In the Heart of the Columbia River Gorge
real food for real people since 2014
Best Milk You'll Ever Taste!
Even if you think you don't like goat's milk
Not all goat milk is the same, folks.
Seriously, it's not.
We get a kick out of people's surprise that our milk is so sweet & creamy. The breed of goat, attention to the animal's mineral needs & handling of the milk all make a huge difference in the end product.
What's more, when you pasturize milk it smells & tastes, well, dead.
At Spero Homestead we've spent years learning how to keep goats thriving while not using antibiotics or chemical dewormers. We would rather focus on vitamins, herbs & minerals to maintain optimal health in our herd. After all, you consume their milk & we believe it should be the most nutritious milk possible.
Please note that because we sell raw milk we have a contract customers will need to sign before they can purchase from the farm.
If you'd like to try it for yourself...
You Need Goats in Your Life
Kids & Adults Available for Purchase
We breed Mini-Nubians here at Spero Homestead. These are a cross between Nigerian Dwarfs & full size Nubians. We chose this cross because the milk is simply the best around, the long floppy ears are ridiculous & we love all the splashy colors the Nigerians throw into the mix. Great care is taken in breeding our goats for healthy, resiliant animals who produce well & are a pleasure to be around.
Get The Minerals Right
12 years in, and it still comes down to this. When a goat's mineral needs are actually met, most of what conventional goat keeping treats with dewormers, antibiotics, & vet visits simply doesn't show up in the first place. We're not against modern veterinary care.....we just don't think most of the illness goat keepers are taught to expect is inevitable.
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10 Things We Wouldn't Be Without as a Holistic Goat Keeper
Dream a little dream
We met in a little neighborhood in Portland, Oregon, both trying to fit our homesteading aspirations into a tiny city lot. We were neighbors who found we had much in common. After experimenting to our heart’s content on a rented half acre in inner-Southeast, with abundant gardens, a silly (and growing) herd of goats, and the requisite homestead chickens, we began to look for a place to call our own. Like true dreamers, we fell in love with a home that no one had lived in for nearly 40 years and decided - why yes, of course, that will do nicely. In the following few years, neighbors offered us other adjacent properties, allowing us to piece together a lovely homestead that backs up to National forest & looks out over the Columbia River. We call our little eden that is nestled into the side of a mountain in the middle of the Columbia River Gorge, Spero Homestead. Spero is Latin for hope and feels forever optimistic to us. For who could plant a seed or rear a new generation of animals without hope, so akin to faith?
It is here that we are entertained endlessly by the beauty that is all around us, the joy of real & good work and the wonder that comes when you work intimately with nature.
Now ya'll drop by again
real soon, ya hear!
