The Brandts
Mtn Mist is a farm in northern Arkansas run by Louis and Rose Marie Brandt. Through the years, they have had more than abit of help from their children-Nathan (the oldest), Angela (the person responsible for this website), and their youngest daughter Nikki (who joined our family after Nathan and I went off to college). You can see Rose Marie and Lou at Silver Dollar City in the picture above with Nikki sneaking her face in the picture. We moved to the Ozarks in 1983 and to our current home in 1986. Rose Marie and her family raised dairy goats for close to thirty years and operated a dairy (affiliated with Jackson-Mitchell) for many of those years. After Angela left for college in 1996 the dairy closed permanently; however, we are still keeping a few Boer-cross goats for pasture management and supplemental income. We raised several commercial heifers and cows, we have always needed an extra hand to help out on the farm. For many years that help came in the form of our Australian shepherds. Rose Marie bought her first Aussie, Panda Bear, over forty years ago from the first litter she could find in Arkansas. Panda Bear and later Shep and Sadie were amazing work dogs. They were extremely intelligent, loyal, and had tremendous herding instinct. Eventually our four-footed friends grew old and passed away. We purchased other aussies to replace these first dogs and and found that not all aussies could really work livestock anymore. Therefore, we purchased two puppies from Pincie Creek around 2000 and have worked to maintain our own line of working aussies since then starting with those two.
During most of the time we were managing our dairy and increasing our farming skills at our current home, Rose Marie and Lou were serving as teachers for the local schools. During the summer of 2009, they made the hard decision to retire from teaching to open a small country store that they built from the ground up. The store opened in the beginning of May 2010 and has been a great and very time-consuming adventure.
If you have any questions about our farm, goats, dogs, or anything else please do not hesitate to call or email. We recommend you call the store phone if you need to talk dogs during the day. If there is a rush, we may to ask you to call back, but we love to talk if we can. You can also call or email Angela after 6:00 pm during the week or on the weekends. Angela lives in Story City, IA, but she stays in constant contact with the family and can almost always answer your questions. She also can handle those evil computers a little better than her parents. Of course, you are always welcome to stop by and visit in person if you happen to be in the area. We love good conversation with nice people.
During most of the time we were managing our dairy and increasing our farming skills at our current home, Rose Marie and Lou were serving as teachers for the local schools. During the summer of 2009, they made the hard decision to retire from teaching to open a small country store that they built from the ground up. The store opened in the beginning of May 2010 and has been a great and very time-consuming adventure.
If you have any questions about our farm, goats, dogs, or anything else please do not hesitate to call or email. We recommend you call the store phone if you need to talk dogs during the day. If there is a rush, we may to ask you to call back, but we love to talk if we can. You can also call or email Angela after 6:00 pm during the week or on the weekends. Angela lives in Story City, IA, but she stays in constant contact with the family and can almost always answer your questions. She also can handle those evil computers a little better than her parents. Of course, you are always welcome to stop by and visit in person if you happen to be in the area. We love good conversation with nice people.
