In 1972 our family moved from Los Angeles north to Napa Valley exchanging the smoggy car culture of our urban existence for starry nights and acres of dirt, rock and brush.

We invited dairy goats of the tiny earred LaMancha breed to browse the hillside chaparral and provide us with milk and entertainment. They are still doing that and, as such things evolve, we licensed - in 1992 - a tiny farmhouse cheese "factory."

Click on the buttons for descriptions of our goats and their cheese. "Info" will direct you to our on-going history of the LaMancha breed - "Tale of the Ear."

Barbara and Rex Backus
Saint Helena California


rabackus@sonic.net
Photos of Barbara and Rex by David McReynolds, 2007

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