Ghost Dog Dairy

The herd began as registered American Alpines and has been crossed with Saanens since 2017, and the goats browse and graze outdoors through the grazing season on the farm's own certified organic hay, pasture, herbs and garlic. Kids are dam raised by their own mothers. The farm runs its own micro dairy, where the milk is fermented, processed and bottled on site as Farm Dog Formula, a lightly fermented raw goats milk tonic for dogs and cats rather than a drinking milk.

The same herbal pastures are rotated into garlic beds, where the farm grows a porcelain hardneck variety called Music that is certified organic by Vermont Organic Farmers, packed by the pound and posted out. The garlic earns its keep twice over, because it is also used against parasite cycles in the herd instead of chemical treatments, and the June scapes go into the sausages. Pigs root and graze rotationally through open fields and the hedges around the farm's native apple trees, fed fresh goats milk and apples, and they turn thick sod into new garlic beds and hayfields as they go. The farm store sells goat meat, garlic scape goat sausages, pasture raised pork shares and small batch goat milk soap made with the farm's own milk.