b'Communication. Connection. Love.New owner of Nightingale Farms brings fresh excitement to businessBy Trina KleistT he new owner of Nightingale Farms, in Peardale, has a big wooden picnic table under a tree that offers delicious shade in front of the house. Lateefah Thompson calls it her gathering table, and it evokes the spirit she and her family bring to the business of raising goats and turning their milk into rich, skin-soothing lotion and soap.Photo by Trina KleistI love helping people, says Thompson, 38. And she loves pouring her heart, soul and mind into her dream of blending family and farm, fueling business with passion, building As new owners, the Thompson family is putting heart and soul into Nightingale Farms in Peardale, producing goat milk lotions and soaps that quench thirsty skin. Parents Robert and Lateefah Thompson are excited about raising daughters Alana, 4, and Kaylee, 1, in a place Ask us how you canwhere they can connect with community.power your routerconnections and community, and working with her hands to ANYWHERE! create something wonderful that touches others. There are so COME SEE FOR YOURSELF! many people who love our products, she explains. People want Loaner Units Available. the soul in that product, the love that you put into it. Having this DON ADAMS product is another outlet for me to communicate with people and open my heart.ANTENNA SATELLITE SERVICES Thompson and her hydrologist husband, Robert Thompson, SERVING ALL MAKES & MODELS OF SATELLITES SINCE 1979 530-274-3709 37, took over the farm and business after founders Shannon DonAdamsGV.com155 Joerschke Drive, Grass Valley Friedberg and Steve Nightingale (featured in the 2018-19 edition of Nevada County Business Focus), retired to Idaho in late 2019. The Thompsons were living in Sacramento and enjoying wistful excursions into the local countryside. Lateefah Thompson had already gutted and remodeled their house, built 15 garden beds in the yard, chopped hubbys couch in half as part of a furniture make-over, and launched crafts for her two young daughters. But she was itching for a project that would give her creative urges fuller expression. We stumbled on this home and property and just fell in love GIFTSJEWELRYNATURAL FIBER CLOTHING with it. My husband said, This is going to be amazing for you. Handmade goods & craftsYou need to do this, Lateefah Thompson recalls. In January of people from around the world. 2020, they moved up from Sacramento. Theres room for him and me and the girls to just grow.Come In & Browse for 10 minutes For now, Thompson is making her lotions and soaps with locallyYoull Stay for an Hour! produced milk while she builds up her new herd. They got their 300 Broad St., Downtown Nevada City 265-9666 first three goats in early July and expect their first kids (the four-legged variety) in spring 2021.Its part of her ground-up approach: I dont want to just milk my goats. I want to bond with my goats, she says with infectious energy. Meanwhile, she is working to improve her products, increase online outreach, meet farmers, envision development and talk to folks at retail outlets: Look for FOR YOUR GLOBAL RHYTHM NEEDS Nightingale Farms products to return to BriarPatch Community Walk In and Dance Out Food Co-op in Grass Valley; more outlets are on the website. Shes also listening to long-time customers, some of whom plead for the CDSTAPESTRIEST-SHIRTSBEADS return of the brands milk-and-honey soap.INCENSEPOSTERS DANCE ACCESSORIES For Thompson, these steps all build her connection to the WINDCHIMES OPEN DAILY community in which she and her husband plan to raise her daughters. She adds, I am blessed, truly.107 N. Pine St., Downtown Nevada City 478-9114 Nightingale Farms Check the website to vote for your favorite scents and products. NightingaleFarms.net(530) 273-4628 (GOAT)email: nightingalefarms@yahoo.comBusiness 2020 29'