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Isle of Man Goats is a farming business specialising in goats’ products: goat dairy products from our Anglo Nubian goats, including cheeses such as feta, chèvre, crottin, and halloumi, kefir, milk, a range of delicious thick and creamy yogurts, and a choice of wheys; goat meat from our Boer goats; Manx Mohair socks and knitting yarns and finished knitwear made from our Angora goat mohair fleeces. All our cheeses and dairy products are made in the farm dairy. All dairy products entered in the Great Taste judging in 2019 won awards. The goat meat is butchered and packed in our farm butchery. Our knitting yarns are hand dyed in the farm's visitor's centre and our knitwear is hand knitted on Island.
Our aim is to farm in harmony with nature and to constantly improve the health and biodiversity of our pastures. We run free range geese and laying hens on the pastures to avoid grazing by just one species. We farm without the use of man-made fertilisers or pesticides. We sell our dairy products in glass bottles and jars, taking a deposit on the glass to encourage return and reuse, and we wrap our cheeses in biodegradable paper. We have installed a bank of 24 photovoltaic panels on one of our barns and these provide much of the power required for the meat chiller, dairy refrigeration, and running the dairy equipment. We plan to incorporate more green energy in the near future. We are currently working out a system to store the cool-down water from our pasteuriser for use in the farm’s fruit orchard and kitchen garden.
We attend the annual agricultural shows and the Food & Drink Festival, providing friendly goats for the MNFU at these events as part of their educational programme. We also enter the livestock showing classes and engage with the public as much as possible promoting Manx Farming. In January 2020 we supported the Kirk Michael Australian Bushfire Fundraiser which raised over £6,000. In 2019 we sponsored John Anderson's Walk for Freedom. We recently launched our Whey products, using the bi product whey from cheese, yogurt, and kefir production. These whey products are fabulous for bread making and cooking. Every penny raised goes to Hospice Isle of Man.
Our ethos is to produce local food for our local community, and we sell direct to our end customers. During COVID-19 Lockdown we suspended trading through the Island’s Farmers Markets and opened a Farm Shop. The Shop is open every day from 8am until 8pm. We love engaging with the many customers who visit the farm to stock up on our products.
As well as customers coming to our Farm Shop, we have had many hundreds of visitors to the Farm to meet the goats. We first started our Kidding Chaos sessions in 2014. We now run Kidding Chaos, Goat Yoga, Farm Tours, private parties, goat care courses, and regular farm Open Days. We host Schools and Youth Clubs, Special Needs groups, WIs, Retirement Clubs etc, and we are often asked to visit organisations to give a talk about the farm. We love to 'bang the drum' for Manx farming and find ways to explain why eating locally grown food is a win - win for the environment, for the whole community and for our health.
Our aim is to farm in harmony with nature and to constantly improve the health and biodiversity of our pastures. We run free range geese and laying hens on the pastures to avoid grazing by just one species. We farm without the use of man-made fertilisers or pesticides. We sell our dairy products in glass bottles and jars, taking a deposit on the glass to encourage return and reuse, and we wrap our cheeses in biodegradable paper. We have installed a bank of 24 photovoltaic panels on one of our barns and these provide much of the power required for the meat chiller, dairy refrigeration, and running the dairy equipment. We plan to incorporate more green energy in the near future. We are currently working out a system to store the cool-down water from our pasteuriser for use in the farm’s fruit orchard and kitchen garden.
We attend the annual agricultural shows and the Food & Drink Festival, providing friendly goats for the MNFU at these events as part of their educational programme. We also enter the livestock showing classes and engage with the public as much as possible promoting Manx Farming. In January 2020 we supported the Kirk Michael Australian Bushfire Fundraiser which raised over £6,000. In 2019 we sponsored John Anderson's Walk for Freedom. We recently launched our Whey products, using the bi product whey from cheese, yogurt, and kefir production. These whey products are fabulous for bread making and cooking. Every penny raised goes to Hospice Isle of Man.
Our ethos is to produce local food for our local community, and we sell direct to our end customers. During COVID-19 Lockdown we suspended trading through the Island’s Farmers Markets and opened a Farm Shop. The Shop is open every day from 8am until 8pm. We love engaging with the many customers who visit the farm to stock up on our products.
As well as customers coming to our Farm Shop, we have had many hundreds of visitors to the Farm to meet the goats. We first started our Kidding Chaos sessions in 2014. We now run Kidding Chaos, Goat Yoga, Farm Tours, private parties, goat care courses, and regular farm Open Days. We host Schools and Youth Clubs, Special Needs groups, WIs, Retirement Clubs etc, and we are often asked to visit organisations to give a talk about the farm. We love to 'bang the drum' for Manx farming and find ways to explain why eating locally grown food is a win - win for the environment, for the whole community and for our health.
