RAIN OR SHINE – COME JOIN US!!!

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

New Events and Attractions have been added –

Come join in the fun!

 

 

 

 

 

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.

Visit our Spinning Wheel of Prizes!

Everyone Spins and Everyone Wins!

Sponsored by First Bank and Trust!

                                           FARM CREDIT
FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR AGRICULTURE AND RURAL AMERICA SINCE 1916

Loans for Farms, Homes & Land

The funding and expertise to make your rural dream a reality.

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VISIT STEVENS FEED MILL

LOCATED IN 

RURAL RETREAT

The smile you’ve always wanted

           can be yours today!

Visit their website for more info:

Pulaski Family Dentistry | Cynthia M. Southern, DDS (cynthiamsouthern.com)

https://www.cynthiamsouthern.com

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 them at syncopefallsfarm@gmail.com for a complete list of Southern Grace products.

           

           

Virginia Farm Bureau is not just for farmers.
We support all Virginians through auto, home and farm insurance from local agents; deals and savings on shopping, travel and farm equipment; and lobbying, advocacy and education on behalf of Virginia agriculture.

 

Read Mountain Animal Hospital

Where Veterinary Care is tailored

to your individual pet’s needs.

Family owned and operated since 1999.

  

Professional Rehabilitative Options Inc.

Who We Are:

PRO Case Managers are experts in their field. We take extreme care with every case. Trust your case with PRO.
We are only as good as our last case.

https://www.letprohelp.com

 

Wondrous Wools from our

Beloved Babydoll,

Border Leicester,

Leicester Longwool &

F-1 Swiss Valais Sheep,

And Angelic Angora Rabbits!

National Bank of Blacksburg

National Bank | National Bank (nbbank.com)

Getting the most from your money?

Ask about our competitive deposit rates

and all of our services!

                          Come Visit Brad’s Barber Shop is a traditional barber shop located in downtown Radford, VA or find us on Facebook!

         

         

STARLITE DRIVE-IN

LOCATED IN 

CHRISTIANSBURG

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!

Working Aussies Homestead – 

Come meet some of our Awesome Aussies in person!

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Country Roots Farm –

Providing goat milk soaps as well as Honey, Jams & Jellies,

Beeswax Candles, and feed sack totes!

 

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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NRV Dyeworks

We operate a small, indie dyeworks and spinnery from Virginia’s beautiful New River Valley area

 

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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!

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!

Weeping Willow Farm –

Busy weekend ahead! Our son and daughter in law will be selling at the Floyd Farmers Market for us, our two daughters will be selling at the Grayson Highlands Festival, and my husband & myself will be here- at the NRV G.O.A.T. Festival— not only selling our yummy goat milk caramels, but also bringing a handful of our goats for the breed demonstration! It’ll be a whirlwind of a weekend, that’s for sure- but at least you’ll be able to find our goat milk products in more places than one

Regal Point Romneys

Gorgeous Fleeces and More!

Origin Fibers Flock yarn –

Provides fiber for hand spinners and fiber fanatics.

Piney Creek Farm & Studio, Floyd, VA

Video production and photography for real estate, drone work, and custom jewelry in Floyd, VA.

 Woods Trillium Acres Farm

Specializing in Katahdin sheep and farm fresh eggs

also fresh Lavender as well as notecards!

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.

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Hidden Acres Farm – Owner/Artist – Belle Thomas

Fiber Brat, Wool Queen. Custom Orders open the first of every month.

Handmade By Selena B –

Everything I sell I make myself. Crochet Shawls, Scrunchies, Dreamcatchers, Needle Felted fiber art, Jewelry, Lip Balms, Goats Milk soap, Air Fresheners, Coconut Soy Wax Melts and other trinkets! More coming soon!!!

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Legacy Longwools – Paula Bittinger

Dedicated to the preservation of the Leicester Longwool Sheep.

Kai Mohair

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