Just a little about Thorn Acres. My family and I moved to our small 6 acre farm in 2005. We started out with Rose our very first nubian dairy goat she came to live with us in the cold months of December . Rose gave birth a single beautiful buck "Thorn". He grew to be a huge well feed boy and completed our first "circle of life "on our farm. It was one of the hardest things for my boys and I to do but we took him to a very nice locker plant in Winchester,Kansas and they treated him very nicely to the end. There were many tears that day with our first meat raised by us from bottle to the table. Thorn taught us many things about goats and about life. As we had our very first goat roast my son decided our farm should be named after Thorn since he started it all. So that is how "Thorn Acres" came about.

That following spring 2006 we added more dairy goats, boer meat goats, layer chickens, chickens for meat, two pigs, ducks,turkeys, bucket calves, dogs and cats. We decided after many times being head butted by the calves we did not want to raise cows just a bucket calf here and there. We only raise two feeder pigs a year now as they are not my favorites. We use them for plowing up the new garden spots making us wonderful compost and then they hit the freezer. I do not get close to pigs anymore. We love to watch the ducks, turkeys and chickens feeding on bugs and grasses during the spring they are some of my favorite things. We now have 14 head of goats both dairy and meat. We have 4 ready to kid in March which I will post pictures then.

Then on to our CSA: This is what I will be using this blog for. My daughter (17) will be posting our newsletter for the CSA on here. We will put in recipes, pictures and what is in your CSA on this blog. I will try very hard to keep you up on the most up to date progress of the farm.

We will be adding a bee hive to help out the garden and fruit trees so I can get the best produce to my shareholders. It will be a new learning project for us so there will much posted on it. I will share all we do so you will feel like a part of the farm.