My name is Abbey and my husband is Guy. Guy grew up with dairy goats and has loved milking goats and making cheese from a very young age. For over 15 years, we both worked at Goatsbeard Farm. There, we learned a lot about tending the goats and making many kinds of delicious goat cheese. We worked very closely with Ken and Jenn Muno. We continued to be a part of Goatsbeard Farm until they ceased dairy operations in 2021. As many of you remember, Goatsbeard Farm cheese was enjoyed by many people in Mid-Missouri!

We now have our own herd of wonderful goats that we milk daily. We have been busy turning that milk into delicious goat cheese to share with family and friends. We have the extraordinary opportunity to move our herd to Goatsbeard Farm, utilizing the land and facilities to resume making and selling goat cheese in Mid-Missouri!!! Our dream is to provide goat cheese to customers at the Columbia Farmer’s Market and local restaurants and grocery stores. Please support us in bringing goat cheese back to Mid-Missouri!!

Your donation will help purchase equipment in order to resume cheese making at Goatsbeard Farm. Donations of any size are greatly appreciated!! Make sure you check out the wonderful YouTube video.

Here’s an example of what your donation could mean to us:

Some of the big-ticket items include:

$21,300 - Pasteurizer and chart recorder for pasteurizing milk to make different kinds of goat cheese

$5,000 - Personnel costs for hiring help

$3,500 - Fencing supplies/equipment to repair and maintain pastures

$2,000 - Cooling units and CoolBot for drying and aging the cheeses

$1,079 - Reach-in refrigerator for storing packaged cheese and ingredients

$1,279 - Reach-in freezer for storing ingredients and cheese culture

$600 - Display case for Farmer’s Market

$330 - Packaging for 2,000 tubs of chevre cheese

$200 - Scale for weighing cheese

$175 - Steam cleaner + fiber cloths for sanitizing

$150 - Movable hay feeders for goats or milk tubing for moving milk from goat to pasteurizer

$100 - Ingredients for 5 different flavors of cheese

$50 - Hair nets and white aprons for packaging/cheesemaking

$25 - Nitrile gloves for milking or food-safe gloves for packaging cheese