Yes!  Soft serve goat's milk ice cream cones. Only at Fairview Farm Goat Dairy. Come try one this Sunday or Monday, 10-4, at the dairy store. Take home a pint, along with cheeses, meat, and yogurts.

Have you heard of anyone else making goat's milk soft serve??? It's creamy and delicious. Perfection. 

Eating Dairy Products Can Make You Smarter!

We knew it!  Dairy products = intelligence.  Yes, a new study found regular consumption of dairy products resulted in better brain function. Test scores improved in direct relation to increased dairy consumption. We knew our customers were smart, now we have the proof!

Click here for the study

It's back!  We've got gelato, our version of goat's milk ice cream, at farmers markets and the farmstand this spring. It's low-fat, and you can pronounce everything that's in it!  Check out a sample, then choose from several delicious flavors made with local ingredients.

WINNER!

We're delighted to announce that our chevre won 1st place at the American Dairy Goat Association's National Cheese Competition!

Dill Skyr took a 2nd, Skyr Dressing & Dip a 2nd, and Farmhouse Herb & Garlic placed 3rd in separate categories.

We thought we were making good cheese--now we're glad to see how it compares nationally to the best in the business.

Click here for the full results.

KPTV Channel 12 visited the farm--Stephanie Kralevich milked our Dulcina, then announced the milk tasted "better than cow," -- click to watch the segment.

Watch Laurie and Stephanie make mini cheesecakes, click on "Steph Cooks with Goat Cheese" on the KPTV site.

You can find us on Facebook now, too! Add us to your list of "Likes."

We're on Living Culture TV! Click here to watch our episode, filmed by Oregon filmmaker, Nate Rafn. Wow, he does a great job!

Skyr is here!

Grab the longboats, it's here! We've begun making Skyr. Skyr (rhymes with "ear") is a traditional Scandinavian cheese, a "Viking cheese" that is as old as the 800's. It is mentioned in the Icelandic Sagas, and endured for centuries. Icelanders relied on it to survive climate change during the "little Ice Age" of the 1300s.It faded from popularity as pressed cheeses were introduced. Today it's still made in Iceland and Norway. And, now in Dallas, Oregon!

Laurie was searching for a Scandinavian-style cheese and re-discovered this delicious dairy treat. It is creamy like ice cream (but doesn't melt) and thick and tangy like sour cream, but its simply goat's milk---that spreads or spoons. Skyr with berries (and a bit of sugar or honey) is fantastic.

Best of all, Skyr is full of active cultures, the probiotics we need to boost immunity, and eliminate anxiety and depression.

It's been called the "Ben & Jerry's of the Middle Ages," and we agree. We don't store it in skin bags, like they did in the "good old days" but it's just as tangy, tart, and healthy as it was long ago.

You'll want to try some--see us at the farmers markets for samples, or pick some up at New Seasons Progress Ridge in Portland, Roths Vista store in Salem, or Market of Choice throughout Oregon. You might think it tastes a bit like Valhalla . . .

Its an easy choice to make! Skyr is a delicious substitute

for mayonnaise or butter and is a healthy source of protein

and calcium.

Goats milk skyr and chevre have approximately the same nutritional content per serving, but skyr contains several active probiotic cultures. (Sources: American Dairy Goat Assoc., USDA, commercial labels.)

Nothing is as delicious as goat milk cheese!

Meet us at the farmers markets and taste our farmstead chevre, plain or flavored with herbs. It's delicious and healthy for you.

We've been approved by the

Animal Welfare Institute

program as a farm that engages in humane animal agricultural practices. We follow the Animal Welfare Institute's rigorous guidelines for healthy, safe, environmentally responsible and humanely raised livestock. We just had our annual inspection and were granted approval again.

Learn more about them at:

www.AnimalWelfareApproved.org

Cynthian

Great News!  You can now enjoy our nutritious, gently-pasteurized local goat's milk in quart bottles. We have plenty at the farmstand as well as every farmers market we attend, where we're happy to pass out samples.

You can also try our fantastic new drinkable Yogurt and Vanilla Yogurt. They are sublime!  Healthy, too.

As you drink our milk and yogurts, remember, last week it was pasture and sunshine.  That fresh, that local.  



You can find our products at:

Farmers Markets

• Salem Public Market on Saturdays from 8:30 until 2. It's on 12th Street & Rural.
• Salem Saturday Market
• Corvallis Wednesday Market
• Beaverton Farmers Market (Saturdays)
• Polk County Bounty Market in Dallas on Thursday afternoons
  

Stores

• Market of Choice stores in Portland, West Linn, Corvallis, Eugene and Ashland
  
• Roth's Vista store in Salem
  

• New Seasons, Portland stores: Progress Ridge, Seven Corners  & Hawthorne 
  

• Harvest Fresh Market in McMinnville
• NEW!  Food Front in Portland's Pearl district and Hillsdale

The Dairy

You can shop at the dairy farmstand in our driveway, and soon to open, the Dairy Store, open Sundays & Mondays, 10 till 4. You'll be able to taste cheeses and gelato, pick out frozen cuts of meat, wave to the cheesemaker at work and watch the goats doing whatever goats want to do.

Sorry, we don't ship cheese. We feel supporting local markets is important, so suggest you buy from a cheesemaker near you rather than us sending it across the country. Also, consider buying locally-made rather than imported cheese as a vital way to keep our economy strong, too.  European countries with economic problems are literally dumping cheese on the US market because they cannot do that to other EU member countries. Small-scale cheesemakers in the US cannot compete with subsidized imported cheese.

                                                                            (David Ashton photo)

To Answer Your Questions:

For health reasons we turned to a high protein diet 15 years ago, which led us to raising and selling grass-fed beef, pigs, pastured poultry, and eggs. In 2006 we moved to the Willamette Valley and started Fairview Farm Goat Dairy continuing our goal of producing healthy foods.

A free-lance writer and historian, after training as a Nutritional Therapist (NTA), Laurie turned to making goat cheese. Terry devotes his efforts to maintaining a natural biodynamic system on the farm through soil building and rotational grazing. Brian, a Dallas High School student, is responsible for the laying hens and other chores.

Our animals and products are gluten free--we don't even feed wheat to the livestock. We do not feed corn or soy to the goats. Our goats' milk contains no A1 casein protein, the irritant most people react to in cow's milk. We pasteurize the milk slowly at 145-degrees, the gentlest process allowed. We use no preservatives in our products.

The goats graze on certified organic pasture and also eat certified organic alfalfa which is nutrient-dense and luscious, grown in the Klamath River Basin by the Johnson family. During milking, the does munch on a mix we have blended for us by the Royle family at Union Point Feed Mill, containing oats, peas, pumpkin seeds, and minerals. They also nibble on nutritional yeast and kelp. We never use chemical parasiticides like Ivermectin, finding that mineral balance and browse keep them healthy.

We've been inspected and approved by the Animal Welfare Institute program for the past 3 years. AWA has the highest standards in the nation. Our pastures are certified organic by Oregon Tilth. Our dairy and creamery are licensed by the Oregon Department of Agriculture. Milk is tested monthly and ODA and FDA inspect regularly.

"Let food be thy medicine" Hippocrates

The Portland Oregonian featured our Berry Skyr -- click here for the article



 2012 KIDS

Photos below are of our Class of 2012 exploring the outdoors for the first time, just ahead of a storm on February 28. They are about 2 weeks old.

Kidding is finally over for 2012. Whew, it was a fast-paced six weeks. We ended up with 102 baby goats, of course we couldn't keep them all, but lots of people are now new goat owners.



Portland Monthly Picks Best Cheese Plates: Fairview Farm's

cheese is included--at the Sapphire Hotel.  Yaaay!

We're proud to be included in the Weston A. Price Foundation's 2012 Shopping Guide. Fairview Farm is listed under the "Best" category for aged cheeses.  Check out the WAPF's website and learn more about their nutrition education efforts. And, if you're looking for interesting history to read, get a copy of Dr. Price's book, which provides the core message for the Foundation. Published in 1939, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration is a fascinating and eye-opening study of the effects industrial diet has on the body. 

No Preservatives!

Our cheeses have no preservatives--eat them while they are at their nutritional peak. Fresh cheeses can be frozen, then consumed within a week of defrosting.

Makes you understand why no signs of life appear in some of those dairy products filled with gums, concentrates, powders, and chemicals. We're so used to them, we think fresh dairy products should last a long time -- not at all true!  Wonder Bread will last a long time. And margarine. But our cheese has a lifespan.

So, don't collect cheeses, consume them. Enjoy and be healthy.