Rock Bottom Farm is a family farmstead located in Richmond, ME. Raising registered Nigerian dairy goats and kunekune pigs on pasture for pork production.
These will be headed out in a week or so to join all the others! ๐ซง
Soap is available at Sunflower Farm & Pleasant Pond Orchard (starting the weekend of 6/20!)
05/31/2025
โก๏ธUpdate 6/7โก๏ธ
11-week-old purebred kunekune barrows.
Ready to go now.
Great meat prospects. This particular line is on track to weigh ~200 lbs at 12-15 mo, with proper nutrition.
3๏ธโฃ0๏ธโฃ0๏ธโฃ for both.
Also open to trades of beef, seafood (lobster, scallops), wood mulch, gravel or stone dust. Willing to consider other offers, but not interested in anythingg alive.
Must pick up in Richmond.
PM with interest.
05/29/2025
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DOB 3/8/2018
SIRE: BLACKSTRAP OREO
SS:ROSASHARN BH GRAND THEFT AUTUM
SD:NC PROMISEDLAND RC MOON DAY
Looking to move to a new herd.
I have a few younger bucks who are being used more heavily and am just not using him.
Reference pics included, courtesy of We Goat It.
4๏ธโฃ0๏ธโฃ0๏ธโฃ, PM if interested. He will need other bucks or a wether companion. If you do not have that, I have a wether availble as well.
(second photo credit to We Goat It).
05/29/2025
Griff, keeping watch atop the barn compost pile.
His favorite place to sit โฆ he can see the woods and back field from here. Julia does not challenge him for this spot.
Some said he could not guard. His colors arenโt right. Itโs true, we found out he isnโt a purebred Pyrenees. There is Maremma in his past, and somewhere very far back, ~1% of something else. Another guardian? Likely .. but it matters not, because at 15 months of age, he spends 100% of his time with goats, unsupervised (except by Julia) .. and he passed his second kidding season with flying colors. ๐ค๐ค๐ค
Griff is our second JumpStart Farm guardian, and I recommend Sharonโs dogs every chance I get!
05/18/2025
โญ๏ธ 50 new bars curing tonight! โญ๏ธ
Gearing up for summer, stay tuned to learn where you can find Rock Bottom Farm soap this summer!
05/17/2025
This young lady is staying with us .. her mom is Tulsi, GM is Basil .. her sister is Pesto .. sire is Et tu Brutรฉ โฆ looking for name ideas! ๐
04/27/2025
โ๏ธ We did get to see the sun and feel its growing ๏ฟผstrength this week! Kids are leaving and goat snuggles wrapped up today.
๐ง It is my plan to offer soap and cheese from the farm through the summer. Soap will also be available at a couple other venues โ stay tuned for more!
๐พ Our front hill is *finally* being cleared! All the trees & stumps will be gone and I cannot wait to see goats grazing / browsing the hill later this season!
04/14/2025
You guys โฆ spring has been brutal.
I got excited last fall and bred everyone early thinking that early-season kids would keep me busy when winter is otherwise a struggle. But itโs been *hard*! Winter was cold and it keeps hanging on!
Kid snuggles happened early and the weather has not been cooperative! If you missed out, please send a PM or an email and we can find a way to fit your group in!
04/07/2025
There are a few more chances for goat snuggles before kids start leaving!
We kidded early this season ... we'll return to March / April kidding next season -- the weather has been a real drag!
04/06/2025
Iโm shaking up the Rock Bottom Farm herd this year โฆ underperforming does are moving on and there are some really exciting additions!
Meet Blackstream Farm PK Midas Oath
Dam: Brook Run Acres Mega Gold VVEE 90
Sire: Wood Bridge Farm Promise Kept (son of the 2016 JR ADGA national champion)
Heโs a handsome buckling, sweet-as-can-be and โpromisesโ big things for our herd in the future! ๐ค
(Photo credit to Blackstream Farm)
03/31/2025
.. and in other wildly-exciting news, Phay came home with me today! She's beautiful, petite and everything I love about a Nigerian Dwarf. I feel beyond fortunate to have her in my herd!
If you're at all familiar with Old Mountain Farm goats, I've admired Swift Impala from afar for years. Cheryle has a years-long waitlist, and the likelihood of ever getting my hands on those genes felt impossible. Phay is a daughter to Impala and granddaughter to Gazelle .. I am over-the-moon excited about this doe!! ๐ซโจ
*Thank you*, Stacey, for this opportunity and for trusting me with this special doe! ๐ค๐ค๐ค
Old Mountain Farm Phaline Quinn
SIRE: Old Mountain Farm Bravo Quinn +*B
DAM: Old Mountain Farm Swift Impala 4*M
(photo credit to Haymaker Farm)
03/31/2025
Super-excited to have confirmation of twins for Lana (Haymaker Farm Svitlana Quinn) x Moon Station SS Oberon, due in July! ๐คฉ๐ฅณ๐ค๐
Thank you to Stacey at Haymaker Farm for Lana & this super-exciting match! ๐ค
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Both aspiring farmer's with many ideas for hobbies and projects, Scott and Melissa joined forces in 2015. With four boys between the two of them, they set out to embrace this crazy life; following Scott's motto: "Today is today!"
โScott works full time for the City of Hallowell as Police Chief. Melissa is a Nurse Practitioner at the Richmond Area Health Center.
โScott's interests include composting (everything!), vegetable gardening, metal work, tumbling stones, re-purposing discarded furniture, photography, searching for lost treasure on abandoned properties and collecting rocks and fossils along the river banks of the Kennebec, kayaking, bikes and camping.โ
Melissa enjoys flower gardens, small craft projects, canning, animal care taking, collecting rocks for gardening / landscape designs, baking, camping and accompanying Scott on river trips or any other adventure he can stir up!
|| Chickens ||
The gateway animal. At first it was just for the joy of collecting fresh eggs at the end of each day. Then came the endeavor to humanely raise chickens for our dinner table.
Currently, we raise Red Rangers for meat, and choose not to medicate the birds we will eat. We feed our meat birds a good-quality, high protein chicken feed, offer plenty of kitchen and garden scraps and the whey leftover from the cheese making process. Since moving to Richmond, we have started working on plans for pastured chicken and will offer a chicken co-op for 2019 (message us for more details!).
โOur laying hen flock is quite diverse. Some of our favorites are Araucanas / Ameraucanas, French Black Copper Marans, and Orpingtons. This will be the third year we have hatched out own chicks. Keep an eye on our Instagram and / or pages for pictures of our egg rainbow!
|| Maple Syrup ||
โScott's venture into "sapping" eventually led to the purchase of an evaporator and a passion for small-scale maple syrup making. From mid-February through early-April you can catch a glimpse of wood smoke and white steam pouring from the roof of the sap house, with Scott inside, stoking the fire and watching the sap boil. Bottles feature the "SMACK'S" label, representing "Scott Mac & Kids", the sugary-sweet start-up for Rock Bottom Farm. The kids play an integral role in the collection of hundreds of gallons of sap throughout a season. You can usually find them hanging around the sap house, chopping wood for kindling or throwing snowballs at each other. Each season we produce enough syrup to supply our family for the year, and a little extra to share with friends and family. We hope to continue to grow this part of our homesteading adventure.
|| Goats ||
โGoats joined our farm in June of 2016. Melissa had an interest in raising dairy goats, inspired by an undergraduate college term spent in Namibia at the Cheetah Conservation Fund where she worked on a project to promote the use of livestock guarding dogs on rural farms to protect sheep and goats from predators, with the primary focus on preventing the killing of cheetahs. Fast-forward nearly a decade: the opportunity to have goats was within reach, and Scott said "go for it!". We started our herd with two Nigerian Dwarf does from Sunflower Farm in Cumberland. We now have a herd of 14 registered Nigerian Dwarf goats! Kids will be for sale in the spring.
|| On the Horizon ||
โWe moved our operation to a larger property in fall 2018 after stumbling on a 200-year-old farmhouse with 27 acres of land. We have plans to continue our expansion and would like to introduce a farm stand in the summer of 2019 to offer fresh fruits, vegetables, goat milk products, and eggs to our community. We've got grand ideas, and hope you'll follow along and join us when you see something exciting!
After all, small farms cannot make it without the support of the community!
