Poppy Ridge Regenerative Farm
Raise Your Own Dairy Lambs
East Friesian dairy animals from a radiantly healthy, grain-free, pasture-raised flock — with six months of personal mentoring included in every purchase.
Order NowPasture and herbs eaten year round, in season, is how God intended ruminant animals to live — and that philosophy is what makes our milk, and our animals, exceptional.
Brieanne Rice, Poppy Ridge
The Difference
Exceptional Dairy
Our East Friesian flock lives as nature designed ruminants to live — moving across 185 acres of diverse California pasture, browsing hundreds of plant species in season, never eating grain, never receiving a synthetic chemical. This is not just a farming philosophy. It is the biological foundation for animals that produce rich, nutrient-dense milk and pass vibrant health to their offspring.
East Friesian sheep are the world's highest-producing dairy sheep breed. On our management system — deep-rooted silvopasture, daily rotational grazing, mineral-rich forage — they outperform because the inputs they receive are extraordinary. You are not just buying an animal. You are buying the result of decades of obsessive, land-first husbandry.
185
Acres of regenerating pasture
0
Grains or chemicals, ever
3–4
Months on dam before weaning
6
Months mentoring included
Why Sheep Milk
Incredibly Nutritional
Sheep milk contains nearly double the fat and protein of cow's milk, with a fat globule structure that makes it naturally easy to digest. It is richer in conjugated linoleic acid, vitamins A, B12, and D, and calcium — gram for gram, the most nutrient-dense dairy you can produce at home.
When that milk comes from animals grazing across hundreds of plant species on regenerating California silvopasture — absorbing the phytonutrients, minerals, and living complexity of a thriving landscape — the nutritional profile is in a class entirely of its own.
Order NowOur Philosophy
Breeding for Optimal Health
We do not breed for pedigree certificates. We breed for radiant, functional health. Every season, we observe our flock with the discernment of nature's predator — identifying and removing any animal displaying undesirable metabolic, behavioral, or structural traits. What remains is the strongest, most capable, most dairy-forward genetics possible.
Health disorders, metabolic issues, and behavioral problems run rampant in commercial dairy. They do not exist in ours — because we do not tolerate them. When you purchase from Poppy Ridge, you receive the progeny of animals that have proven themselves season after season on demanding terrain, with minimal inputs.
Every lamb stays on its dam for 3–4 months — longer than commercial standard — because we believe this gives each animal the immunological and structural foundation it deserves.
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Young Dairy Lamb
$500Raise your own dairy from our radiantly healthy flock.
- ✓Exceptional grazing genetics
- ✓Proven dairy genetics — bred for health and function
- ✓3–4 months on dam before weaning
- ✓6 months personal flock mentoring included
- ✓Zero grain, zero chemicals — pure pasture genetics
Adult Dairy Sheep
$700Skip ahead with a proven milking adult ewe from our flock .
- ✓Exceptional grazing genetics
- ✓Proven dairy genetics — bred for health and function
- ✓3–4 months on dam before weaning
- ✓6 months personal flock mentoring included
- ✓Zero grain, zero chemicals — pure pasture genetics
Keeping our methods alive
Six Months of Flock Mentoring Included
When you bring home a Poppy Ridge dairy sheep, you don't just receive an animal — you get Brieanne in your corner. Every purchase includes six months of direct mentoring: real guidance on your specific animal, your land, and your dairy goals.
Whether you're learning to hand milk for the first time, setting up rotational grazing on your small homestead, balancing minerals, or navigating your first lambing season — Brieanne draws on decades of experience to guide you confidently.
Milking & Udder Care
Proper technique, milk hygiene, drying off schedules, and udder health monitoring.
Pasture & Nutrition
Grazing rotation basics, plant identification, mineral supplementation, and growing your own fodder.
Lambing & Flock Health
Natural lambing support, parasite management without chemicals, and reading animal behavior.
Using Dairy in a Larger System
How to feed chickens, pigs, and grow people food using your sheep — closing the nutrient loop.