A Family Goat Dairy Farm. A Remarkable Herd. A Way of Life.
Welcome to Fairy Mountain Farms.
Nestled in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Fairy Mountain Farms is home to our Nubian goats, the people who care for them, and a philosophy of farming built around stewardship, personal attention, and respect for the animals and land entrusted to us.
What happens here is deliberately personal. We know our goats. We care for them every day. We understand their individual personalities, their histories, and their needs. And over the years, the relationship between our animals, their remarkable milk, and the products we could create from it has taken Fairy Mountain Farms in directions we never could have imagined.
This is where our story begins.
Our Home – The Wild & Scenic Kern River Valley
More Than a Farm
Fairy Mountain Farms is built around a simple idea:
Animals thrive when they are treated as individuals rather than inventory.
That belief shapes the way we approach our herd and the way we approach farming itself.
Our Nubian goats aren’t anonymous livestock. They are animals with individual personalities, preferences, relationships, and histories. Caring for a relatively small herd allows us to know them closely and give them the individual attention they deserve.
That connection makes farming more personal. It also makes us more accountable.
We see every day how animal care, nutrition, environment, husbandry, land stewardship, and thoughtful management are interconnected. The quality of what comes from a farm begins with the quality of what happens on the farm.
For us, good stewardship isn’t a program.
It’s the way we farm.
Meet Our Nubian Goats
The Heart of Fairy Mountain Farms
With their distinctive long, pendulous ears, expressive faces, and wonderfully individual personalities, Nubian goats have become inseparable from the identity of Fairy Mountain Farms.
Our herd represents years of thoughtful breeding, husbandry, learning, and daily care. These are animals we know individually—not simply by identification, but by personality.
Some are outgoing. Some are reserved. Some insist on being the center of attention. Others quietly observe everything happening around them.
That individuality is part of what makes life with Nubians so rewarding.
Our responsibility is to provide an environment in which they can thrive through thoughtful nutrition, clean surroundings, appropriate shelter, room to move, preventative care, attentive observation, and respectful daily handling.
Stewardship Comes First
A farm reveals its values in the way it cares for the living things that depend upon it.
At Fairy Mountain Farms, responsible animal stewardship means making decisions with the well-being of our goats in mind. It means observing carefully, handling respectfully, maintaining clean and appropriate living environments, providing quality nutrition and fresh water, and continually improving our husbandry practices as we learn.
It also extends beyond the animals.
The farm itself is part of our responsibility. Land, water, vegetation, wildlife, animals, and people exist within the same system. Thoughtful farming means considering how today’s choices affect tomorrow’s farm.
Use four simple visual principles here:
COMPASSIONATE ANIMAL CARE
Individual attention and respectful handling are part of everyday farm life.
THOUGHTFUL HUSBANDRY
Nutrition, cleanliness, observation, prevention, and consistent care matter.
RESPONSIBLE FARM STEWARDSHIP
We recognize our responsibility to care for the land as well as the animals living upon it.
CONTINUOUS LEARNING
Good farming isn’t static. We keep learning, adapting, and improving.
The Milk That Changed Our Farm
From the Dairy to Something More
Nubian goats are renowned dairy animals, and their milk eventually opened an entirely new chapter for Fairy Mountain Farms.
Like many meaningful farm stories, it began simply.
We started making goat milk soap and goat milk lotion and sharing those products with customers of Fairy Mountain Farms. Over the course of approximately ten years, those foundational products were made, used, evaluated, refined, and improved.
Customer response encouraged us to keep going.
We learned not simply how to put goat milk into a product, but how to build products around it—how formulation, complementary ingredients, texture, process, and craftsmanship could turn an ingredient produced by our own herd into something people genuinely enjoyed using.
Soap led to lotion.
Lotion led to experimentation.
Experimentation led to a much bigger idea.
What if the farm-to-customer connection we valued in agriculture could become a farm-to-skin philosophy for skincare?
That question eventually became Caprine Skincare.