08/09/2026
Your periodic reminder that our old pal, Jess, has built up something awesome out at the edge of the Bohemie Alps east of town at Windy Goat Acres
Hi! Jess here. 👋
I am the co-owner of 🐐Windy Goat Acres🐐, which is a unique farmstay in the Bohemie Alps of Tama Co. In the last 5 years, we,(myself and Jim) have built it up, grassroots style, with the cutest yurts, cabins, and a hobbit house!
We host retreats, artists and musicians, mermaids and the Sasquatch? And just folks that want to enjoy a peaceful place that supports biodiversity, wildlife and nature conservation, creativity, and the love for animals.
I am a creative, an artist, herbalist, wildlife enthusiast and conservationist that also loves all animals.
I just wanted to take a real moment to say that when you book a farmstay at Windy Goat, that, although at times it may feel like it, you are not walking into an instagram reel or storybook version of a homestead/animal sanctuary life.
This is an every creative woman’s (and man’s) homestead. Yes, it’s beautiful, but it’s not curated all the time. It’s also useful, unfinished, slightly chaotic, and deeply personal. This place is an extension of myself and Jim. 😁
Windy Goat is not a high budget corporate facility, a page from a magazine, or a show farm. It looks like a homestead that is actively living, making, experimenting, failing, learning, hosting, growing, and changing on site. And you’ll probably see some of that while you are here.
This life can be so often romanticized on social media, but the unromantic parts are the parts they don’t show very often.
I’d be happy to show you! It’s an overwhelming and out of control garden and digging through the weeds to find a turnip, things constantly breaking at the most unfortunate times, an animal getting sick and having to drop everything to care for it, physical and mental exhaustion at the end of the day, alll the laundry a woman can manage, the creative work that doesn’t get to happen, the 7 unfinished projects laying around, cereal for dinner, and the occasional questioning of why I thought it was a good idea. 😂🙏🤦🏻♀️
So when you stay here, remember we are always going out of our way to give you the best experience possible, to gift you that romanticized version of the homesteading and animal sanctuary life, but we are also running around doing the messy and chaotic homestead life behind the scenes that you may or may not know about😂♥️🫶 🐐
If you want to come check it out, I’ll leave the Hipcamp booking link in the comments!
