Big Picture Farm

About Big Picture Farm

In the foothills of Vermont’s Green Mountain Range, Lucas Farrell and Louisa Conrad raise 30 Animal Welfare Approved dairy goats on Big Picture Farm in Townshend, about 17 miles north of Brattleboro.

Big Picture Farm is home to 30 dairy goats of mixed breeds: French alpines, Saanens, and Nubians. The goats graze 87 acres of pasture and woodland. During the summer months, they enjoy plentiful shade from the local hardwoods and brush, grazing and browsing on fields of clover and timothy, as well as raspberries and blackberries and other brush and shrubs. The goats also delight in the outcroppings of bedrock found on the property, on which they like to climb and play.

The farmers employ a rotational model of grazing, limiting the goats to foraging on one section of land each day, before moving them (and their solar-powered electric fencing) to another plot. The goats are milked twice a day, which requires a steadfast commitment to sanitary practices and careful observation of the goats’ udder health and behavior. Lucas and Louisa then transform the milk into award-winning goat milk caramels, winning a 2013 Good Food Award in the Confections category. 

Big Picture Farm’s goat milk caramels are available from almost 200 retail outlets nationwide. For more information, visit the farm’s website.