I have a website now... yay..

Hello Everyone.  I have been busy making soap and setting up my new website. I am so excited!!  Please visit and tell me what you think.  meadowhillfarmct.com


As a grand opening for my website, I am offering 10% off for the month of January 2013..  Plus I always add something extra in your package to compensate for shipping.

I've started doing youtube videos about making soap with my new video camera that Santa brought me...
My YouTube channel

I have been busy making soap for wholesale orders and making new soaps for Valentines Day and Mothers Day.  These are called Blissful Memories and smell so good.

Blissful Memories

Summer Rain

I have also been trying my hand at Hot Process soap and I love it...  Here is one I did that is scented with Aloe Vera Clay...

I have also changed my logo.  Last year on Easter Morning Olivia (momma goat) had twin boys.  One was a nice big healthy boy that is named Elvis and I though she was done.  Then a few minutes later out came this tiny baby that just dropped to the ground.  My husband and I thought the worst.  I picked him up and dried him off and realized he was breathing.  He was so thin and small.   I hoped for the best but wasn't expecting him to survive the night.  We took JC (do you get the reference of Easter and JC) in the house so we could keep him warm and bottle feed him. He did very well and after a few weeks in the house (cat kennel and very careful pee pee monitoring) he was able to return to the barn..  That was almost a year ago.  Needless to say JC and my husband share a special bond... oh and Brownie our Chesapeake Bay Retriever wants goats milk too..

A long introduction to my new logo but it is important to know why JC is very special to us....  So here it is...

So many new and exciting things happening...  Check out my website for pictures of the soap I have been making.

bye for now....

It has been a while since I've blogged. 

I've been busy.  My soap business has started to pick up.  I spent the last year fine tuning my packaging, labels and doing vendor shows. 

The look of my soap has changed but they are still fancy.  I love the simple look of soap but part of what I express about myself is what I design in my soap.  It appeals to my artsy side.  I love cutting the soap and finding what is inside each bar.  The color swirls or specific design. 

I have started to pick up some wholesale account and that is very exciting.  To me that means my soap is awesome :)...

More soap....

It has been a while since I posted more pictures...  I've incorporated Rice Bran Oil into my soap because it is very nourishing and great for mature skin...

The soap I have made so far................

I have to say - soap making is addicting.  I am loving it.  Everything that I have made so far has come out great.  I hope I just didn't jinx myself..

My niece's wedding.

My lovely niece Olivia was married on Saturday June 18th.  It was a beautiful day and she looked absolutely stunning as usual.  My niece is a beautiful person both inside and out.  I was very excited to be able to make soap for her wedding favors and make her wedding cupcakes.  I wanted everything to be perfect for her and was very stressed out for the last two months while planning the cupcakes.  I had never done anything like this before so I was unsure of what I was doing.  It took alot of practice and planning because of my inexperience.

I will try and post pictures... I made vanilla cupcakes with strawberry filling and chocolate cupcakes with cherry filling.  I decorated them with red and white gum paste roses.

The soap was Goat Milk Lavender and Honey Oat Lavender...

My first ever Blog and Post

My name is Ruth.  I live in a small town in Sterling, CT and consider myself a "make it yourself" kind of person.  I am married to a wonderful man and have two great boys that are 17 and 20.  I love to supply my family with anything and everything homemade.  The majority of my week goes to working as a tax accountant for a national bank, this is what pays the bills and supplies our health benefits and retirement someday, the other part of my week goes to the small farm we have.

We have been trying to make our small farm profitable on a small budget for about 4 years.  We first tried chickens and beef but realized quickly that our 11 acres and limited budget was not enough to supply enough grazing to reduce the feed price and actually make a profit when the cattle was large enough to market (CT law would only allow selling live animals).  We were also selling eggs from our 45 chickens, or should I say, trying to sell eggs.  At the time the supermarket was getting less than a dollar a dozen and again with the cost of grain we were loosing money selling them for a dollar a dozen.  We had to cut our losses and move on.

We settled on Goats.  They are smaller animals, cute as could be, sweet, give you plenty of milk, eat much less than cattle and they even wag their little tails when they see you.  I could sell milk and make cheese....    Perfect.... 

I put a call into the CT Dept of Ag to find out what I need to do to start making cheese and selling milk when my ladies have their babies.  They asked "will you be selling raw milk".....  Apparently there are a lot more hoops you must jump through with raw milk than pasteurized milk..  I opted for pasteurized as a starting point.  I told him about my plan for creating a cheese making space in my basement so I could milk the girls and get the milk cooled down right away and then process into cheese in the same area...  This was the best scenario in my mind.  He seemed ok with my plan and we made an appointment for him to come look at my place, I was very excited.

Well, the basement will not work because the ceilings are to low to be able to cover all the water pipes with a non porous material and still be able to walk without being hunched all the time.  The only other option would be a separate building with hot and cold running water, cement floor with two separate area for milking and processing.  Then it must be equipped with all the processing and pasteurizing equipment.  It will cost over twenty thousand dollars.  Ugh...  what next.  Soon I will have to give up all together...

My final attempt at making this farm profitable (pay for their grain and hay is what I consider a profit).   I am trying Goat Milk Soap.  ....  Stay tuned for my soap making progress...  I have to admit - it is fun..