Rock Bottom Farm is a family farmstead located in Richmond, ME. Raising registered Nigerian dwarf dairy goats. Please see our website for more information!
08/16/2025
🫧 I was recently asked about soap ingredients.
Each bar of Rock Bottom Farm soap has a QR code on the side of the bar, which takes you to our website where soap ingredient information lives!
Soaps are made with a combination of olive, coconut, sweet almond and castor oils, mango and shea butter, rendered lard (when available), goat milk (from our herd!), water and lye.
Fragrances include a combination of essential oils and phthalate-free fragrance oils.
Soap color comes from a variety of natural clays or minerals, plant and mica powders.
Some soaps rock pumice, walnut shells, seeds, oatmeal or coffee as exfoliants.
Please never hesitate to reach out if you have questions about ingredients or allergy concerns. I am happy to answer any question about what goes into our soap! 🫧
If you are looking for Rock Bottom Farm soap you can find it at the following locations:
08/16/2025
🫧 I was recently asked about soap ingredients.
Each bar of Rock Bottom Farm soap has a QR code on the side of the bar, which takes you to our website where soap ingredient information lives!
Soaps are made with a combination of olive, coconut, sweet almond and castor oils, mango and shea butter, rendered lard (when available), goat milk (from our herd!), water and lye.
Fragrances include a combination of essential oils and phthalate-free fragrance oils.
Soap color comes from a variety of natural clays or minerals, plant and mica powders.
Some soaps rock pumice, walnut shells, seeds, oatmeal or coffee as exfoliants.
Please never hesitate to reach out if you have questions about ingredients or allergy concerns. I am happy to answer any question about what goes into our soap! 🫧
If you are looking for Rock Bottom Farm soap you can find it at the following locations:
Pleasant Pond Orchard
Sunflower Farm
Four Seasons
07/07/2025
Haymaker Farm Svitlana Quinn
In the kidding stall .. any day now! 🩷
7/7 Update:: will have kids today!! 🤎
07/07/2025
Silver buckling
DOB 5/29/25
DAM: Rock Bottom Farm Edie
DS: We Goat It OR Kennedy
DD: Rock Bottom Farm Sven's Gwen
SIRE: Tiny Hill Et tu Brute
SD: ELITE Doe SG Tiny Hill Farm Raspberry Beret 2*M
SS: Tiny Hill Farm Ur Ine 4 SumFun +*B
(More pedigree info available at rockbottomfarm.net)
Would make a nice homestead buckling, but I’m happy to wether him as well. Disbudded. Will be UTD with CDT. Clean herd test.
Needs socialization, he was born late in the season and has been 100% dam raised.
$300 as a buck, with reg.
$100 as a wether.
Can be ready for this weekend.
Located in Richmond.
06/16/2025
𝓒𝓸𝓷𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓷𝓽 𝓖𝓪𝓻𝓭𝓮𝓷𝓮𝓻 🌹🌼
𝕄𝕠𝕤𝕔𝕠𝕨 𝕄𝕦𝕝𝕖 🍋🟩🫚
These will be headed out in a week or so to join all the others! 🫧
Soap is available at Sunflower Farm & Pleasant Pond Orchard (starting the weekend of 6/20!)
05/29/2025
**** Price reduced ***
𝑾𝒆 𝑮𝒐𝒂𝒕 𝑰𝒕 𝑶𝑹 𝑲𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒅𝒚
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.
3️⃣0️⃣0️⃣, 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 … 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 aren’t right. It’s true, we found out he isn’t 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. 🖤🤍🖤
Griff is our second JumpStart Farm guardian, and I recommend Sharon’s dogs every chance I get!
05/18/2025
⭐️ 50 new bars curing tonight! ⭐️
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 Bruté … looking for name ideas! 💚
04/27/2025
☀️ We did get to see the sun and feel its growing strength this week! Kids are leaving and goat snuggles wrapped up today.
🧀 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 — stay tuned for more!
🌾 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 … 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 it’s 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!
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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!"
Scott works full time for the City of Hallowell as Police Chief. Melissa is a Nurse Practitioner at the Richmond Area Health Center.
Scott'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.
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!).
Our 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 ||
Scott'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 ||
Goats 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 ||
We 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!
