Boones Farm

Boone’s Farm and the Siskiyou Crest Goat Dairy
5758 Sterling Creek Road, Jacksonville

Saturday May 12 2008 is Farm Day at Boones Farm. Mookie will give tours of his vegetable fields, micro-creamery, milking parlor and goat barn beginning each hour. Sample locally produced artisan goat cheese and grass-finished beef chili. You can meet this season’s baby goat kids and other farm animals.
Learn more about the Siskiyou Sustainable Cooperative and our Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program

Directions to Boones Farm:

From Jacksonville, make a left on Oregon Street (heading away from Medford). Make a left on Applegate. Make a left onto Sterling Creek road and follow for approximately 5 miles to 5758

Farm:

Boones Farm/Siskiyou Crest Goat Dairy is a 64 acre farm with three acres under vegetable cultivation and a herd of 20+ milking does. We sell 90% of our produce to a CSA co-op in which we are a member farm. We use our wonderful goats milk to produce hand crafted artisan style cheeses of all types. Workers here should have a interest in animal husbandry as well as organic vegetable growing. There are currently three full time farmers and we could use a couple more!

Farmer: Mookie Moss

Mookie Moss of Boones Farm and the Siskiyou Crest Goat Dairy began farming at the age of twenty. He grew up in Colorado and studied botany and biology before leaving college to farm. Between 1995 and 1999, he interned at eight different farms, mostly in Marin and Sonoma counties in California, started a farm in New York and ran his own vegetable business. In 2000, he moved up to Oregon and found land on Sterling Creek Road which immediately felt like home. Mookie realized early on that he would have to diversify his agricultural pursuits, as limited water at Boones Farm prohibited large scale vegetable production. Having managed a herd of goat bucks in California, Mookie decided to acquire a few nubian goats. He loved working with animals and saw the economic potential in increasing demand for goat dairy products.

He is steadily building up his herd which currently stands at 50 head. By the end of the summer, he will have 20 does in milk production. Besides caring for the animals, milking and making cheese, Mookie also grows 2 acres of vegetables. On rare occasions, he can be spotted paragliding over Woodrat Mountain near Ruch.

Farm Name: Boones Farm/Siskiyou Crest Goat Dairy
Address: 5758 Sterling Creek rd, Jacksonville,  OR, 97530
Phone: Home 541-899-1694
Contact: Mookie Moss