For Mother’s Day, I received several products made by Monica
Schmidt, my favorite farm girl at Autumn Blaze Farm. When I first met Monica a few years ago, she
was going to school, teaching school
and a busy wife and mom, balancing everybody’s activities. Monica is married to Brian, and has been
for the past 14 years. They have a
houseful with 2 lovely children, 4 dogs, a cat, chickens and goats…. Coming
soon: bees!
I remember when Brian started building homes for the
chickens they hoped to raise, and I was impressed with his skill as well as
with Monica’s commitment to keep the chickens. (I would probably have empty
chicken houses because I would have decided its too much work.) Monica talks about their journey like this: “I
convinced my husband in to keeping chickens.
After a few years of keeping happy healthy chickens, we decided to take
farm life a step further and venture into raising miniature dairy goats, called
Nigerian Dwarf Goats. I have always
joked that, “chicken keeping is the gateway farm animal!”” She added, “We also
love eating fresh fruit and veggies from our garden and soon we will have bees
and sell our honey!”
Now, their daughter
enjoys showing the goats at different jackpot shows as well as training them to
do therapy work. Monica started making
goat milk soap for their son to soothe eczema because goat milk soap is very
nourishing for the skin. – she has also made facial scrubs (which I LOVE) and
other bath products that are so fantastic, and I can’t even believe she made
all of this!
If you ask her, Monica will tell you that she feels like she
is living the dream of chicken keeping, milking and showing goats, growing
veggies, and making all sorts of natural products from our funny farm! I guess you can say, I’m a wanna-be farm
girl! (I say she is a farm girl)
You can learn more about the goings on at Autumn Blaze Farm
and check out Monica’s adventures here.
I can’t wait to see what she dreams up next!
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