Maid-N-Meadows

05/11/2026

Happy Monday! Time to grab some “get up and go” and get this week started!! Have a great week, from Petunia and all your friends at Maid-N-Meadows! ☺️

05/08/2026

Poor Petunia is the lamb of a first time mom who just couldn’t get it together! She has been the queen of our humble castle for the past two weeks… coffee time snuggles, movie naps on the couch, and running away with our hearts, always. Little stinker doesn’t know she is a lamb! Shhhhh don’t tell her, yet! Come see Petunia and Rowan from 9am-12pm! We will have a bottle for convenient snacks!

05/05/2026

Lol! Rowan doesn’t seem to know what is going on but he sure is going along the on the ride! 😂 Our play on the “doesn’t take two people” trend! Of course Daniel is excited to be in the middle of everything. There isn’t much he doesn’t find fun…. Except maybe fencing. 🫣

04/17/2026

Come make a batch of cheddar with us! This is our longest cheese make! 8 whole hours plus another 4-6 pressing. Often times we will have to run back after we milk to finish it up and put it in the cold. But it’s also our number one seller! So we’ll worth it! Come give it a taste at from 9-12, tomorrow. Or catch us at the downtown

04/10/2026

blended milk

At the vat keeping things

04/09/2026

A lot of hours are spent in this barn from now until fall! With cheese or planting the days can be long. Lol farming is more of a life than it is a job.

04/02/2026

Goats act like they haven’t got anything better to do than to Houdini their way out of fences. That corn debacle with the neighbors cost us $900! Start with a good brand of woven wire. We like “Red Brand” and put posts in 12 feet apart. And as Daniel said, make sure it is tight to the ground. Goats will push and stretch a fence if they can get their head through.
We use some electric fencing to stretch our feeding options and keep the goats from ruining our expensive woven wire fences. But that’s another video!
Just know they are my (Keely) and Gideon’s favorite farm animal, and they are so fun that they are worth the extra drama…. Until they are on the hood of the neighbor’s car😑🤪🫣😱 Keep those fences so tight a cat can’t get through!

03/25/2026

on the

03/24/2026

Sheep dairying is an expensive undertaking because sheep may only give about half a gallon a day, but take off 4 months for maternity leave. For years farms have been working toward getting improved genetics into the country to help us increase milk yields on these beauties! With recent semen imports, new energy is blooming to improve the breed. SARE and DYSANA have access to these udder scoring sheets. Along with udder conformation, we will be measuring monthly output averages and testing milk for components to ensure that our best ewes are put with our best rams.

03/20/2026

Thank you to for pointing this question out to us! There is a real point to be made here. We are limited by the number cows we can run on the land, by how much they can produce on grass, by the labor it costs to run our little operation, and we don’t benefit from economies of scale. Basically we are limited in how much we can make and therefore have to make more per pound of cheese than if we were pumping out cheese by the thousands of pounds.
Our business model has not been a great one for return on investment. We keep cows other farmers would send to the pound pen. We work very long hours and pay our help better than we pay ourselves. Until last year, we were living very much hand to mouth. An extra farmers market and a loyal community of cheese lovers really saved this family farm. Thank you! We will continue to try and improve, learn, and grow.

03/12/2026