About Us

The Sandy Ridge Farm is a Veteran Owned 10 -acre homestead located in Bristol (Liberty County) Florida that was established in 2018.  Our family moved here from Hollywood/Ft. Lauderdale just in time for Hurricane Michael. We hadn’t experienced enough hurricanes down there (Andrew, Wilma Etc.) that we thought we would see what it was like to experience a 2nd CAT 5 hurricane.

As you can see in our photos in the gallery, we started with 10 acres of sand pines and scrub brush and have 5 acres of pasture, a yard and 1 acre of garden area now and we are still clearing land.

We started with two goats that we had purchased through a local friend to help clear land. Little did we know that we were not prepared for Houdini.  Both goats got out, went to a cow farm a mile down the road. The owner was gracious enough to put them in a fenced in 10 acres area by themselves but his neighbors’ dogs got in a killed them. That was our 1st learning lesson in owning goats. As an old timer with goats told me, the only way to keep goats 100% in was to put them in the freezer. (LOL) We then purchased the Matriarch of our heard. She came pregnant and had our 1st kids on the farm (Easter and Sunday because they were born Easter Sunday morning). We then purchased Lambie and our stud Patches (our stud) from two different registered farms. We are now 12 goats on the farm. We started to sale kid goats last year males only at the time. We now sale both male and females.

Then came the chickens! Last year we purchased our first 8 laying hens. At first it was supposed to be for eggs for the family. Once local people found out we had free ranging hens they started asking to purchase eggs from us. It got to the point that we didn’t have any eggs for our family; thus, the egg business was born. We now have over 30 laying hens for the farm and will be raising more to sale to the public.

We now have two pigs. We will be raising them for meat for both our family and for sale to the local community. Just Like the goats , within the first five minutes one of them got out and took off through the woods. After about 40 minutes of looking for her we came back to the pen just to find it there wanting to get back in. Who knew she’d come back on her own?

In the past 3 years we have learned so much about homesteading. The local community is a great resource of information and YouTube is a wonderful invention. Oh, how I wished it was around in my younger years. We’ve learned so much in the last 3 years.

We would like to give a special THANK-YOU to Zann and Shane over at LovesLaborFarm.com for all of their sharing of knowledge. Please visit their site and give them support also.