Soap - Dairy Goats - Produce
Aja-Sammati Farm is a small family farm in the foothills of Northern California, in the foothills of beautiful Mount Lassen. We raise purebred and grade Nubian dairy goats, handcraft goat milk soap, and grow heirloom vegetables.
Our goats are raised with production and improving breed quality in mind. We love the fun-loving and often comical personalities of goats...but we also expect them to be good milking stock. Our does make excellent family milkers and 4-H projects. We expect all of our does to provide us with wholesome, fresh milk for at least 305 days- 10 full months. Some of them would happily milk longer if we let them. We use our milk for drinking, cooking, cheesemaking, and of course as the most important ingredient in our handcrafted soap.
Our soap is handcrafted in small batches, using the best ingredients we can find. The milk we use in our soap starts with one of us milking a goat- no powdered goat milk here! Also unlike some hand made soap, ours contains loads of more 'exotic' skin nourishing oils and butters. When our bars contain shea or cocoa butter, for instance, it isn't a little bit added to 'enrich' the soap; it is usually at least a full pound for a seven pound batch of oils. Our supplies are purchased as much as possible from small businesses, especially those which are family run and local.
Our produce is grown using our own composted fertilizer and as few chemicals as possible. We are believers in 'slow food'- food that is bought from the farmer that grows it, in season. We will never seek to be certified organic, even though we choose a more organic production style. We try to practice very wholesome farming methods, such as using the goat bedding to mulch the garden and make rich compost, or feeding the chickens whey leftover from cheesemaking. Farmers are the unappreciated backbone of America- we try to always choose local farmers over corporations.
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Soap - Dairy Goats - Produce