After exhaustive research and visiting goat farms first-hand, Jim and Shelli fell in love with the LaMancha. The first decision faced was deciding on a breed of goat given that there are over seventy different breeds in existence today. This led to the fundamental question so often asked by friends and family, why a goat farm? DeLuna Acres started with the vision of raising and training pack goats as an alternative to llama packing. Shelli’s passion for nature made it an easy decision moving to the Boise area, a true outdoor paradise. Many of the trips involved carrying heavy packs but as her parents began to age, carrying heavy packs and still wanting to get into the remote back country was a challenge, thus the transition to llama packing! Llamas are wonderful pack animals, but tend to be very shy and indifferent toward people, are also quite large and cannot easily be coaxed up certain terrains. Shelli grew up in the great outdoors where she spent every summer backpacking throughout the Sierras with her parents. In 2015, Jim retired from hi-tech and relocated to the Boise area with Shelli where he went full-circle back to his childhood, living on a farm!
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This led Jim to the world of hi-tech where he spent thirty-eight years of his life as a software engineer and subsequently climbing the corporate ranks into executive management where he was responsible for several large, world-wide product groups at Microsoft and Autodesk.
Being the first in his family to go to college, Jim studied Mathematics and later went back to earn his Master’s in Computer Science. Unfortunately, as happens to many farms, the economics of running a dairy were not profitable and the farm was sold to make room for urban sprawl. Jim grew up on a large dairy farm outside of Philadelphia in the 1960s where his roots were established in the dairy business. Jim, Shelli and their children, Casey and Alexis have always had a strong devotion towards animals and the great outdoors, which helped influence the decision to start the farm. Founded in 2016 by Jim and Shelli Kramer, DeLuna Acres is a family owned and operated goat dairy located in Eagle, ID.
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