As you round the curve into Germanton, you see our farm.

 Our 34-acre farm was originally a portion of a former civil war plantation that grew tobacco in the Piedmont of North Carolina.

 The original plantation house stands in the town of Germanton, North Carolina overlooking the valley and within sight of our farm today.

Buffalo Creek is located in one of the last predominantly agricultural areas in Forsyth County.

 Our neighbor, Buffalo Creek Dairy, is the only remaining commercial cow dairy farm in our county and we will be joining them as Forsyth County's only Grade B goat dairy in 2012.

During its lifetime, Buffalo Creek Farm has been a cow dairy farm and a fish farm. Today, it is a dairy goat farm with a few Dorper Cross Hair Sheep, Hereford/Angus Cross cattle and miniature Zebu cattle. Pasture raised hogs will be added to our mix in 2012. Buffalo Creek owners also produce rabbits for training brace beagles for tracking rabbit's footprints, pet rabbits and guinea pigs.

Our family has owned the property since 1992 and has worked to restore the farm's buildings and land to erase the signs of five year's worth of neglect and abandonment while constructing a new commercial farm store and Grade B goat dairy. What started as a farm to board the family's four horses, has developed into a dairy goat farm with a small sheep and cattle operation along with rabbits and guinea pigs.

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.  Eggs are adhesive and laid in clusters under rocks.