Welcome...
This is Chaos Magik Homestead—a little patch of Mississippi where livestock, sourdough, gardens, handmade goods, and a whole lot of beautifully organized chaos come together.
We’re a family-run, suburban homestead tucked into just one acre along the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. What began as a homeschool science project with only 1/4 acre of land, eighteen eggs, a borrowed incubator, a handful of pallets, and four curious kids has grown into something we never could have imagined.
We didn’t set out to build a farm.
We just kept following one little adventure after another.
First came the chickens. Then the compost because, well… chickens make a lot of it. Then came the garden because compost needs somewhere to go. The rabbits followed because they’re wonderful little garden companions and their manure makes excellent fertilizer. Then came the goats, and with them came milk, soap, body care, cheese-making dreams, show seasons, and an entirely new level of chaos.
Somewhere along the way, we realized we weren’t just keeping animals or growing a garden.
We were building a way of life.
The Dairy Goats
These days, the heart of Chaos Magik is our dairy goat herd.
We primarily raise Nigerian Dwarf goats, along with a token LaMancha and a Mini-Mancha dream! We love the goats personalities, their versatility, and most of all, the rich milk that makes so many of our homestead projects possible.
Our goats are more than livestock.
They are carefully bred, well-loved members of our homestead.
We believe in responsible breeding, thoughtful animal care, and raising healthy, well-rounded goats that can excel both on the milk stand and in the show ring.
We’re active in the dairy goat community and enjoy sharing that experience with our kids and other young people. Raising goats teaches lessons you can’t always learn from a book—responsibility, patience, hard work, and occasionally, the importance of having a sense of humor.
And around here, nothing goes to waste.
Their milk becomes part of our Apothecary.
Their manure feeds the garden.
Their care teaches responsibility.
And their personalities provide endless entertainment.
The Bakery
Then there’s the “accidental bakery.”
Baking has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. It’s a family tradition passed from mother to daughter through generations, and I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the women who helped shape my presence in the kitchen.
I’ve been baking since I was a preschooler making cookies for Sunday School. Sourdough, though, was a completely different story.
That started as a homestead project.
And then I got a little carried away—okay, very carried away.
I fell in love with the slow fermentation, the simplicity of the ingredients, and the whole process of turning flour, water, and a little time into something people actually want to eat.
The bakery itself?
That was an accident.
We had eggs to sell, but I didn’t really want to be “the lady with the egg stand.” So I thought, why not sell some bread, too?
Because apparently, when you have extra eggs, the logical next step is to start a bakery.
And, as tends to happen around here, one little idea turned into another not so little project.
Our cottage bakery is small by design, with handcrafted sourdough breads made in small batches right here at Chaos Magik.
We keep things pretty simple. Our loaves start with flour, water, salt, and sourdough starter, and then we have a little fun with them.
Our menu is simple too, with our staple classic sourdough, Italian Parmesan, Jalapeño Cheddar, and a few sweet treats for special occasions.
Sourdough is slow.
It requires patience.
And occasionally, it requires me to remind myself that the dough is not, in fact, going to hurry just because I have things to do.
But that’s part of what I love about it.
There are no shortcuts here.
Just good ingredients, an old-fashioned process, and a family tradition that started long before Chaos Magik.
The Apothecary
Unlike almost everything else on the homestead—the Apothecary wasn’t an accident.
The goats came here because I knew I wanted to make soap.
There was just something I loved about taking the rich, creamy milk from our own dairy goats and turning it into something useful and nourishing for our skin, with simple ingredients I could choose and control.
So the goats came home, the soap supplies came out, and The Apothecary was officially born.
But honestly, everything we make in the apothecary has a reason.
It comes from the rhythm of the barn, the seasons, and simply figuring out what our own family needs.
I have sensitive skin, and so does one of my kids, so we started making our own goat-milk soaps so we could control what we put on our skin.
The Gulf Coast heat and humidity leave my skin ridiculously dry, so we made body butter.
The gnats around here think we are an all-you-can-eat buffet, so we made bug oil—and, thankfully, it actually works.
Nothing in The Apothecary is made just because we thought it might be fun to sell.
We make things because we need them, we use them, and we believe in what goes into them.
Today, we make goat-milk soaps, body butters, oils, and other small-batch goods using simple ingredients and old-fashioned inspiration.
We like knowing what goes into the things we use.
We like making useful things.
And we love being able to share the things that have become part of our own family’s everyday life.
Made for our family. Made with purpose. Made here at Chaos Magik.
The Homestead
But Chaos Magik is bigger than goats, bread, and soap.
It’s the rhythm of the barn in the early morning, feeding animals before the coffee is finished, gathering eggs, tending the garden, and finding ways to make what we have stretch a little further. It’s children learning by doing, reclaimed wood becoming something useful, and yesterday’s scraps becoming tomorrow’s compost.
It’s growing what we can, preserving what we can, making what we need, and figuring things out as we go. Sometimes that means learning a new skill. Sometimes it means trying something we’ve never done before. And sometimes it means watching a carefully made plan go completely sideways.
Frequently.
We’re not a picture-perfect homestead. We don’t have hundreds of acres, a giant farmhouse, or everything figured out. We have one acre, a whole lot of animals, a growing list of projects, and an unreasonable amount of enthusiasm for trying new things. And we love it!
The name Chaos Magik is a pretty good description of how we got here. There has been plenty of Chaos—the unexpected projects, the animals we didn’t plan for, the things that broke, the experiments that failed, and the occasional “well, I guess we’re doing this now.”
But there has been plenty of Magik, too.
It’s watching an egg hatch, growing food from a handful of seeds, milking a goat and turning that milk into something completely different, or feeding a sourdough starter and turning flour, water, and time into bread. It’s the satisfaction of taking something simple and creating something useful with your own two hands.
And somewhere in all of that, we found something we didn’t expect when we started: a little more peace.
The rhythm of the barn, the responsibility of caring for something outside ourselves, and the simple satisfaction of making and growing things have become an important part of our family’s well-being. This homestead has given us more than animals, gardens, products, and projects. It has given us a way of life that feels like ours.
That is Chaos Magik Homestead—a small farm built around our dairy goats, a cottage bakery, a little apothecary, a garden, a workshop, and a family that is always learning how to do a little more with a little less.
Everything we offer comes from that same philosophy:
Simple. Useful. Homemade. Purposeful.
Made with what we have. Made with what we love. And always with a little bit of Chaos and a whole lot of Magik.
Welcome to our homestead.
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