As you round the curve into Germanton, you see our farm. Our 35-acre farm was originally a portion of a former civil war plantation that grew tobacco in the Piedmont of North Carolina.
Buffalo Creek is located in one of the last predominantly agricultural areas in Forsyth County, which contains Forsyth County’s only commercial cow dairy along with our goat dairy. Our area was adopted into Forsyth County’s Voluntary Agricultural District in 2008.
In 2011, we began construction of our handicap accessible Farm Store and creamery. In the Farm Store, located on the top floor, is where our farmstead goat’s milk cheese, Goat-La-To and farmstead meats are sold along with our goat’s milk soap and other local North Carolina products. This is also the place where you can view a video tour of cheese production in the creamery, our farm, farm products, and livestock (dairy goats, sheep, and our livestock guardians). We became a licensed farmstead Grade B goat dairy in 2012 and now produce aged raw milk cheeses and fresh chevres along with feta, Farmers Cheese and Queso Fresco. In 2023, we added Goat-La-To, a goat milk clean-label all natural frozen dairy dessert.
During its lifetime, Buffalo Creek Farm has been a cow dairy farm and a fish farm. Today, it is a Nubian dairy goat farm with a few Katahdin Cross hair sheep and turkeys.
Buffalo Creek bisects our farm and flows to the Dan River.
The stream is home to Riverweed Darter, Etheostoma podostemone. They have large pectoral fins, high dorsal fins, eyes almost on top of head, rounded tail fin, elongated body, blunt nose and terminal mouth, “XW” shaped blotches or evenly spaced spots on side of body, dorsal and tail fins yellow with light orange spots, lower fins dark, and green and yellow body. They live in streams and rivers with clean, loose boulders, rubble and gravel in swift runs and riffles in the Dan River watershed. They eat insects, mites, snails and fish eggs. Their eggs are adhesive and laid in clusters under rocks.
Since purchasing the farm in 1992, we have been featured in these news articles: PRESS-1 >>