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Fourth Annual G.O.A.T. (Greatest Of All Time) Sheep & Goat Festival – September 28th, 2024
MARK YOUR CALENDARS!!! This year’s Festival promises to be the biggest and best ever!!! Once again, we will be at the New River Valley Fairgrounds in Dublin, Virginia! Yes, we will still have all of your favorite attractions – Live Music, Live demonstrations including sheep & goat shearing, goat milking, yarn spinning and Herding Dog Demos! Petting Zoo, Kid’s craft and activity area, Photo booth, Sheep and Goat Breed Display, Many Vendors – Club Members who make exciting creations from wool and/or goat milk! Educational booths and displays, and your chance to win at the Spinning Wheel of Prizes! Every Young’un’s favorite contest – Help Bo Peep Find Her Lost Purple Sheep! There will also be a Starter Flock Sale! If you’ve been “on the fence” about raising sheep or goats, this is your chance to get a great start! Be prepared to be dazzled and have more fun in one day than you can imagine! EWE don’t want to miss this!!!
Sponsor The Festival!
- Become a Sponsor and be part of the fun, education and excitement!
- Various levels of sponsorship – Get a packet with full info and join us this year!
Free to the public!
Date: Saturday, September 28th 2024 9am – 4pm
New River Valley Fairgrounds Dublin, VA
Photos from Last Year
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Our Sponsors
The Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, established in 1978, is a leading biomedical teaching and research center. It serves as the in-state veterinary college for residents of Virginia and Maryland, with campuses in Blacksburg, Roanoke, Leesburg, and College Park.
The college provides top-quality services for the care of both sheep and goats, including on-farm consultations. We proudly sponsor the Sheep and Goat Festival, reflecting our commitment to the industry.
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Meet Our Vendors!
We are thrilled to announce that Syncope Falls Farm is returning this year with an incredible line of Southern Grace goat milk lotion and soap. You will have a variety to choose from with many different essential oils and fragrances available. If the benefits of goat milk are not enough, Syncope Falls Farm adds a variety of honey, lanolin, oatmeal, corn meal, and various beneficial herbs striped throughout certain soaps.
Please contact us at syncopefallsfarm@gmail.com for a complete list of Southern Grace products.
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Nolley Wood Farm produces healthy, clean, meat and eggs while maintaining the best animal welfare practices. Nolley Wood Farm is comprised of 54 open and wooded acres located outside the village of Riner, Virginia. It was part of a 600 acre family farm owned by the Nolleys for over a century. Nolley Wood is owned by Phillip and Jennifer McClellan, and is home to a flock of Katahdin sheep and their guardian llamas, a few heritage-cross pigs, 60 laying hens and 50 turkeys both heritage and broad-breasted. All are free-ranging. Eighteen Charolais cattle are jointly owned with the adjoining Selah Springs farm (also a part of the original 600 acres). All these, plus 3 Arabian horses, 3 cats and 2 dogs, combine to make up Nolley Wood Farm.
Aerie Farm LLC is a small hobby farm in Bland County with sheep, goats, horses, ducks, and other assorted indoor critters.
Amy Roberts, farm owner and Private Lands Biologist at Virginia Tech, has needle-felted for about 15 years.
She will have many fall-themed felted items to sell at this year’s festival.
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Green Mountain Farm
Melody Simpson is a teen entrepreneur who started her business in 2019. She currently owns a small herd of American Alpine goats in Blacksburg VA. She makes all natural, skin loving soap using oils/butters, goat milk from her goats, essential oils, and clays/herbs/botanicals. Her dream is to homestead and make soap for a living, and each bar of soap she sells gets her one step closer to that goal!
Windy Meadows Farm –
Providing beautiful knitted and crocheted items of clothing,
as well as roving and fiber for your own projects.
Watch a spinning demo!
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Country Roots Farm –
Providing goat milk soaps as well as Honey, Jams & Jellies,
Beeswax Candles, and feed sack totes!
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Smith Alpine Farm Pasture Raised Locally grown lamb and goat meat.
No Hormones or Antibiotics
USDA Inspected
Frozen and Vaccuum sealed packaging
Come see us at the Radford Farmers Market every Saturday from May – October!
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KenBar Farms will be returning again this year with their wildly popular selection of welcome mats, towels and other household decorative items all with a fun and sheepish theme!
Origin Fibers Flock yarn –
Provides fiber for hand spinners and fiber fanatics.
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Wild Dot Arts is owned and operated by Sarah Martin. Established in
2014. Specializing in hand spun wool yarn, kitted hats, scarfs, needle
felted critters, and fingerless mittens. Epoxy jewelry and keychains,
leather earrings, Decals, Decorated sheep and cow skulls and bones,
and custom T shirts. Everything Wild Dot Arts produces is livestock,
sheep, and show industry driven and oriented. They are proud
supporters of the sheep industry and Ag education. The future of
agriculture is in the hands of our youth!
Ziegenwald Dairy is owned and operated by John and Andrea Woodworth. Our Farm is located on Possum Creek, near Gate City, in Scott Co. Virginia. We relocated to this area in December of 1993 and bought our first goats in spring of ’94. In 2008 we attained our Grade A Dairy license which allows us to process milk, produce and sell homestead cheese. Our Cheese is made from the milk of only our own animals. We do not use hormones or antibiotics to increase milk production. We are the oldest established Grade A goat milk dairy in southwest Virginia.
We produce Chevre which is sold either plain or with added natural flavors. There is usually also some Colby style cheese available as well as mozzarella. In 2011 Feta was added to our list of farmstead cheeses. Our Camembert is a seasonal product sold at farmers markets or as special order only due to short shelf life. As of 2017 we also make a Swiss style cheese that we call Appalachian Lace. We do not add chemical preservatives or artificial color to any of our products.
You can visit us on Facebook under Ziegenwald Dairy or watch an episode of ‘French Magnolia Cooks’ on Youtube or PBS which features our dairy and cheese.