Meeting The Fabulous Beekman Boys

First Grade...before I had a pet goat...

When I was a little girl I had a goat named Nannie. She followed me around like a dog.  My parents divorced so we had to move to my mawmaw and pawpaws house (southern lingo for grandparents).

 I had to leave my dear Nannie behind. 

When I went back for a visit my dad avoided the questions about Nannie and he then reluctantly stated he had given her away to a friend. 

 I really did not buy that answer, it was more likely that he took her to a stockyard and sold her.  I wanted to believe  that she was running around with other goats in a big ole field of daisies... 

That has always stayed with me and I always had a dream of owning my own goat farm with a big field of daisies.

This was in about fourth grade...major tom boy, animal lover ...  my poor mother .... she said I would refuse to wear anything else!

Fast Forward 33 years

My husband and I live on a little over an acre of land with forty chickens,

two dogs and two almost grown children.

 But because we live on one busy highway and have thousands of hours in landscaping and box gardens we can not chance having run away goats.



Working on our landscape.



Do goats eat roses?  They would have a rose buffet, we have fifteen bushes just in the back landscape.

Besides our neighbor is Camo Mans mawmaw and she would die if we had goats running around.

You all know we have a "Little House in the Big Woods"  in Mississippi. 

 We are blessed to call this place home on the weekends. We are half a mile from the highway and there is more than enough land to have animals.



This is my goat from one of my Road Trips and my field of clover.



  Problem it is a two hour drive from my home so a

 goat farm is out of the question for now.

 Well at "Little House in the Big Woods"  as crazy as it sounds
 I catch a channel called Planet Green.

One night I watched the premiere of a show called
The Fabulous Beekman Boys. 

There it was, on that show, the goat farm I have always dreamed of owning.

Two city fellows from New York City (Dr. Brent and Josh)
 started a farm and opened a business.

 But, if that is not enough Josh has written a book about their life
and has a  cookbook in the works.  

They have put a small town (Sharon Springs) with its wonderful citizens out there for the world to see and love.

Dr. Brent and Josh of course have wonderful friends that
 help them pull all of this together. One of those characters is none other
than Farmer John and his now famous goats.
(the goats have their very own live web cam)

  Farmer John captured my heart from the very first episode.
 His love and compassion  for his goats is to be admired.
They are living their dream...of course with lots of hard work and sacrifice.

Can I tell you that night, I learned how to DVR real quick.
 I had to watch and see what they were going to do next.
Would their dream work out or go bust?

I found them right away on FB so that I could follow along...then had to add twitter in the mix.

  You can not even imagine my excitement when I was able to

 meet them in New Orleans.  They are such genuine hard working guys.

Dr. Brent, myself, and Josh

Camo Man had to ride to N.O. with me. He was so curious about
 why I kept gushing about Josh and Brent.  
Who are those guys that now make our family question 
" where does the food they eat come from".
After hearing them speak about their love of Sharon Spring and working hard to get where they are,  Camo Man is hooked too! 
While I was running my mouth, Camo Man was busy buying their

Back Porch Soap Collection and Josh's book! 

 Review of that in another post.

Only about 30 miles from home did I realize that I forgot my camera!

A BIG shout out to McGreevy-Squier Photograghy 

 they are the sweetest couple! 

They were visiting all the way from San Antonio.  They so graciously took my picture.  THANK YA'LL

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."