Welcome to Neptune’s Farm and Dairy
A real live working family farm!
In a nutshell
We teach hands on homestead classes
—Cheesemaking
—Chicken butchering
—Lamb butchering
—Hog butchering
—Beef butchering
—Meat curing/sausage making
We train and sell dairy cows.
—10 years of good reputation
—A2 tested
—Halterbroke
—Electric fence trained
—Grassfed
—Disease tested
since 2013
This is our way of life. It’s not a fad. It’s our normal. It can become your way of life.
About
Who are we? In my mind we’re still just a pair of doe eyed kids...but I guess that was 15 years ago.
I love cattle, particularly dairy cattle…and sheep and goats and…you get the idea! We grew up using whatever we produced, cheese, yogurt, butter, vegetables, chicken, beef. Cheese is particularly is fascinating because it’s the most effective way of preserving fresh milk. Raw milk cheese with a natural rind is so far beyond the yellow grocery store cheddar! We’ve consistently made amazing cheeses for the past 15 years. Alan was insistent that we share our knowledge…so he teaches cheese making classes. Because I’d never dare to speak up in front of you all!
I met Alan when he was 17, I loved cows, so did he. Then looking one lovely bovine he commented “that cow is looking at me perfectly for a shot”!!!! Um, not what I was thinking! Alan is a butcher. He has been for 23 years. He loves every part of it. Raising the animals, teaching butchery, cooking or preserving meat, and he definitely loves eating meat! He’s taught countless people how to process a hog or a lamb in their own kitchen.
We live in a beautiful part of the Arkansas Ozarks where we’re far away from just about everything. I’m not off grid, I’m using an iPhone to build this webpage. We don’t handmilk the cows except when we’re at a show. Alan still uses bagged charcoal to grill awesome lamb. This I suppose, is a beginning of who we are.