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This Is Kidding Season When Baby Goats Are Born

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Celebrity Dairy sign and baby goats

This is kidding season, the special time of year when our baby goats are born. We offer Open Barns several times a year so you can meet our Celebrity Goats. Join us for lots of baby goat cuddling (and their adorable antics) as well as baby goat yoga and a chance to see a goat dairy in action. We might even see some new babies born during the Open Barn!

You’re invited to join us for a homemade lunch of soup and sandwiches here at the Inn, including many vegetarian and gluten-free options. To finish off your meal with something sweet, we’ll have delicious cookies, tasty fudge, and our popular goat milk gelato for sale!

Still not enough entertainment for you? Browse handmade crafts from local vendors or take a walk around our pond with some of our friendly goats for company!

Upcoming 2019 Open Barn Dates and Times:

  • Sat. Feb. 9 at 1 pm
  • Sun. Feb. 10 at 1 pm
  • Sat. Mar. 9 at 1 pm
  • Sun. Mar. 10 at 1 pm

Admission: Advance $10/car plus Eventbrite fee. Day-of admission is cash-only at the Open Barns.
Lunch deal: $10, includes choice of soup or chili (vegetarian or meat based), bread, dessert, and a beverage.
Goat Yoga: Tickets sold separately, to be announced.
Goat Nature Walk: $5 – weather depending, 100% refund in case of rain or excessive cold.

*prices listed before taxes and fees

Questions? Call us at 919-742-5176 or email us at (TheInn@CelebrityDairy.com)!

A portion of proceeds from our Open Barn events go to support the good work of Heifer International. The rest of the proceeds support our goats. Heifer International is a nonprofit organization that has been in operation for over 75 years. They are working with communities all over the world to end world hunger and poverty as well as care for the Earth. They train people in sustainable farming, they help farmers gain access to the market, and they empower women to develop leadership skills so they can have access to greater opportunities including education and entrepreneurship.

Marvelous Mushrooms The Focus at Annual Wellness Dinner

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Our Third Annual Wellness Dinner, Sunday January 20 (from 1:30 pm to 5 pm) focuses on the health benefit of mushrooms with our Special Guests, Ches & Laura Stewart from Haw River Mushrooms, LLC. They may even bring their adorable toddler twins!

The Stewarts grow edible and medicinal mushrooms at their small farm in Saxapahaw, North Carolina. They grow mushrooms both indoors (oyster mushrooms, lions mane, shiitake, cinnamon cap, reishi, king trumpet, etc.) and outdoors (King Stropharia, blewits, log grown lions mane, blue oyster, and shiitake). Laura holds a Wild Mushroom Food Safety Certification which allows her to sell nineteen varieties of seasonal mushrooms.

Their passion for mushrooms increased as they learned more about the culinary diversity of mushrooms (with some tasting like chicken, crab, lobster, and more) as well as the amazing health benefits of mushrooms (including supporting the immune system, boosting mental clarity, and being a healthy source of vitamins and nutritional protein). They will be giving an informative talk about mushrooms and our menu features their mushrooms!

Third Annual Wellness Dinner Menu:

  • Chef’s Choice Appetizers
  • Warm Chaga & Reishi Mushroom Tea
  • Hungarian Mushroom Soup
  • East Branch Ginger, Microgreen, & Citrus Salad
  • Mushroom Pastry
  • Peasant Duck Confit on Quinoa and Brown Rice Pilaf with Sauteed Mustard Greens & Mushrooms
  • Cheese and Fruit Platter
  • Gluten Free and Vegetarian Options Are Available (Upon Request)

Call 919-742-5176 for more information or email (theinn@celebritydairy.com). The Inn at Celebrity Dairy and Celebrity Dairy Farm are located at 144 Celebrity Dairy Way in Siler City, North Carolina. To purchase tickets online, click here.

Our Sunday Dinners are always on the third Sunday of the month in our spacious great room (with indoor air conditioning in the summer and a warm fire in the winter). We look forward to seeing our guests! Guests can also tour the barn (and meet our friendly goats) and we can show you around our cheese room. Bring your appetites to our Annual Wellness Dinner!

Happy Holidays from Celebrity Dairy to You

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Happy Holidays from Celebrity Dairy to you! Brit and Fleming Pfann of Celebrity Dairy are pleased to have such a hardworking and fun-loving staff. With such a variety of responsibilities, we all use our talents to serve our human guests:

  • Provide fresh, complimentary breakfasts for our overnight guests each morning
  • Offer eight clean guest rooms that can be reserved by groups
  • Use the goat milk to make our award-winning goat cheese and our goats milk bar soaps
  • Present multi-course Third Sunday Dinners each month for a small gathering
  • Sell our products at local Farmers Markets (cheese, gelato, T-shirts, soaps, etc.)
  • Host elegant weddings (both indoor and outdoor weddings with the option for a tent)
  • Prepare lunch made of local seasonal foods combined with a tour of the dairy and inn

Plus we serve our animal friends (including our celebrity goats):

  • See that they receive proper nutrition, vaccinations, and veterinary care
  • Let them take shelter inside the barn when weather requires it
  • Take care of pregnant mama goats and deliver their kids (baby goats)
  • Regularly milk our dairy goats in our milking parlor
  • Give our goats the opportunity to interact with their adoring public at our Open Barn Events

We recently had two early surprise babies! Did you know that mama goats can carry 1, 2, or up to 3 baby goats at a time? Another interesting fact is that goat’s milk is the most popular kind of milk worldwide!

We welcome you to stay overnight as a B&B guest, tour our farm, come to one of our many public events, or see us at a local Farmers Market. All of us at The Inn at Celebrity Dairy and Celebrity Dairy Farm bid you Season’s Greetings. Happy Holidays from Celebrity Dairy to you!

P.S. We can always use more volunteers to help us in 2019! Find out more here.

Celebrating That Celebrity Dairy’s Now on Pinterest

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The Inn at Celebrity Dairy’s now on Pinterest! We feature a variety of boards with amazing pictures and tips. We are always pinning new Pinterest pins and creating new Pinterest boards with themes. Here is a list (in alphabetical order) of our current Pinterest boards:

  • Books: Bed and Breakfast
  • Books: Quotes
  • Celebrity Dairy Blog
  • Celebrity Dairy Events
  • Celebrity Dairy Farm and Grounds
  • Celebrity Dairy Food
  • Celebrity Dairy Goat Humor
  • Celebrity Dairy Goats
  • Celebrity Dairy Goat Cheese
  • Celebrity Dairy Inn
  • Celebrity Dairy Inn Rooms
  • Celebrity Dairy Open Barns
  • Celebrity Dairy Soap
  • Celebrity Dairy Third Sundays
  • Celebrity Dairy Weddings
  • Chatham County NC History
  • DIY Furniture Painting
  • DIY Wreaths: Fall
  • DIY Wreaths: Winter
  • DIY Gardening
  • DIY Gardening Containers
  • Goat Art
  • Goat Barns
  • Goats of Anarchy in NJ
  • Holidays: Christmas
  • Holidays: Cinco de Mayo
  • Holidays: Easter Celebration
  • Holidays: Halloween
  • Holidays: Patriotic
  • Holidays: St. Patrick’s Day
  • Holidays: Thanksgiving
  • Local Restaurants and Shops
  • North Carolina Birds
  • North Carolina Nature
  • North Carolina State Facts
  • Pittsboro Carolina Tiger Rescue
  • Practical Household Tips
  • Pretty Pillows
  • Pretty Quilts
  • Recipes: Breakfast
  • Recipes: Cookies
  • Recipes: Gluten-Free
  • Recipes: Goat’s Milk and Cheese
  • Recipes: Pies
  • Recipes: Southern Cooking
  • Seasons: Fall
  • Seasons: Spring
  • Seasons: Summer
  • Seasons: Winter
  • Siler City Area Food
  • Things to Do in Siler City
  • Travel and Success Quotes
  • Travel Journal
  • Travel Tips
  • Weddings in the Fall
  • Weddings in the Spring
  • Weddings in the Summer
  • Weddings in the Winter
  • Why You Should Travel

According to Hootsuite, a social media management platform, every day 2 million people post pins, resulting in a total of more than 100 billion pins currently living on Pinterest. The Inn at Celebrity Dairy and Celebrity Dairy Farm are pleased to regularly post pins. We also share our blog posts on the Celebrity Dairy Blog board.

We plan on featuring more DIY (do it yourself) project ideas, holiday pins, and more delicious recipes. Email us at (theinn@celebritydairy.com) if you have any suggestions for what you would like to see us add to our Pinterest collection. Remember Celebrity Dairy’s now on Pinterest. Check us out and follow us!

Traditional English Christmas Dinner at the Dairy Farm

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You and your loved ones are invited to our Traditional English Christmas Dinner at the Dairy Farm on the Third Sunday, December 16 at 1:30 pm.

Christmas Dinner at the Dairy Farm Menu:

  • Mulled Cider
  • Sampler Plate of Our Cheese and Chef’s Choice Appetizers
  • Smoked Duck and Walnut on Winter Greens
  • Champaign Vinaigrette
  • Herbed Yorkshire Pudding
  • Prime Rib Roast on Garlic Mashed Potatoes and Root Vegetables
  • Brussel Sprouts
  • Plum Pudding with Hard Sauce
  • Tea and Coffee
  • Christmas Cookies to Take Home

Hot Mulled Cider is heated to a temperature just below boiling with cinnamon, orange peel, nutmeg, cloves, or other spices added. After heating the drink will mulled spices, the cider is strained before it is served.

Of course we feature our Famous Celebrity Goat Cheeses on our sampler plate of cheeses. We’ll also include a selection of other tasty choice appetizers.

Yorkshire Pudding is a rich, savory roll or popover doused with gravy. Sometimes the meat’s pan drippings are mixed into the batter to enhance its meaty goodness.

Despite the name “plum pudding,” the pudding contains no actual plums. Raisins were sometimes called plums in the 19th century, but only when they were in a plum pudding or plum cake.

What’s more English than tea? Tea rooms can be found in most towns and many villages in the United Kingdom.

Traditional English Christmas cookies include biscuits, tea cakes, and short bread. We will offer a variety of festive and delicious Christmas cookies which our guests are welcome to take home with them.

After our Traditional English Dinner and before our delicious dessert, guests of the Christmas Dinner at the Dairy Farm are invited to meet our friendly Celebrity Goats. Our Celebrity Dairy Goats give us the ability to produce goat’s milk, goat cheeses, and goat soaps.

We look forward to receiving guests on this Third Sunday Dinner. A Christmas Dinner at the Dairy Farm with traditional English faire.

Why You Will Enjoy Our Thanksgiving Dinner at the Farm

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The Inn at Celebrity Dairy and Celebrity Dairy Farm invite you to enjoy our Third Sunday Thanksgiving Dinner at the Farm.

Our Thanksgiving Dinner at the Farm Menu:

  • Sparkling Cider
  • Assorted Goat Cheese Sampler Platter
  • Chef’s Choice Appetizers
  • Creamed Shiitake Mushroom Soup
  • Turkey Roulade
  • Fall Greens with Garlic and Bell Peppers
  • Roasted Sweet Potatoes
  • Cranberry Nut Muffins with Pumpkin Butter
  • Gwen’s Apple Pie with Ginger Gelato
  • Tea and Coffee

Thanksgiving is a national holiday celebrated in the United States on the fourth Thursday in November. American’s trace the holiday to a 1621 celebration at Plymouth Plantation. In 1789, after a request from Congress, the 1st United States President, George Washington, made a proclamation for the nation to celebrate Thanksgiving. It began as a harvest festival. In 1863, during Abraham Lincoln’s presidency, Thanksgiving became a federal holiday.

The Inn at Celebrity Dairy and Celebrity Dairy Farm is thankful for the people and animals who make our work possible. The people who are B&B guests at our inn, who attend our events including Open Barns and Third Sunday Dinners, those attending Farmers Markets, and for local restaurants who buy our products. Without our adorable Celebrity Dairy Goats, we could not produce our healthy goat’s milk, our award-winning goat cheese, and our goat soaps.

If you want to celebrate Thanksgiving you are invited to our Celebrity Dairy Farm! After the meal (and before Gwen’s Apple Pie and our Ginger Gelato Dessert), we allow guests to visit with our friendly Celebrity Goats. You are welcome to take pictures and, if you would like to, we even let you hold our adorable baby goats!

The Thanksgiving holiday is intended for remembering what we are thankful for and for spending time with loved ones enjoying our many blessings like delicious food. We look forward to having you dine with us at our Thanksgiving Dinner at the Farm here in Siler City, North Carolina at the Inn at Celebrity Dairy. Call (919) 742-5176 to speak with us about attending.

Why You Need To Tour Chatham Art Studios

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2018 26th Chatham Studio Tour presented by Chatham Artists Guild

Tour Chatham Art Studios during the first two weekends in December. The Chatham Artists Guild Studio Tour features the work of over fifty talented artists in many studios across Chatham County.

The Tour Exhibit and Information Hub is located at the Chatham Arts Council on 118 West Street in Pittsboro, North Carolina. Call 919-542-0394. You can pick up a map, speak to docents, and see works by Tour Artists.

All Studio Tour events are free and open to the public. These galleries feature one example of each artist’s work in one location. The Studio Tour is self-guided.

Our Tour Artists Make Art in a Variety of Forms:

  • Ceramics
  • Drawings
  • Fiber
  • Glass
  • Jewelry
  • Mixed Media
  • Paintings
  • Pastels
  • Photography
  • Sculptures
  • Wood

The First Weekend: 

Saturday Dec. 1, 2018 (from 10 am to 5 pm)

Sunday Dec. 2, 2018 (from Noon to 5 pm)

The Second Weekend:

Saturday Dec. 8, 2018 (from 10 am to 5 pm)

Sunday Dec. 9, 2018 (from Noon to 5 pm)

New Artists of 2018

  • Heather Gerni
  • Selden Lamoureux
  • Gina Harrison
  • Linda Collura
  • Rhonda Weaver-Brand
  • Leslie Palmer
  • Craig Grenier
  • Lee Kazanas
  • Yvette Poole
  • Julie Uhler
  • Bronwyn Watson
  • Andrew Wilson
  • Kim Campbell
  • Matthew Leavitt

The Inn at Celebrity Dairy is close to many of the artists’ studios. You need to see their incredible talent up close!

We offer eight guest rooms for overnight stays. Several of our rooms can accommodate more than two people so we are an ideal place for reunions and retreats.

We are located on our Celebrity Dairy Farm, a goat farm with a milking station. On site, we also make award-winning cheeses and a variety of our goat’s milk bars of soap.

Our guests are welcome to meet our Celebrity Goats and their kids. Our friendly baby goats are known for being adorably playful! You’re welcome to take lots of pictures with them.

We serve complimentary breakfasts to our guests each morning. Guests love our delicious recipes with our fresh goat’s milk and selection of cheeses. We look forward to your stay with us!

The Best Ever Fun Fall Farm Festival

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best every fun fall festival, baby goats, Celebrity Dairy Farm, fall leavesThe best ever fun Fall Farm Festival (Sunday October 14 from 2 to 5 pm) will celebrate the autumn season here at Celebrity Dairy. Fall is that special time of the year that offers cooler weather and gorgeous leaves changing colors.

Our main feature, fun hayrides, will be quite the treat! Our family-friendly hayrides let you go past the goat and llama fields, through the woods and around the 14-acre pond where blue herons and egrets visit. Then back around to our 8-room Inn at Celebrity Dairy.

Fun games will be set up around the inn lawn including croquet, horseshoes, giant Jenga, corn hole, and more! The goats will be out to make sure that rules are followed and that people take turns.

We will have fun arts and crafts sessions all through the event. Including, a coloring contest with fun prizes! Don’t forget we have adorable baby goats for you to meet!

Enter to win our raffle for a one-night stay or farm dinner for two. The one-night stay includes breakfast with farm fresh eggs and our award winning goat cheese on the table. You can even make it out to the barns during milking time. The dinner for two will be your choice of one of the upcoming Third Sunday 3 or 4 course dinners and a farm tour. There’s other prizes, too!

Celebrity Dairy will have an activity with all the fun of a “cake walk” but it will be our farm made goods as prizes! This includes our award-winning goat cheese, delicious goats milk fudge, and our popular goats milk gelato. Also, T-shirts, goats milk soaps, and gluten-free granola from the inn.

In the inn we will be offering baked goods and other snacks. We will also have our cheeses and other farm goods available! We look forward to seeing you on the farm! Click here for our Eventbrite Tickets page!

How To Become A Celebrity Dairy Volunteer

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become a celebrity dairy volunteer, Celebrity Dairy Farm, goatsWould you like to become a Celebrity Dairy volunteer? There are many ways you can volunteer to help us. We are a farm that stays busy doing work that we love.  It would be made even more special if we could share it with friends.

Possible volunteer tasks include:

  • Feeding and cuddling kids (baby goats) during kidding season (January to April)
  • Sharing information about our goats with Celebrity Dairy guests and visitors
  • Showing off our goats at Open Barn Events
  • Cleaning our barn and pasture
  • Repairing our fence
  • Providing other support at our special events
  • Gardening (especially for those who have been called “green thumbs”)

Of course, any amount of time you spend with us we greatly appreciate, however, we especially need volunteers who can  commit to at least two four-hour shifts per month. This gives you a chance to really learn how our farm works and for us to use our volunteer resources wisely. We ask that you first attend a brief tour and introduction session before making a commitment to do volunteer work with us.

Volunteers who can work with us regularly will be first in line to assist during kidding season and who would not want to cuddle and bottle feed adorable baby goats?! You will get to try our cheese, gelato, fudge, and soap and observe the process of making our goat milk products. Plus, we offer discounts on stays at the Inn at Celebrity Dairy and Special Events to our volunteers.

If you cannot make a long-term commitment, we can make arrangements for groups of five or more to take on larger projects. This is an opportunity to get your hands dirty on the farm and bond with your friends and co-workers!

Get a taste of volunteering with us at our First Sunday Open Workdays from 1 to 5 pm followed by a potluck supper and desserts from the Dairy. Anyone interested in volunteering may email us (theinn@celebritydairy.com) or call us (919-742-5176).

Please let us know the times and how often you are available to volunteer as well as if you have any physical restrictions. We appreciate your willingness to learn how you can help out The Inn at Celebrity Dairy and the Celebrity Dairy Farm.

East Branch Ginger Thai Third Sunday Dinner

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The Inn at Celebrity Dairy hosts Third Sunday Dinners throughout the year. Each event offers a festive new theme and a delicious new menu. On Sunday, September 16 (from 1:30 to 4:30 pm) will be the East Branch Ginger Thai Third Sunday Dinner at The Inn at Celebrity Dairy (144 Celebrity Dairy Way in Siler City, North Carolina).

Gloria, our official spokes goat, invites you to enjoy a special meal at Celebrity Dairy. Starting at 1:30 pm on Third Sundays, we share our passion for seasonal and local food with just 30 people in a sit-down three or four course meal. We always start with socializing over our award-winning goat cheese appetizers.

Guests are invited to bring their favorite wine or beer to accompany dinner. An after-dinner barn tour allows guests to meet our celebrity goats, and to let dinner settle before enjoying dessert and coffee. Our Celebrity Dairy Farm is the source for our delightful goat milk and delectable goat cheese.

This Thai Third Sunday Dinner is special.  Thai Cuisine is known for its intricacy, attention to detail, texture, color, taste, and the use of ingredients with medicinal benefits, as well as good flavor. Those preparing Thai Cuisine prefer using fresh herbs and spices rather than dried. Like most other Asian cuisines, rice is their staple grain.

Our East Branch Ginger Thai Third Sunday Dinner Menu:

  • Mango Spritzer
  • Rice Paper Wraps
  • Stuffed Eggs (Kai Kwan)
  • Mikimono Fruit & Vegetables
  • Coconut Soup
  • Apple Ginger Salad (Yam Ma Muang)
  • Pork & Crab Balls (Pratad Lom)
  • Chicken in Coconut milk (Tom Kha Kai)
  • Almond Curd with Lichee Nuts
  • Crisp Ginger Cookies
  • Hot Tea and Coffee

Dinners are normally $60/person, which includes tax & gratuity. Your advance registration and payment confirms your reservation. Prices for special menu dinners prepared by guest chefs may differ. Thai Third Sunday Dinner guests are also invited to spend the night in any of our eight available guest rooms (before and/or after the dinners).