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This is a story about one of our favorite customers, Scott Stumbo!

Wrought Iron Soaps
www.SonRidgeFarm.com

My family moved to Kings Mountain from Hickory in the summer of ‘99. Though we didn’t get settled in until a while later, we still had a “farm” dream. I got my first dairy goat (an Alpine) in spring 2000. It was just weaned and my sister accidentally let it out, and it became a gourmet meal for a pack of dogs. Later that summer I’d saved up enough money and this time I got one that was bottle fed (so it thinks it is a human), and named her (also an Alpine) Roses. We bred Roses in fall later that year. She kidded mid-June, 2001, and soon I was milking daily at six and six (a.m. and p.m.). With this goat milk I made (and still do make) mozzarella, cottage and feta cheese along with honey cheesecake, fudge and of course- soap.

After months of milking and making these various products I formed Wrought Iron Enterprises (in dreams of having a blacksmith hobby someday). Time wore on, we bred her again and she kidded in March 2002. As a result of all my demonstrations, seminars and homestead tours interest in soap-making has increased such that I now sell goat milk soap-making kits in addition to my soaps. I now have my soap in one store in Hickory and in the bathrooms of many others. Roses died in early 2002 and with insurance money I got two other does that I named Trigonometry and Calculus (I like math!).

Scott Stumbo is an 11 yr old entrepreneur who got his start in business when he was just 5 yrs old. He started by selling fresh flowers, but realized quickly that this limited him to local customers and a small “selling-season”.

He then began gathering seeds from the family’s flower garden, packaging and selling them. At age 6 he had his first catalog which grew to offer 5 varieties of flower seeds. At age 10 he set aside his seed business to concentrate on his newfound goat milk endeavor.

My luxurious goat milk soap is handmade, by myself, in my family's kitchen. I use fresh milk from my own dairy herd. After trying numerous recipes and methods I elected to use coconut oil, palm oil, and olive oil for their moisturizing and lathering qualities. I have chosen for my trademark scent one that was extremely difficult to find, but is appropriate for both men and women. The fat particles in goat's milk are smaller than that of cow's milk. For this reason it is more easily digested by our bodies; and it is also believed that in the same respect it is more easily utilized by our skin. You'll feel the difference!

Goat's Milk Soap by Wrought Iron Soap made with our "Knight Rider" mold.
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Below are pictures of our contest winners. Eeach of these great soap artists received a gift certificate for $100 towards any of our plastic molds.

Moonsnail & Starfish by Kingsbury Soaps	Guest Shell Soaps by Wendy Barnes	Snugly Pigs by Elizabeth Byrne