Summary: <a href="http://offthegridbiz.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Author-2018-Edit-Small-scaled.jpg"></a>Gianaclis Caldwell<br> <br> <a href="http://offthegridbiz.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/18691.jpg"></a>Holistic Goat Care<br> <br> Some people are just experts in the subjects they excel in.<br> <br> Others are experts with a joy for helping others and learning from those they interact with.<br> <br> Tune into this podcast and checkout some of the links below, and it won't take long to get an impression that Gianaclis is the latter.<br> <br> Now, I could spend time talking about her love for Nigerian Dwarf Goats here.<br> <br> Or perhaps her extensive knowledge in Cheesemaking.<br> <br> Possibly even her 6 nonfiction books or her ventures into fiction writing.<br> <br> Maybe you'd even like me to spill the beans on her thoughts on speaking and teaching classes?<br> <br> Well I'm not going to do that, no, not at all.<br> <br> But if you want to know more about the subjects we cover in this episode, please checkout the links below, because Gianaclis is someone you'll want to follow and learn from!<br> <br> Checkout Gianaclis's books, future classes, consults and more at her website and Facebook page -<br> <br> <a href="https://gianacliscaldwell.com/">https://gianacliscaldwell.com/</a><br> <br> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/gianaclis/">https://www.facebook.com/gianaclis/</a><br> <br> For more about Pholia Farm - <a href="https://pholiafarm.com/">https://pholiafarm.com/</a><br> Transcription<br> Brian: Oregon native Gianaclis Caldwell grew up milking cows, but was lowered to the goat side where she remains a committed devotee. She was a commercial cheesemaker at the Caldwell Off Grid Dairy Pholia Farm for over 10 years.<br> <br> She now milks her Nigerian dwarf goats just for pleasure. In between writing books in which he has six, speaking, and judging cheese, which she considers the most fun.<br> <br> Gianaclis Caldwell, welcome to The Off The Grid Biz Podcast.<br> <br> Gianaclis: Well, thank you, Brian. Thanks for having me.<br> <br> Brian: Yeah, so why don't you tell us a little bit about what it is that you do on a regular basis?<br> <br> Gianaclis: Oh, gosh, it sure varies from day to day. And I was just talking to my mother about people who are drawn to this kind of life really have to be nonlinear, because you just can't really schedule your day or your week sometimes with animals and farm life and that sort of thing.<br> <br> So still milking the goats, you were very correct and I do it for pleasure, love having them can just working with the animals. We've been breeding the Nigerians now since 2003, and have developed a good name for the breed or as a breeder, I should say, of Nigerian dwarfs. Particularly for strong, long milking animals and with good milk production for that breed.<br> <br> And that's, that's something that's hard to imagine. And we're getting older now, of course, as we all do. But it's difficult to imagine giving up but that process of working on a breed and all those those genetics and all those improvements, and of course, there's this addiction that every goat person will confess to.<br> <br> I think about waiting for those babies to come every year. And goat babies are there's a good reason that they're all over YouTube and such.<br> <br> They're they're so appealing, and they pretty much stay that way as adults.<br> <br> So we work our local farm is mostly a pleasure farm now, we do Airbnb with a couple of farms days we have, and that keeps us busy also, but it's a great income stream for the farm supplement a lot of the feed bills and that sort of thing.<br> <br> And then working on books, which you said correctly, six nonfiction books and now I'm switching to what was originally my first passion which is trying to and I say that becaus...
