MOUNT VERNON — If you’re looking to support a billie, and local goat farmers, Angry Acres Farm might be the store for you.
From hand-made soaps, lotions and lip balm, Angry Acres Farm now has a storefront at 51 Public Square, which opened Friday.
Founded in 2012, the Carman family started on a five-acre homestead, with the name Angry Acres.
The business began making soaps with goat milk in 2018.
The Carman’s have a herd of goats including Alpine, Nigerian Dwarf and Recorded Grade Goats.
Savannah Carman showed goats while in 4-H but had to find a new use for them once she aged out of the agriculture youth program.
The Martinsburg farm is filled with other critters including chickens, pigs and dogs.
The goal of the storefront is to make the farm self-sustainable, which has been completed, Carman said.
The cold-pressed soaps are made in food storage containers, mixed together and left to sit for 24 hours. The soap is left on a rock to dry for six weeks, which helps with the curing process.
After it’s cured, the soap is packaged into the corn-based packaging instead of plastic.
Goat milk is known to have the same pH level as human skin, owner and father Christopher Carman said.
The Carmans will continue to sell their products at the Mount Vernon Farmers Market and crafting shows along at the storefront.
They have bookings at craft shows until December.
“We were joking around the last year or so about getting a storefront and I saw a For Rent sign up in the window around Black Friday and just thinking ‘I’d be nice to have a physical location instead of looking for places every weekend to be at.'” Christopher Carman said.
Editor’s Note: A former version of this story had the farm at Millersburg. It’s been corrected to Martinsburg in this updated version.