Hi, welcome to Wispy Willow Farm! We are the Walz family, and this is a short story of how of our little farm came to be. As children, we both grew up on farms in Northwest Ohio. Working around livestock has been a part of us since a very young age. It was 2014 when we found ourselves living in the suburbs of Cleveland Ohio living the “American Dream” and raising our children.

 

Yet, something was missing… We were being beckoned back to the farm life that we once knew as children. Although life in the suburbs was great, we found it difficult to teach our children the valuable life lessons that just come naturally with life on the farm. We began to pray for an opportunity to move back home to northwest Ohio, and it wasn’t long before the Lord provided the perfect opportunity.

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With a new job, and a new home situated on 10 acres outside the small town of Montpelier, OH we said our goodbyes to Cleveland and went back to our roots. On our last day in Cleveland we purchased 2 Dwarf Nigerian goats to start our small farm with the simple goal of providing milk for our family. We had no idea what we were getting ourselves into! These little lovable caprines stole our hearts and, before long, we found ourselves with a full blown dairy goat herd! Everyone chipped in with the daily operation of the farm, from milking, to feeding bottles, to cleaning pens and the everyday management of our herd.

 

With all the extra goat milk, that is when the Bath & Body Products of Wispy Willow Farm came about. I started handcrafting goat milk soap bars and started selling them at our local farmer's market. And over the years, more and more products were added, I attended more and more markets, and our business began to grow. I started in our kitchen, then moved to the soap kitchen Derek built in our basement, to now opening a new store in our hometown. As our children have grown, we had to sell our goat herd as it became too difficult to keep up with the herd and our growing business. We currently source all our goat milk from a local family friend.  

 

We thank you for taking the time to know more about us and look forward to hearing from you!