Wild In Wild started in 2013 from a desire to be a little more self sufficient, make some goat cheese, and to spend 100% of our time working with little to no room for relaxation. 11 years later, it’s safe to say we’ve achieved all three of these goals, but really knocked the last one outta the park.

Our goats are bred to have the capacity and the will-to-milk necessary to sustain 24-hr fills, rather than the standard 12. This was initially out of necessity from working 24-hr shifts. Now it is because we don’t want to milk twice a day and have a proven track record of producing does who are capable of sustaining productive once-a-day (OAD) lactations.

Production is our primary driver for breeding decisions but form = function. All of our does who have been LA’d past their first lactation have scored 88-90, many have earned their Superior Genetics award, and a couple have earned Elite status while a few more are knocking on the door. We don’t show, but love to sell to herds that do, as well as those who participate in herd improvement programs.

Regarding the herd name… we live on the edge of a canyon that feeds into the Clackamas River. That river twists its way out of the foothills of Mount Hood, a mountain we are lucky enough to see from our farm. This place hums with birds, insects, predators and prey. It is home and we belong to it more than it belongs to us.

For those who would see directly into essential nature, the idea of the sacred is a delusion and an obstruction: it diverts us from seeing what is before our eyes: plain thusness. Roots, stems, and branches are all equally scratchy. No hierarchy, no equality. No occult and exoteric, no gifted kids and slow achievers. No wild and tame, no bound or free, no natural and artificial. Each totally its own frail self. Even though connected all which ways; even because connected all which ways.

This, thusness, is the nature of the nature of nature. The wild in wild.

~ Gary Snyder, The Practice of the Wild