GardenHome Farm

03/24/2025

What an abundant life I get to experience on our sweet farm. Looking over some photos of the last year I appreciate all of our critters of the animal and human kind.

11/28/2024

09/18/2024

Nothing as beautiful as fall lighting on our beautiful Highland cows and calves. White cow is GardenHome Magnolia with her bull calf, and the sun cow is GardenHome Jasmine with her little heifer calf. Both calves sired by JPEL’s Shauhn (a red bull). We have one more cow to calve soon. Heifers will be available at weaning time.

12/14/2023

We are pleased to announce our breeding plans for spring 2024 at GardenHome Farm. We are now taking reservations although there will be limited availability.

After reducing our herd to the best of the best we are excited to see the next generation of our Saanens hit the ground in May.

Our new herd sire, Tempo Passa Entranced comes with some pretty impressive genetics behind him. He combines two lines that we really like and have used before in our herd. All our Saanens are bred with him.

Tempo Passa Entranced:

D: Tempo Passa Etienne 10*- 1st in class 2017, 2021 ADGA Nat’l
DD: Des Ruhigestelle Elendrea
SS: Des Ruhigestelle Prince Edward
S: Tempo Passa ET Winruler
DD: Des Ruhigestelle Element
DS: Des Ruhigestelle Winclimber

1/2 brother to Etoilee- 2021 ADGA National Champion
1/2 brother to Estolline- 2019 ADGA 1st milking yearling
Full brother to Social Climber and Winwalker

Does Linear Appraisal Scores:
GardenHome Pfiz- VEVE 90
GardenHome Trillium- VVEV 88
GardenHome Moderna- VVVE 90
GardenHome Lights Out!- GEGE 87
GardenHome Fashion Star- yearling first freshener for spring of 2024. No LA done on her in 2023
GardenHome Lights Out! is being milked through and won’t be bred this year.

2023 NATIONALS
All 2 year old class:
4th place GardenHome Pfiz
6th place GardenHome Lights Out!
12th place GardenHome Trillium
15th place GardenHome Moderna (milked through)

2nd place Get of Sire (Vineyard View On Tap)
4th place Dairy Herd
5th place Best Three

08/06/2023

So here is their report card from Linear Appraisal in the captions. And yes. This is our entire herd now. Tiny but strong.

08/01/2023

Linear appraisal is purported to be a scorecard on the value of a sire, but we take it also as a report card of the individual doe. We look forward to it as an information gathering on our herd. Not just on the individual animal but up and down the herd. How are we doing as a herd on mammaries? On feet? On rumps? We always said we like to build a goat from the back business end forward. The report is good and shows we are moving in the right direction. We can brag of plenty of E’s and our 88-90’s but we are most interested in what can we improve and where. Our herd is young and it’s exciting to know they will only improve with age.

07/20/2023

2023 NATIONALS
We are pretty excited about the future of our young herd.

All 2 year old class:
4th place GardenHome Pfiz- GardenHome Freya x Vineyard View on Tap

6th place GardenHome Lights Out!- GardenHome Fancy x Vineyard View On Tap

12th place GardenHome Trillium- GardenHome Tiara x GardenHome Prince Phoenix

15th place GardenHome Moderna- GardenHome Freya x Vineyard View On Tap

19th place GardenHome Stardust (aka Dusty)- GardenHome Star x Vineyard View On Tap

4th place Dairy Herd
5th place Best Three
2nd place Get of Sire (Vineyard View On Tap)

05/28/2023

Our new queen- 2 year old Ch. (pending) GardenHome Pfiz. Winning her permanent champion at her first show was fantastic. And then we were delighted when she went Best Doe in Show at the large Udder Spectacular Dairy Goat Show this weekend in Monroe, WA. against some formidable competition.
Sire- Vineyard View On Tap; Dam- GardenHome Freya.
We are happy the judges see what we see every day in the milk parlor. Plus, she is a sweetheart. Oh, and she made 20 lbs milk on her last milk test.

05/28/2023

We are so proud to say that our GardenHome Pfiz is now a (pending) finished champion and took Best Doe in Show in one of the three rings during this weekend’s show that had amazing and tough competition!! She is a two year old with 2 freshenings! We couldn’t be happier and are still on cloud 9 with our best show result!!
We want to thank the judges, show hosts, fellow breeders, and friends for such a fun show!

05/19/2023

We are pleased to announce our new herd sire:
“Tempo Passa Entranced”

D: Tempo Passa Etienne 10*- 1st in class 2017, 2021 ADGA Nationals
DD: Des Ruhigestelle Elendrea
SS: Des Ruhigestelle Prince Edward

S: Tempo Passa ET Winruler
DD: Des Ruhigestelle Element
DS: Des Ruhigestelle Winclimber

Full brother to Social Climber and Winwalker

1/2 brother to Etoilee- 2021 ADGA National Champion
1/2 brother to Estolline- 2019 ADGA Nationals 1st milking yearling

We are really excited to bring two lines together in one buck that we already have in our background- both the Win line and the Prince Edward line. We look forward to seeing what he produces in our herd.

Thank you Laurie Acton for allowing us to bring him home. We anticipate a long and happy life here for him.












05/19/2023

We are a tiny herd but feel like it’s a herd of diamonds. First DHIA test is in the bag and considering it was the hottest day of the year so far, we are pretty happy. This is a young herd.

Harmony- 4 yr old Oberhasli; 3rd freshening- 14.4 lbs milk; 4.15 % butterfat

Dusty (Stardust)- 2 yr old Saanen; 2nd freshening- 20 lbs milk; 3.49 butterfat

Trillium- 2 year old Saanen; 2nd freshening- 13.6 lbs milk; 5.0 butterfat (granted, she was only 10 days fresh so high bf)

Pfiz- 2 year old Saanen; 2nd freshening- 19.9 lbs milk; 4.3 butterfat

Lights- 2 year old Saanen; 2nd freshening-butterfat; 21.7 milk; 4.55 butterfat

Discord- 2 yr old Oberhasli; 1st freshening- 11.6 milk; 3.51 butterfat

05/11/2023

A couple of stunning Oberhasli buck kids available. These boys are each similar in length, height, and width. Ober-D’Rainbow CSPN Kurry X CH (pending) GardenHome Harmony. Pedigrees of dam and sire in comments.