Our Background

Amazing Acres Goat Dairy is in northern Chester County, PA, in Elverson, Warwick Township.

Debbie and Fred have been raising dairy goats continually since 1980. They wanted to start a goat dairy because of the health benefits of goat’s milk — many lactose intolerant people do very well on goat’s milk since the casein chains are very small, therefore the milk is easier to digest than cow’s milk.

Debbie started raising dairy goats in 1957 because her mother wanted her and her sisters to be in 4-H. Debbie always loved animals, but when she began raising goats, her love for them never left her! She was totally hooked on goats.

Debbie’s maternal grandfather (John Klossner) was an award-winning cheese maker, specializing in Swiss Cheese. Originally from Switzerland, he emigrated to Minnesota, to a small town named Nansen, north of Duluth where he raised cows. He ran five successful award-winning cheese factories in Minnesota and Wisconsin until he passed away.

Amazing Acres' goats are grass fed in the summer and hay fed in the winter along with healthy grains. They have plenty of pasture to give them exercise, sunshine and all the grass they want to eat.

Fred is retired and manages the day-to-day barn operations. Debbie, the cheese maker,completed a certificate in Artisan Cheesemaking Course at the University of Vermont, Vermont Institute of Artisan Cheesemaking. This consisted of six courses dealing with subjects from chemistry composition of milk, starter cultures, food safety and sanitation, and Cheesemaking!

Our Goats

Our herd would be 100% Nubian goats, but we recently added Kiss, a purebred Alpine doe to our herd! Isn’t she beautiful?

Why — because we think that the Nubian goat’s milk is the mildest of the goat breeds. We love their long ears and Roman noses. All goats have great personalities, but we just love the look of the Nubian and the flavor of their milk.

All of our goats are CAE free, so we are able to keep the kids with their mothers for two months instead of separating them at birth. This reduces stress on both the mother and her kids and we feel it makes for a healthier, happy goat which, in turn, produces a healthier product.