About us.
Hello! We are the Waters family- Scarlet, Chance, & Truett, owners of Summer Sage Ranch. We are natives to central Arkansas, and have settled in Romance.
I (Scarlet) love to photograph the the animals, garden, food that I cook, and whatever else catches my eye with my Nikon camera. The majority of the photos you will find on this site have been captured by me.
Our farm.
We purchased our farm in October of 2019. It was only a bare piece of land with two small sheds, a makeshift grape vineyard, and no electricity or water. Since then, we've built a home, barns/coops/shelters, fences (and more fences). We still have more to do yet, but I know we'll get it done! Our goats were able to move to the new farm in October of 2020, and we've been working on building the herd ever since.
Our program.
The end goal is to be an ADGA Plus Member who participates in all available performance programs. To date, we’ve partook in shows as we are able. We have signed up for a linear appraisal session a few times, but have not gotten a stop. We hope to enroll in DHIR this year (2026) and begin our milk testing journey.
Our story.
I (Scarlet) have always been an "Ellie Mae," and I can't remember a time in my life when I didn't have an animal to care for. As a child, it was puppies and kittens, but that quickly developed into calves and ponies by the time I was five. My parents purchased my first goat for me when I was around 11 or 12; he was a boer buckling that I named Forrest. We kept him and a handful of does for a few years, but during that time my priorities lied with my show calves and horses so the decision was made to sell the goats. It wasn't until 2017 that I got my first goat as an adult; my husband named her Roxy and she was an unregistered heinz 57 goat. We purchased our first registered Nigerian Dwarf in 2020 when I decided that if we were going to be goat owners, they might as well be registered. That quickly turned into a soap-making hobby and a love for fresh milk.
My philosohpy in life is to never stop learning, and there is so much to study when it comes to goats, and farming in general. My goal is to always strive to expand my knowledge so that I can attempt to make the most well-informed decisions for my animals and farm.
