“I saw a kid on Craigslist that looked like the same goat I had growing up.” “I begged Jerry for a goat,” Theresa said. The Eichers’ became dairy goat farmers in December 2011.īoth Jerry and Theresa grew up in the agriculture industry, and Theresa was looking to return to those familiar roots. “That’s when I started messing around with cheeses and creams.” “When we first started, we milked the goats by hand and had so much milk,” Theresa said. Then, whatever milk is not sold as fluid milk, Theresa will process into goat cheese in the couple’s licensed cheese processing room or use in her homemade body and face creams, a wrinkle cream and lip cream, and variety of scented soaps.Ĭreating creams and soaps from the milk was not the Eichers’ intentions when they first purchased goats, but came out of necessity when their milk volume exceeded what they could consume. Jerry milks the herd twice a day, and then transfers the milk to the nearby milkhouse where it is strained and placed in containers. The herd of Alpine, Boer, Kiko, Nubian, Toggenburg and Saanen is housed in a 30- by 70-foot poll shed and milked in a six-unit milking station. “We want to get as many streams of income from these goats as we can,” Jerry said. They also sell milk and meat from the herd. Jerry and Theresa are milking 22 does and use the milk to make all natural face and body creams, soaps, as well as cheese. It is an arrangement the couple has had for many years on their dairy goat farm, Eichers Hobby Farm, in Stearns County near Avon, Minn. – On any given day, Jerry Eichers is outside tending to the goat herd, while his wife, Theresa, is in the house making products from the goat milk. We look forward to serving our community with all natural products and hope that you will give us a try for I know you will totally enjoy all our products which have been made with tons of love!Įichers couple turns hobby into business with milk byproductsĪVON, Minn. We are also serving goat cheese and goat meat “all natural” and made at our licensed cheese processing plant. While owning my spa salon I also used natural holistic products and that’s what I am currently focused on with the goat soaps and creams providing people with all natural products. My parents along with many other people I knew from my past instilled the natural approach to skin care, medicine, food consumption and all other natural live off the land behaviors. I come from a background starting with my great uncle who practiced natural healing technics. In all the years in the beauty industry I saw people with many skin and health issues. I have a deep desire to help people by providing these products. In 2012, I started going to Farmers Market‘s and sharing our products with the public. They helped choose the scents I made for the first creams and soaps. When I was creating the recipes for my products, my salon/spa clients were my test subjects. We started making goat milk face and body creams and goat milk soap. To back up just a bit, in 2011 Jerry, my husband, and I started a hobby farm with goats as our main animal. I retired from the beauty industry in 2014. The next 35 years of my life I was in the cosmetology/aesthetician industry, owning my own salon/spa 20 of those years. The first 18 years of my life I spent on a dairy farm with amazing animals including my pet goat Goldie. Hello there! I am Theresa Eichers, owner of Eichers Hobby Farm.
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