Cassie Zadow offers handmade products from her herd of goats. Courtesy Photo
CORNWALL – Goat snuggles are something most people would love, thankfully Cassie Zadow the owner of Caprassion Acres offers this and much more.
The name Caprassion comes from the word Caprine (meaning goat) and Passion, she had a passion for goats as they weren’t too loud and in her words “They’re very cute”.
Cassie worked in the veterinary field on large animals and that’s where it all started, a goat had come in for a cesarean section (c-section). Cassie had helped deliver the small goat, and from there Cassie realized that she wanted to have goats. Cassie bought her first goats May 6, 2016, and a few months later she decided to try breeding them. Once she bred them Cassie realized she was making more than enough goat milk for one person, so she began making soap out of the milk.
Once she began her business on Oct. 7, 2018, she started showing up to farmers markets and craft shows with her products after being persuaded by friends and family to sell these items, customers would ask her to bring the baby goats to these markets and shows. Sadly it became too much with having to set up the pens constantly so she moved it to her farm in Pembroke, where she stopped working as a veterinary technician and focused on her business full time.
While in Pembroke she would slowly begin making more and more items such as bath bombs (regular and surprise), lotions, shampoo and conditioner bars, body soap, dish soap, and laundry soap. Cassie needed to expand her farm so she could gain more product so she moved into a bigger farm in Cornwall in July of 2025.
Her farm will open to the public around November of 2025. All the products Cassie creates are handmade using the milk from her own herd of goats, every day she goes out to milk the goats in order to make them into bath & body products. After Cassie had started her business she began offering goat snuggles on her property, people are able to contact her and book appointments for this. Cassie also brings her goats to retirement homes to bring joy to the elderly.
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