Lakes End Dairy Farm is the new name for an old farm. Let me explain. My husbands family bought the original farm back in the forties. It consisted of 112 acres, a farmhouse and a barn. The farm is located in Alburg, Vermont. Alburg, part of the Lake Champlain Islands, is a small rural community located in the most north west corner of Vermont, right on lake. This unique setting is how we came up with the name LakesEnd. The farm is on West Shore Road, right at the lakes edge. The James family worked the farm until 1967 When tragedy struck. A fire too the barn and thus ended the family farm. In 1977, after Gram's death, the farm was divided up among the surviving children. A few years later my husband and I purchased 28 acres from his Uncle Allyn. Little did we know this was the beginning of our farming career! Almost 20 years later, we are now the last farming James'.
In 1998 we build a new dairy barn. In the spring of 1998 we bought our first farm animals ; two toggenberg goats, Boss and Nelson. The next spring we added three more goats to the herd, Molly, Katie, and Horn. In June of 1999 we purchased tow Jersey calves, Martha and Crissy. Things really got going in October of that year when Ethel and Daisy, two milking Jersey cows, joined the herd. I soon discovered milking cows was one of the coolest things I'd ever done! It was also a real lifestyle change. Both the cows and the family have settled in nicely! That fall Sam, a handsome togg buck, also joined the gang. Thanks to Sam we have freshened the five does and our Misty Cove Blended has begun production.