About Us
Welcome to how our farm began!
Our farming story actually started with chickens! In December 2012, we had twenty-five chicks flown in from a New Mexico hatchery. We have always had chickens and plan to continue raising beautiful birds!
We first decided to get goats in August 2013, we bought a lovely group of 2 does, a buck and a whether. They were Nigerian dwarf dairy goats bought locally from two different farms in Arkansas. We put in many months of prep work to bring them to our place, you’d have thought we were buying a huge herd! They were a much-loved group, and we were very excited to have them! Nigerians are BIG on cute and FUN!! Shortly after getting our first goats settled, we took a leap of faith for Sara to stay home full time. Changes and arrangements came together to allow Sara to focus on homesteading-everything in His timing. We built a small barn, put up goat-proof fencing, started a large garden and even had bees for a few years. During this time of beginning to stay home and building a homestead, is when Sara started experimenting with goat's milk soap recipes and from that our farm business has steadily grown.
While we sure loved those Nigerians, unfortunately they just didn’t give us the quantity of milk we wanted to be producing. So we did lots more research and asking people we knew for advice. We got to know the folks who milked locally and toured their old barns. We were in awe, and impressed with these old Ozark farmers. We got tipped onto the Nubian goats, known for their long ears. And these big, beautiful goats have wrapped their long ears right around our hearts! In 2017 we added in our first group of Nubian goats, growing the herd as time went on. Around the same time, a farmer friend of ours was in the process of selling down her herd. We already owned several from her so when she contacted us, we were honored and overwhelmed. We were soon to be the new owners of over 15 Nubian Does belonging to the "Six M Galaxy" bloodline who are known for their milk production. Along with those beautiful Does was a Buck named Blue Lightning, which led to our name change from JSW Farms to add in Blue Paradise Dairy. Paradise, because of something Jim's parents say, "Your goats live in Paradise." Our beautiful Ozark valley.
Today we have the largest dairy goat herd in the state of Arkansas, and the third largest in the U.S. with these genetic lines. A lot has changed since the days of quiet homesteading, we are a large farm today. Our land and buildings have grown, and our pastured pork enterprise was added in 2019 with a few hogs. In 2021 we added a Holstein who was in need of a good home, so we had cow milk available. We have several Jersey, Guernsey and Holstein cows now.
We feel very blessed to be able to live a life that we love. Caring for all of our animals, and providing quality products to those near and far from us. Love for what we do, makes us very good at what we do!
