Important Calendar Info

Since you’ve asked….

We’ve received emails, comments on the website/blog and inquiries during conversation : “When is the next Goat Hill show?” The fall event will be held on September 15th and 16th, 2012!

 

 

Many updates will be posted here. The blog will continue. Check back at this site for photos of the Spring Goat Hill Fair. Be sure to go to Goat Hill Fair’s Facebook page and “Like” us! All of these informative spaces are continuing to be improved upon. We are currently in meetings to brainstorm, learn from suggestions given and challenge ourselves to go uphill {Goat Hill} from here!

 

 

See you when the days are shorter, the goats are larger, and the offerings at Goat Hill are more luscious and ripe for the picking {if that’s even possible}!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Take A Sunday Drive

Grab a cup of coffee in the morn, load your flea market basket in the car and head over Hw.17 to see us at Goat Hill.  Here’s a little peek {through my lens} of what you saw today…. or what you missed - if you were one of the unfortunate few…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So many photos, so little time. It is very nearly Sunday at this point.  I have 150 images of beauty beyond measure. Unfortunately, I will not please your eye with them at this time. They will all be posted at some future date. Mostly, I am sorry not to show the creative spirit with which each of our hardworking vendors displayed their wares. Important photos – those ones of the artisans!  The grounds of the farm were completely transformed.  I’m wishing that the feeling of the place will be seen when you view the shots of each individual booth {later post}. If my computer ran faster… errrr, if I didn’t need to sleep tonight, you would be floored by the offerings available to you! Best that you come meet these vendors for yourselves. My, they are a friendly lot! Come out on Sunday and see what I mean!

It Is With Great Pleasure….

We welcome you to Goat Hill Fair!!  Our gates are open! Saturday May 19th @ 10am, Sunday @ 11am…..

And I introduce you to our founder, Cyndi Garofalo ~

As written in Silicon Valley SCENE magazine :

Cyndi Garofalo doesn’t get jewelry or spa treatments for her birthday or Christmas. Instead, she’s likely to receive gift cards to The Home Depot, where she can buy power tools and other gadgets for “up”-purposing cast-off furniture and decorative items. “I can literally drive down the road and see a chair with a ‘Free’ sign on it from a mile away,” she says.

After Garofalo turns trash into treasure by way of paint, upholstery or other enhancement, it gets sold at venues such as the Center Street Antiques and Interiors co-op in Soquel, or the Alameda Point Antiques Faire.

“I love seeing something, an end product, come from nothing,” is the way she views her talent. “It gives me a great sense of pleasure; I feel like I’m living out my gift.”

The single mom of two never had formal design training, yet for years ran Garofalo’s Interiors and Antiques in Campbell. On the advice of her CPA, she closed the successful business just ahead of the recession, after which came a job as a designer at the Williams-Sonoma Home store at Stanford Shopping Center. When that shuttered last year, it finally allowed Garofalo to realize a dream.

She founded the biannual Goat Hill Fair, where select artists and craftspeople offer their wares on an idyllic 11-acre ranch in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Last year, the 42 vendors sold everything from repurposed jewelry and embellished handbags to French antiques and primitive art. The next gathering – with even more sellers – will be held May 19 and 20.

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Say HEY, GIRL! to Cyndi when you see her at the show…. she will surely smile { I was given inside scoop from her son – she’s a Ryan Gosling fan}… you’ll know her from her high energy and cowgirl boots… Hopefully those boots won’t be sportin’ a gallon of white paint, as they did at the start of September’s event……

 

Or, you may recognize her from the goat hanging around her neck! You heard right….. yep, there’s a new kid in town! A goat with  rhinestone jewels..    Courtesy of Lili Brandt {Jewel Junkie}  …  Looking good – new kid!

There’s a crew of other friendly sorts waiting to say hello too ~

 

and last, but not least ~

All of us at Goat Hill Farm say ……….. ENJOY YOURSELVES!!

Twenty Four Hours

Every darn one of the Goat Hill vendors must have gotten their Boy and/or Girl Scout badges. Those tents are flying up at lightning speed! The place is going from farmhouse, orchard and patio to SPLENDORIFIC  chic-yet-country marketplace in a matter of hours.

 

 

There are still slots of green views between booths

 

 

see the barn & hillside past the chandy??  ^

 

 

The days have been brilliantly blue…

Should stay this way, just for you…

Setting up shop, as baby goats bleat…

Only twenty-four hours, ’til we meet…

~ a little ditty composed by moi ~

 

{Born just yesterday ^}

 

A MYRIAD OF SPLENDORS IN STORE FOR YOU!!!  Have we enticed you yet??? Not much longer now….

 

What’s Yellow and Screams??

The answer to the question posed as the title to this post:  What’s Yellow and Screams?   Why, it’s a school bus filled with

Goat Hill guests screaming – “are we there yet ?”  and maybe even screaming {singing at the top of their lungs} :

The wheels of the bus, go round and round – round and round….         HA! Can you catch the visual on that?

Our guests will be parking off-site, away from the farm – and you will be bused along with your fellow passion-in-vintage-cohorts to the gates of the farmhouse.  The trip is a very short one. Enjoy the ride! Have some fun with it! Sing if you’d like.

Each busload will have a greeter/tour guide/GOATESS on-board to enlighten you of the days events and information. Be kind to your guide… they are somewhat versed in the Goat Hill goings-on, but their training was limited! 

You may hear narrative on the history of Goat Hill while on your journey! Just in case y’all get carried away with yer singin’…. and thus be unable to hear the Goatess speak I thought I might give you a briefing now. Because this really is an interesting place!

GOAT HILL is OWNED BY DAN AND BECKY YODER:

THE PROPERTY WAS HOMESTEADED IN THE 1880s BY THE SEARS FAMILY(NOT THE DEPT. STORE FAMILY) WHO BUILT THEIR FIRST HOUSE HERE AND PLANTED ORCHARDS OF PRUNES, CHERRIES AND PEARS. THE ORIGINAL HOUSE IS STILL STANDING AND LIVED IN BY THE YODER’S DAUGHTER, JILL, WHO RUNS THE GOAT CLEARING BUSINESS. ALSO STILL ON THE PROPERTY IS THE OLD LOADING DOCK USED BY THE SEARS TO LOAD UP THEIR FRUIT CRATES IN A HORSE DRAWN WAGON TO TAKE TO MARKET IN TOWN.

THE SEARS HAD ONE DAUGHTER, PEARL WHO WAS BORN ON THE PROPERTY, MARRIED, RAISED A SON AND LIVED THERE UNTIL HER  DEATH.

THE PRESENT VICTORIAN HOUSE WAS BUILT BY THE SEARS IN 1906 AND THEY MOVED IN TO THEIR BEAUTIFUL HOME ON APRIL 17, 1906. THEY AWOKE EARLY THE NEXT MORNING TO THE GREAT SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE SHAKING THEIR NEW HOME OFF IT’S FOUNDATION, THE HOUSE WAS HITCHED TO A TEAM OF HORSES AND PULLED BACK UP TO IT’S FOUNDATION, WHERE IT STAYED UNTIL THE 1989 EARTHQUAKE. AT THAT TIME THE HOUSE WAS PARTIALLY REPAIRED AND THEN SOLD TO A FAMILY WHO DID A MAJOR REMODEL, WHICH INCLUDED AN EXACT REPLICA OF THE ORIGINAL BARN.

THE FAMILY RENTED GOATS EACH YEAR TO KEEP THE MEADOW CLEAR AND EVENTUALLY DECIDED IT WAS EASIER TO BUY A SMALL HERD.

THE YODERS PURCHASED THE PROPERTY FROM THIS FAMILY . THE SELLERS ASKED IF THEY WOULD CONSIDER TAKING THE GOATS WITH THE HOUSE. AFTER THINKING ABOUT IT FOR AWHILE, THE YODERS DECIDED THEY LOVED THAT IDEA, BUT THE SELLERS HAD DECIDED THEY WANTED TO SELL THEM INSTEAD. SO A TRADE WAS MADE- THE GOATS FOR A VERY MODERN SILK CHANDELIERS IN THE ENTRY AND THE DINING ROOM THAT THE SELLERS WANTED TO TAKE WITH THEM! EVERYONE WAS HAPPY!

THE HERD HAS GROWN FROM 19 TO 60 AND A VERY BUSY LAND-CLEARING BUSINESS WAS STARTED!

And now here we are today. Throwing one big HOW-DO-YOU-DO antique/vintage event at Yoder’s Goat Farm. Go out and enjoy it all. Take it in. Shop, visit, swap stories. Sit a spell too. Pull up a chair, grab a lunch with our QUE’ers and listen to some fabulous music. AND SING IF YOU FEEL THE MOOD STRIKE!!

Believe me, you’ll feel like singin’, cause THIS PLACE IS SWEET!!

Reasoning… Collecting, Gathering, Flea-ing

 

For something that I didn’t know I needed, or didn’t even want, and for something I’ll probably never use, I thought that it was a bargain!   ~ Trina of A Country Farmhouse

 

 

When I saw this piece, with its pretty “Duck Egg” blue paint, I fell head over heels for it. I begged the pool man and bribed him with cookies to go with me to pick it up….he huffed and puffed but he went and, the blank wall is finally filled with the perfect piece!!   ~Tara at Blondie ‘n’ SC

 

 

 

We just arrived home after a 33-hour whirl-wind Bay Area road trip that included 11 hours of loading a 16′ trailer, truck bed and truck cab with 61 years of collected items from a dear friend that “wants us to make cool stuff with it!”. We’re still pinching ourselves.   ~ The JunkGirls

 

 

Mirrors into the future of treasures to come…   ~ Trinidad of Atelier de Campagne

Victorious in the hunt! Many pleasurable moments, over many days of treasure-seeking were had by me in the last half-year. Goat Hill Fair was many months in planning and now, after the fact, I feel that I came out a winner! The game that I, we, as finders and collectors play can be quite exhilarating. Always on the look-out for that fabulous, over the top piece. The one thing that will make the perfect statement in someones treasure trove.   ~ Shari from Abundant Picnic blog

For those of you, like us at Goat Hill, that love the thrill of a morning hunting through a yard sale, browsing aisles of flea markets, and standing waiting for a gate to open at an annual sale….

You know that sensation? Don’t you?… the excitement you can taste – a pitter-patting heart…

Well, for those in kind – we need no other REASON to gather, than WE LOVE IT!!

From First Intro to Last…

How could we NOT introduce you to every single AMAZING vendor in our crew?  Well, one runs short on time, has trouble connecting – those artisans are very busy bees! And, we also knew that you can visit a short version of the blog on this website – located under: Vendor List & Info. BEST OF ALL, though, is to come see them personally on the Hill!

We started with Greenhouse Supply {Donna Boss}… see her recent email reminder below ->

                      

                  

                       

We are fitting in one more post – showcasing a new-to-us creator. We just may have time for other type posts before the show begins {note: see yesterdays Ryan Gosling fun-fest}… Stay tuned!

 This is Jenny Karp. She created Glitter Farm.

I’ve not met Jenny. Looks like we may have us another cowgirl! YEE HAW! Here is some of what she has to offer ~

Loads of pretty color along with some rust – good combo, don’t ya think??

Looks like Jenny can sew-up some unique aprons ^

Can’t wait for you to meet her, or myself either! I’ll scoot right over in my cow-girl boots and meet her acquaintance…. wonder if she’ll be wearing her boots too?