Our Story

Knotty Pine Farmstead was started in 2010 when the youngest child of the went to an FFA field day and discovered Polish Chickens. They begged their mom, Corinne, for some, despite their suburban HOA neighborhood in the rolling hills of Stuarts Draft, Virginia. After months of begging, and lots of help from their siblings, Corinne granted the gift of five Polish chickens to her children. Five quickly turned into 30-something after Corinne’s Sunday trip to the feed store, and she just couldn’t pass up on a chick sale for buy one-get-two-free straight run Bantams; and so the farm began.

Corinne and her children moved cross-country to where they are today in Plumas County, California. Since 2010, Corinne has owned, bred, hatched, showed, and raised over 35 breeds of poultry (chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, guinea-fowl, and pea-fowl).

However, in 2016, Corinne’s youngest became fascinated with self-sufficiency and easily convinced her to invest in meat goats! This fascination resulted in the addition of two Boar Goats to the farm, then two Nigerian Dwarf goats who are still with us to this day!

The rest is History, and now Knotty Pine Farmstead, formerly Lilly Mountain Farm, has dedicated its small herd to improving dairy lineage of Nigerian Dwarf goats!