The Story of "Troll Bridge Farm"
Lisa was brought up on a dairy farm and has wished for an opportunity to go back into the field of farming for many years. Unfortunately, for most of our married life we've been living in town. Her opportunity came in 2007 when our son Preston decided he wanted to show goats in 4-H. Without having our own farm to house them and the fact that we didn't want something to consume our time, dairy goats were out of the question. And meat goats weren't an option either. So, we were stuck as to what kind of goats for Preston to show.
Then a "happenstance" meeting of the Shaw family in Cedarville, OH and the Greene Goat Farm that they own, introduced us to Angora goats. Over the course of the following week, Lisa researched and found an Angora goat farm nearby & was able to set up a visit. The week after that, we visited the Finger Lakes Fiber Arts Festival in hopes of finding people there willing to help us market the mohair we would shear from these little guys.
Within 2 weeks of our original "meeting" of Angora goats we had put a deposit on a beautiful red wether (castrated male) and a black buck kid. Just a few days following that, another "coincidence" put Lisa in the path of a goat owner wishing to give her pet Angora goat to a good home. Within 2 weeks of that day, we brought to Lisa's parent's farm, Caela, our free Angora doe, and Red Feather, our red wether. As things would happen, we've all fallen for these adorable and personable critters and 4 more goats were added just 6 weeks after the first 2.
In a short 3 month time span, we went from no goats to 5. While many people would think this is insane, we believe strongly that God has led us to this adventure in farming. We look forward to the day when we can keep our animals at our "own place" rather than boarding with Lisa's parents.