Mabie's Farm

Nestled between Gilroy's garlic and Morgan Hill's mushrooms, lies the land of milk and honey.  Our farm raises ADGA registered Nubian Dairy Goats and is home to European Honey Bees.  We offer luxurious goat milk soaps and lotions, local honey, blacksmithing, and a variety of other crafts.

Our bottlefed babies grow up to be well-adjusted beauties.  We breed for high-well attached udders, good dairy quality, milk production, correctness of form, and lovable temperaments.

                                                                                     Goat Milk Soaps and Lotions are naturally soothing to the skin.  The soaps are not drying and do not leave a residue, making them perfect for people with sensitive skin.

Check out the latest!

1/26/12 - Merry kids - more Triplets!                  Merry was not to be outdone by her sister this year.  This afternoon she gave birth to 2 girls and 1 boy.  Another problem free kidding with mom and babies doing great!

1/21/12 - Quinn kids - Triplets!                           Quinn has maintained her status as the first one to kid.  She started off our season with 3 beautiful kids - 2 girls and 1 boy.  Mom and babies are doing well.  Watch our Kidding Around page for pictures and more details!

1/17/12 - Bucks For Sale                                     It has been with a heavy heart that we have looked carefully at our breeding program and came to the conclusion that it was time for our bucks, Tecate and Flash, to move on.  They are great guys that are far more handlable than many bucks I have seen.  They are also very friendly.  Tecate was our first buck, and definately made the experience a positive one.  Flash is Tecate's son and has shown great promise with the amazing kids he produced last year.  For more information on these guys, check out our Goats - For Sale page and our Bucks page.

12/27/11 - Balloon Art!                                        I am finally offering my hobby for hire.  I have created balloon flora and fauna for years and have had numerous friends and friends of friends want to hire me for parties.  With 17 years of experience with environmental education, I have worked with children in a presentation and one-on-one role.  I am looking forward to sharing my art with kids of all ages.  Check out our new page for details and pricing!

12/15/11 - Craft Show Season Break                 Phew!  What a busy season!  We did shows almost every weekend and met a lot of great people.  If you didn't have a chance to catch us at the shows, we will be gearing up again in February.  Stay tuned for show posting!

11/3/11 - Busy Farm!                                          We rarely are still on our little farm.  I finished the summer harvest just in time for our first cold spell and a little more rain.  We have bred our goats, mended shelters, and are training the dog.  Yeti is now almost 70 pounds of puppy energy.  She loves to play, though I don't think the goats and chickens appreciate it.  Yeti has already alerted us to coyotes in the area and a possum going through the pasture. 

8/13/11 - Yeti sighting on our farm!                The loss of our dog, Biscut, still cuts deep in our hearts.  She was a great companion and did a great job protecting our animals.  Realizing we still needed help, we did extensive research to find our next dog.  We recently brought our Great Pyrenees puppy, Yeti, home.  She will be a big girl as she already weighed 20 pounds at 8 weeks.  It's been a long time since I've trained a puppy and this is a new experience for my husband and son.  Yeti has an independent streak, but is training well.  She is a real sweetie and is learning about goats, chickens, and cats.

6/24/11 - Time flies                                             How quickly the year is going!  We retained three kids this year: Lavochkin, Dumpling (Aina), and Valentino.  They are growing quickly.  Airmid is doing well with Caleb.  She will be his showmanship goat this year.  Also, our foster goat, Twinkle, has gone off to her new home.  She is adjusting quite well and I have no doubt will soon establish her place as boss.

4/27/11 - Goliath Passes                                    Last year Goliath was earned the record for being the biggest kid.  Unfortunately he was also born with a couple of genetic defects.  He underwent surgery this morning to resolve a retained testicle.  This would enable him to live with the ladies and enable us to work with him more.  He was being trained to be a pack goat.  Unfortunately complications during surgery can be unpredictable.  We know our vet did her best, but it appears he may have had more going on genetically than any of us realized.  He was a real sweet guy.

4/6/11 - 1st Annual Spring Boutique this weekend (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from 10 am to 4pm)!                                                Come see the goats, watch Chris work the forge, taste some honey, or see what other creations we have been making.  Many of our customers have commented that they would like to see the farm, so we are holding our first boutique and open house. 

Find us at 1955 Church Ave in San Martin.

From 101, take San Martin Ave exit and turn east (southbound, turn left and northbound will turn right).  At the first stop sign (Foothill), turn right.  At the next stop sign (Church), turn left.  Hope to see everyone there!

3/27/11- A Sunny Day?                                        March has been a bit wet here.  Today the sun came out which finally allowed us to take some new pictures of some of the kids.  We are looking forward to drying out a little this week.  More rain is predicted for next weekend.

3/7/11 - Kidding Season Officially Over and New Foster Kid                                                    On March 1st, Autumn kidded with a single doeling.  On March 5th, we took in a little doeling with a sad start.  She is mostly Boer (meat goat) and was rejected by her mother.  Her owner was unwilling to raise her and left her to starve.  Concerned neighbors asked for the baby and rescued her.  As they did not have goats, they asked if we could take her.  We do not take in many animals due to the costs of time and money, though we felt we could help this little girl.  She was 3.95#s when we brought her home and has already gained a half a pound.

2/26/11 - Biscut, our dog, passes and snow in San Martin!                                                            Biscut's health has been declining and over the last month her condition worsened quickly.  Today we had her put down in the presence of her loving family.  She has been with me for 16 years.  Our son has not known life without her.  Upon returning home, it began to snow.  Snow is exceedingly rare here.  It is starting to stick which will make a mess of the roads.  Good night to stay in.

2/16/11 - Quinn has Valentine's Day Kids.  Still waiting for Autumn...

2/3/11 - We've got babies!                                   Merry kicked off our kidding season with 1 boy and 1 girl.  Kaitlyn and Raven soon followed.  For more details, check out our kidding page.

1/16/11 - Bees going MIA  & Elegant Corner closes                                                                  We have been very lucky with our bees up to this point.  With the weather being a bit warmer the last few days, we were able to peek in the hives.  We had been concerned about one of our hives because we hadn't seen much activity lately.  Unfortunately our fears were confirmed and it appears the ladies looked for housing elsewhere.  We'll have to put the vacancy sign out in front of the hive entrance (and a little bee lure in the hive).  Goats are easier to fence than bees.

We had many of our products at Elegant Corner in San Jose, but unfortunately the store closed.  We will be looking for new venues to offer our array of products.

12/23/10 - Anise, our herd matriarch, passes                                                                   Over the past couple days, Anise wasn't as steady on her feet as usual.  After working closely with her vet and trying everything possible, her condition continued to deteriorate and she was no longer able to get up or even right herself if she was on her side.  The cause of her weakness and inability to feel pain was due to a brain tumor.  There was no cure or treatment.  The decision to have her put down was a heart wrenching one for us.  We stayed with her these past few days, righting her if she fell on her side, lifting her and holding her if she wanted to stand.  We were with her to the end, holding her as she took her last breath.  She is deeply missed by us and the other goats (especially Autumn).

11/27/10 - Honey and Lotions at Elegant Corner!                                                                 Our honey and lotions are at the store and ready for holiday gift giving.  Due to cold, rainy weather, we do not have any more holiday boutiques this year.

11/16/10 - Honey Collected and Pedigrees added to Web-Site!                                           We collected honey from the hives over the weekend from 2 supers.  Our little girls did well this year.  I will be busy bottling and getting the honey to Elegant Corner in San Jose for sale.   Also, links to the official ADGA pedigrees were added for our breeding stock.  Check out your favorites!

10/29/10 - Buck pictures updated.                   Morgan and Flash's pictures have been updated.  I also updated BC's picture (cat) and Biscut's story.  Biscut, our dog, is still doing well.

 9/28/10 - Busy Summer!                                    Wow!  The summer is gone.  Caleb showed pigs and goats at the fair this year.  Our pigs were sent in to the wrong weight classes (the fair misposted), but he did take 6th in showmanship out of 18!  We were really proud.  We were also really glad to process one of the pigs.  VERY tasty!  Our goatie girls did okay.  Of course something ripped through the herd right before fair.  They were checked by the vet before we even left our property and cleared to go, but were not in as good of condition as they usually are.  We are looking forward to trying again next year with the goats.  As for pigs, we will purchase a pig at fair from another 4-Her.  We are goat people, dog people, chicken people (even a few other animals), but not pig raising people.

 Breeding has begun.  So we will be expecting our first babies in mid to late January.  I will be posting the breeding schedule soon on 'Kidding Around'.

5/8/10 - Pictures of the new babies up and one buckling for sale                                          As mentioned below, we will be selling Autumn's little guy.  He is really cute and you'll have to check out his picture.  He's smiling.  The pictures of his sister are finally up too.  Both kids are growing fast and Autumn is has already surpassed some of her herd mates in daily milk production.

Next we are hoping to finish putting in the garden, finish off the pigs, etc.  But tomorrow is Mother's Day (happy Mother's Day to all the moms), so the ladies and I are going to relax a little (aside from milking and feeding babies).

5/1/10 - Autumn kids and pigs growing fast       Autumn FINALLY kidded (and on her birthday!).  Apparently she was taking lessons from Quinn, who also kidded late this year.  And, for the first time in over three years, Autumn had a girl!  She had twins, 1 girl, 1 boy.  We are retaining the girl, however the beautiful spotted boy is for sale.  Pictures will be coming soon.  

Our son (and we) are heavily involved in 4-H.  The one project that he is in that we do not lead is pigs.  We now have 2 Hampshire pigs we are raising for fair.  One will be sold and the other will be for family consumption.  Stay tuned for information on our county fair.  We'd love for a tasty pig to go to a good refrigerator/ freezer!  They get lots of whey from cheese making.

3/29/10 - Last baby sold!                                         The last of our babies so far has sold.  We are just waiting on Autumn to kid.  We will be keeping a girl from her.  Of course the past several years, she's given us either twin boys, or triplet boys....

3/20/10 - Babies heading home                   Three of our babies when to their new homes today.  Lando and Obi Wan will be great pets, while Banshee apparently is still living up to her name.  We wish the babies and their new families the best.  We have two more babies who will be going to their new home soon and one baby, Barriss left for sale.

3/13/10 - Babies are getting ready to go home The babies are down to one feeding a day and are getting ready to go to their new homes.  We are keeping Caillech and Goliath, so we will still be watching babies grow.  Barriss may be staying too since we've had no offers on her despite her great conformation.  Autumn is still due to give birth next month and is getting very wide.  She does not have much patience with the little ones right now.  Due to her size, we are guessing triplets, though she has surprised us before!

2/22/10 - Pantheacon a success!   This was our second year as a vendor at this event.  We sold our lotions and soaps, as well as jewelry and other farm crafts.  Chris enoyed a class on wheat weaving which is helping to hone his skills.  Look for his wheat weaving creations this coming fall! 

1/25/2010 - Babies being sold.  Three of our babies will be moving to their new homes after they start weaning.  We are both excited and sad.  All of the babies are adorable and though seeing them leave will be bitterweet, they are going to great homes!  There are a few babies left, so check out the For Sale page.

1/2/2010 - New babies are being born!  Merry started the show with Raven close behind.  To check out the kidding stories, check out our new Kidding Around page!

The results are coming in from the ADGA conference.  Though we were unable to attend this year (it was in New York), we did send in our amateur Mozzarella cheese.  For the second year in a row, we took first place!

We have started breeding for our 2010 babies and are expecting our first few in January.  The waiting list is filling up fast, so email us soon if you would like to be on the list.  This is especially important if you are interested in a buckling.  All male kids will be castrated at one week if there is no response for a buck.