This weekend we will be at the Augusta Expo’s Semi-Annual Arts and Craft Show! We will be debuting soap from our new soap molds and will have our new Cedar Goat Milk Soap, so there are lots of reasons to come out!
Saturday March 8th from 9am – 5pm
Sunday March 9th from 10am – 4pm
277 Expo Rd. Fishersville, VA 22939
As most of you know by now we are introducing a new soap each month in 2014. For March I am so excited to introduce our Cedarwood Goat Milk Soap!!
While planning the expansion of our soap line I knew I wanted to add some soaps that would appeal more to our male customers. We have many “gender neutral” soaps, but I wanted something that could be considered “manly.” With essential oils the wood scents are about as manly as it gets. This soap has the hardy deep smell of fresh cut cedar… I’m a fan.
Our cedarwood goat milk soap is made with the essential oil of Virginia Cedarwood (of course). This particular soap uses the castile recipe. In our house the castile is our “all purpose” soap. We use it as shampoo, for shaving, to wash our hands and bodies… everything. We decided to do the cedarwood with this recipe so it can be a nice all purpose bar for men.
While we made this soap to give our male customers more options it’s still a great bar for everyone. The cedarwood essential oil is said to have many benefits, including acting as an antiseptic, anti-flamatory, antispasmodic, astringent, insecticide, fungicide, and the list goes on. To read more about the benefits that studies have shown to be associated with cedarwood visit this article.
Our Cedarwood Goat Milk Soap now is available on our website!
The countdown is on! Spring is a little over a month away, the girls only have 4 more weeks until their due dates, and we only have 3 more weeks until the baby chicks arrive in the mail. It wont be long before we have precious baby goats and chicks hopping around. I can’t wait!!
We got around 10 inches of snow, sleet, and ice last week. There is still quite a bit of it on the ground, even after several days of mild temperatures. The bad weather has halted our construction projects, but I’m hoping to get the chicken coop started (and maybe finished… who knows) this weekend. The chicken coop is going in the pasture and I was hoping to have it done by this point in the girls’ pregnancies because I don’t want to cause them any sort of stress this close to their due dates… but there is only so much that you can do. We also apparently underestimated the amount of hay we needed when ordering last August and only have about a 2-3 week supply left. So, this weekend will also be spent searching out hay.
Overall it’s been a pretty uneventful week. That’s what happens when you are trapped in your house for most of it!
We will be at the My Courthouse Market today from 3-7pm! I am really looking forward to seeing everyone.
As many of you know every month this year we will be introducing a new soap! Some of these are seasonal, some permanent additions, and others are soaps we are testing out. Check back the first of each month to see what new goat milk soap we are introducing. This month we are so excited to finally introduce our Coffee Goat Milk Soap! Isn’t it pretty?
We have been working on this soap recipe for a long while. It was actually one of the first recipes we played with. We handed it out to the soap testers and they loved it, but Kevin wanted to make changes, so he did. We handed out the new soap and people still preferred the first one… but Kevin was not convinced and went on trying to perfect the recipe. Months past and we kept getting requests for our original coffee soap. There were times when we would have 3 or 4 requests a week. I was finally able to convince Kevin that he got it right the first time! We started working on building our stock and here we are… Finally introducing our Coffee Goat Milk Soap… The first recipe!
This soap has a light sweet smell (more of a sweet cream scent than a coffee scent). Our coffee soap is made with coffee infused oil (prepared by us), espresso, natural oils, and of course raw goat milk. The soap includes finely ground coffee beans throughout making it a strong exfoliant. We are not recommending it for those with sensitive skin because of it’s high exfoliating factor. It was a favorite soap our testers and hopefully it will become one of ours.
To purchase this, or any of our soaps, visit our website
It was a cold day on The Freckled Farm yesterday… as it was for most of the country. Monday and Tuesday night we closed the animals up in the barn and coop. Normally we leave the doors open to the pasture and run, but we wanted to prevent any wind from getting to the animals and to allow the deep bedding to do it’s job. The animals faired well through the cold weather, although there were points when I was working in the pasture that I could see the goats shivering. They ended up spending the entire day in the barn, only coming out when I was doing farm chores. We have one chicken though who decided that she wanted to molt late in the season and still hasn’t gotten all of her feathers back. I have worried about her quite a bit, but she seems to be doing fine.
On Tuesday Kevin went out to feed the animals around 5:30am and the temperatures were in the negatives with the wind chill. He closed everyone back up after they were done eating and I went and let everyone out once the sun came up. I had to go out several times during the day to remove the ice from the water buckets. This is my least favorite winter chore. We thought about getting heated buckets, but the breeder of Tina and Hillary told us to avoid them because they lower the goat’s resistance to cold, and if the bucket should break or the electricity go out the cold water could end up hurting the goats. So I trek out the barn and coop every couple of hours to remove the layer of ice that has formed on the water and add warm water. Last year there were only a few days that we really had to fight ice in the water buckets. If we lived in an area that is as cold as what we are dealing with right now all the time I might have consider investing in something else to combat the problem!
In other news, today is our first day at My Courthouse Market in Goochland, VA. This is an INDOOR farmers market located inside the YMCA in Goochland Courthouse. The market runs from 3pm-7pm. Come and visit us!
Last week, while introducing our Rosewood Salt Soap, I said that we have a lot of great things in store for this year. I thought I would take a moment to share some of the exciting things that we are expecting to happen in 2014…
The most exciting thing we have coming up are the additions to our soap line. We will be introducing a new goat milk soap every month! This month it was the Rosewood Salt goat milk soap. Next month it will be our coffee soap. Some of these soaps will become permanent scents in our line, while others will be seasonal. Make sure you check back, follow us on facebook, or subscribe to our blog, so you don’t miss out on one of our amazing new scent.
We will be offering a soap to represent each season. These soaps will only be available during the season in which they represent. If you become a fan of that scent you will need to stock up before the season is over or wait for it to come back next year!
We will be at lots of craft shows and farmers markets throughout the year. Visit our “Where to Buy” page to see where you can find us.
We will be adding several non-soap items to our line, including bath teas, bath bombs, scrubs, and more. We will be testing out new products at craft shows and farmers markets, and the most successful products will make it to the website.
As far as the farm goes we will be adding baby goats, our first buck (no more drive-by breedings for us!), more chickens, an additional coop, new pastures, expanding our garden, and so much more!
We have so many exciting things in store this year and we can’t wait to share it with all of you!
The Freckled Farm Soap Company has been added to the My Courthouse Market in Goochland, VA! This is an indoor farmer’s market through the winter and takes place on Wednesdays January – April. We will be there every Wednesday except March 19th, which is the week of the goats’ due dates. We will be offering our goat milk soap as well as other natural skin care products as they join our line! Hope to see you there!
Our very first show is coming up this weekend and we are extremely excited! It’s at Goochland High School, the school where I taught for 4 years, and it supports All Night Graduation, an event for graduating seniors to give them a safe place to celebrate with their friends. Come out and see us and buy some goat milk soap!!
November 9, 2012
8am-2pm
Goochland High School
3250 River Road West, Goochland, VA 23063
The Freckled Farm Soap Company makes handmade goat milk soaps. Our body care products are all natural and made with love. For more information about our products please visit our website: www.thefreckledfarmsoapcompany.com