Udder Joy!

Not too long ago, my lovely wife found a beauty product (a body cream) that she really fell in love with while shopping at The Lacy.  The Lacy is a tasteful and upscale antique/home décor and clothing store that we like in Lenoir City Tennessee.  This is a story of one thing leading to another…

FYI… The Lacy is located at 105 North A Street.  Their website is found at http://thelacy.net.  They are on Facebook too at https://www.facebook.com/thelacylenoircity/.  

But this posting isn’t about The Lacy.  Instead it’s about that body cream and our discoveries related to that product.  

My better half went on-line and discovered that her cream was a local product and that the farm where it’s produced was open for visitors by appointment.  She loves farms and farm critters…and this farm has goats, one of her favorite animals!  It wasn’t long before we hit the back roads in Monroe County for a visit to Udder Joy Farms…

Goats’ aside, this Australian cattle dog was a major plus during our visit!  Sadie loves people and she loves, loves, loves attention… 

It’s hard to believe that Sadie actually does any work around Udder Joy Farms.  This is her favorite position if you’re just standing in one place!  Belly rub anyone??

FYI…Sadie does help herd Udder Joy’s goats.  At times she has to herd these guinea fowl too.  My mother had some of these dumb birds when she was living in the country in southern Michigan.  They’ll ‘bark’ at anything that’s out of place.  I remember one time at my mother’s house when they spent the day ‘barking’ at a dead raccoon in the road!  They do have one excellent trait though...they eat all the fleas, ticks and insect varmints they can find!

Love this photo of Sadie!  It’s her cross-eyed ‘please love me’ look… Just pitiful!

…and then of course, there are the goats!  They all have names but this is the only one who paid much attention to me…This is the farms namesake! Udder Joy!

By now you might have guessed that Udder Joy Farms’ beauty products are mostly based on goat milk…and you’d be right.  In addition to the body creams, they produce soaps, scrubs and lip balm.

…another photo of yours truly with his goat admirer.  Or did she just like the salt on my hands?   

For obvious reasons, the male goats (bucks) are kept separated from the females (does).  Otherwise there would be baby goats (kids) all over the place all the time! 

This is Diego and he has an ‘attitude’.  He spends his days gazing over the fence at the ladies and fantasizing.  He’s one of the lucky kids who wasn’t castrated…or he was be a neutered ‘wether’.  His dad was a real stud too!

Here a few of Diego’s ladies.  There is another buck in the herd…but the last time the boys escaped and mingled with the ladies, all but one of the resulting kids looked just like Diego!

This is Suzanne Harper, one half of Udder Joy’s entrepreneurial owners.  Her husband Gary works at Mayfield Dairy down by Athens Tennessee.

The Harper family (Suzanne, Gary, 2 teenage boys, 13 goats, 3 dogs, 3 ducks and 2 cats), moved to East Tennessee from the Sierra Nevada foothills near Fresno California.  While they loved their small self-reliant community in California, state government's over-regulation regarding water rights and vehicles…not to mention the cost of living…led to their happy decision to move to their new family farm near Madisonville Tennessee.  It was a challenging move…leaving all of their friends and their family farm behind, but it has been worth it.

Here are 3 of the products that Laurie has purchased from Udder Joy Farms…all of which she really loves!  At the back are 2 bottles of Goat Milk Body Cream.  The one at the left is the Orange Cedarwood version with the Patchouli Lime version on the right. Loves them!  She is crazy about that jar of Rosemary Mint Sugar Scrub in the front of the photo too! Makes her facial skin feel like a new born baby!

In addition to drinking the goat milk, Udder Joy Farms also uses their goat milk to make a line of 20 different soaps.   They sell them on-line as well as in their various retail outlets.  Examples range from Peppermint Cedarwood to Simply Charcoal, Raw Oats and Honey, to Rosemary Mint and Avocado Storm.

FYI…all of Udder Joy Farm’s products are made in small handmade batches.  They never use pre-made bases or powdered goat milk. Plus, all of the ingredients are listed on the products. No guessing if allergies are an issue.

To find retail outlets that carry Udder Joy Farm’s products, just go to https://www.udderjoyfarms.com/retail-locations.

Udder Joy Farms also sells their excess goats.  However, they consider those transactions to be an adoption more than a sale!  They prefer to sell quality breeding animals to help others begin their herds.  A good home is their primary concern.  It you want to buy a goat, you will need to submit a contact form in advance…Plus, a farm inspection is also required before a sale.

I can’t think of anything cuter to end this post with!  This sweet baby, a recent surprise arrival, is named Little Miss Friday.  Any guesses who the daddy buck was?!  Little Miss Friday was one day old when this photo was taken.

We’ve visited Udder Joy Farms twice now… Sadie and the goats are a prime attraction and Suzanne’s “OK” too.  If you’d like to learn more about Udder Joy Farms and/or its products, they do welcome visitors at specific times.

For more information, you can go to Udder Joy Farm’s Facebook site at https://www.facebook.com/udderjoyfarms/, their website at https://www.udderjoyfarms.com/, or their Twitter site at https://twitter.com/udderjoyfarms.    

Fear not Sadie…we will be back to give you some more belly rubs!

Just click on any of the photos to enlarge them… 
Plus...Thank you Suzanne!

Thanks for stopping by to see what we’ve been up to!

Take Care, Big Daddy Dave