Please help Anderson Family Farm build a formulary to meet the needs of our growing natural goat milk body care business. We need to upgrade our facilities to formulate and package our artisan products more efficiently.  Our artisan products are high touch and individually made, from carefully formulating the natural ingredients all the way to packaging and sending them out to you! 

It all starts with our goats and their rich milk.  Kinder goat milk is rich in butterfat making it perfect for the lotions, soaps and butters we create.  We follow organic standards on our farm and maintain a healthy, thriving herd that grazes on our 16 acres in the fresh central Washington breeze. We live on a beautiful farm just outside the small college town of Ellensburg, Washington, which also happens to host the world famous Ellensburg Rodeo every Labor Day weekend.

Our formulary would be approximately 1600 square feet on the main floor, with an upper room for a future intern program.  We have a vision to be able to house those who would love to come to our farm, learn about goats, milking and farming, and all that we have gained along the way about a family owned business.  The outer shell would look much like our white barn, though the interior would be designed to enable us to produce a higher volume of products in a much more efficient way.  We also envision opening our formulary one weekend a month for our guests to delight in a farm to table dinner experience!  In the deep of winter when our farm chores slow down, we will offer cheese-making classes to all who wish to learn.

We sell our artisan products at various farmers’ markets, online through our website, and at selected retailers around the northwest, as well as special events.  Our products contain healing ingredients and natural preservatives. Your skin is the largest organ in your body; what goes on your skin is absorbed within minutes into your blood stream.  Therefore, it is vital that you apply natural, fresh products to your skin.  Each of our products created meets this standard.  As our product reach and reputation grows, we need to be able to keep up with customer demand without compromising our product quality.

We are ready to expand our reach by building a formulary to accomplish the following goals:

1.  Construct this building entirely debt free; we want to owe no debt but the debt of love and grow our business on a cash only basis.  We seek to be a model  for other local, small farms on how to not only create natural, fresh products, but also show how to live successfully on a family farm.

2.  Utilize a dedicated area for the formulation of our more than 100 products; a larger space will not only speed up production, but allow us to produce larger batches, enabling us to meet the growing demand of our retail and wholesale customers.  We need bigger and better tools to help us achieve economies of scale we cannot reach currently.

3.  Serve as a base of operations to launch an internship program; we seek to teach what we have learned about goats, farming, and running a family business to people who have an interest and passion for artisan products, slow food, sustainable farming and organic standards.  We desire to inform and engage a whole new generation of small farmers.

4.  Return meaningful factory work to America by providing employment here in our valley for people who want to work, buy and sell locally.  We need models of how this can work; we are proving that it can, and we are ready to take the next step, with your help.