Air's Wild Acres

Small goats and small batch cheesemaking on a small farm, all with big laughs.

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Air’s Wild Acres

About Us

Our farm by the numbers:

We’re a small learning farm in the Sierra Nevada Foothills of California, about an hour northeast of Sacramento.

Located close to hundreds of acres of open space, we prioritize spending time in nature and slow living, while minimizing our impact on the planet.

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Acres of woods and pasture land.

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Adult goats, with many kids (baby goats!) depending on the season.

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Other animals who make their home at Air’s Wild Acres, including humans, dogs, Spice Girl the Donkey, and chickens.

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Find out how we got here, who we are, and our vision for the future.

About Air’s Wild Acres

Want to Visit Us?

On a limited basis, we offer farm tours with opportunities to meet the goats and to learn more about small scale farming. If you have a special event or activity in mind please reach out and we may be able to accommodate you and your family.

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We’d love to hear from you. Let us know what questions you have about farm life, if you would like to request goats at your zoom meetings, have a special projects we can help with, etc.

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Recent Farm Scenes

Anyone need eggs? Sun's out, rock out with your goats out. Doing farm chores is like 50% productive work and 50% stopping to take pictures of the cute animals or kicking the soccer ball for Waffles. We finally got the rest of the hardware cloth on chicken coop, though, meaning I might be able to keep them contained for any reason (like training them to lay their eggs in one place, for example 😂). Yep, still raining. It cracks me up watching the girls run quickly to the milking shed though. They know the routine and they're here for it, rain or shine. I bought an actual cheese press for my hard cheeses. Last time I made cheddar, I used a bunch of textbooks and a kettlebell to press the cheese and there's dents on my floor now as a result. This process is kind of important, as it dictates how much moisture stays in the cheese during aging, while pressing the curds together in a way that prevents pathways for bad molds. When I first started collecting animals, people would always ask me why: Why goats, why quail, why chickens... I don't know man, why not? Because they feed me and do weird things that make me laugh? We have to fill our time on this planet somehow, and I choose to do so living in harmony with these silly birds. Who cares why else I got them. Who needs a shake weight when you can just make butter? They're as soft and fluffy as they look. Looks delicious, tastes disgusting. I learned today that if you age brie *too long* it tastes like ammonia, which is not surprising since Willis kept saying the wine fridge smelled like cleaning supplies.

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