Goat Fund Us: Update #49

Hi everyone,

Initially I had planned to write an update about the farm being closed, how our season was and how great it felt celebrating our 40th anniversary together with you. But that will be in a later update.

Unfortunately, I’m about to share some sad news with you as our closing this year was overshadowed by a big loss of a very special farm resident. With a heavy heart and lots of tears we had to say goodbye to our senior farm cat Leo ”the Lion”.

photo of goat with baby

Goat Fund Us: Update #47

Hello everyone,

The farm is now already open for almost three months and everything is in full swing. While the farm is not as busy as other seasons, the care of the animals and the work around the farm keeps us all very busy.
Today we like to share some updates from the animals and news from around the farm. This year marks our 40th farm anniversary – this might sound like a small feat to some – but the start of this precious farm, building it up, always making changes and improvements and the constant effort and determination, care and dedication, tears and love to keep it going are a testament to what this little great place means to all of us. This is a celebration of building and maintaining something special together.

photo of goat on bosu ball

Goat Fund Us: Update #46

Hello everyone,

Our season has started and the farm has been open for more than a month – time simply flies. People often ask “how is it going?” and there is no easy answer to this. It is going “a lot” but the important thing is that we are always going forward. Each year getting this precious place ready for opening seems like a tremendously big undertaking, a tall mountain to climb with many steep steps just before the summit, but the team – strong with experienced staff and reinforced by new very motivated staff – stood together and we got there.
It felt great to open up, the first few days always feel like welcoming old familiar faces back and swapping stories about the past months. It was really awesome to see you all again.
There are several new things at the farm, but I’ll tell you about those next time.

I would like to use this update to tell you about Rosie’s adventures and accomplishments in 2024. This month Rosie is going to turn four and for me that is a great opportunity to look back at her eventful year.

Photo of goat in red coat

Goat Fund Us: Update #44

Hello again everyone,

In my last update and the look back onto 2023 I didn’t tell you anything about Rosie’s year and this is very unusual for my stories – A year without Rosie? By now, I can’t even imagine my life without Rosie: this unique, smart and strong, true and loyal, curious and brave little girl who proves over and over again that she is ready to master all of life’s challenges makes my life complete.

photo of mum goat with her baby climbing on her back

Goat Fund Us: Update #42

Hello everyone,

I hope you all had a good start into the summer and that it will be a fun and relaxing time for all of us.
The farm has been just buzzing and hopefully this buzz will just keep going the entire summer: lots of visitors – locals and tourists of any age groups and background, new volunteers and new staff – lots of learning and teaching and our daily spiel through all the animal care and always doing our absolute best for them.

This story I’m going to tell you today is a little different than most of the others because it still has an open end. We don’t know yet where it’s going to lead and I can only keep going on and fill this uncertainty with hope. Never give up hope!

photo of mother goat with babies

Goat Fund Us: Update #41

Hello everyone,
Our farm season has started over a month ago and as every year it seemed an impossibly big task to get everything ready for opening, but the team put in A LOT of hours and together we managed it all. And all this hard work and stress was entirely worth it: Being open to the public again, welcoming back many of our regular visitors and meeting new animal lovers – and in general just being able to witness how everyone has a “goat” time at the farm has simply been a very rewarding experience for us. Thank you.

photo of potbelly pig

Goodbye Maple

Our year seemed to be off to a smooth start but then last week life just took a very unexpected turn that left us with a broken heart and a huge hole in our midst: Sadly and very suddenly we had to say goodbye to our pig Maple and everyone here is truly feeling his absence and mourning this loss.

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