Meet the three founders of Fat Toad Caramel: Judith Irving, Steve Reid and Irving’s daughter Calley Hastings. This woman-founded company, located in Vermont, was started in 2007 and has perfected the art of goat’s milk caramel making. Starting out as an experiment in homesteading and hand milking a beautiful French Alpine doe named Jupiter in their garage, Fat Toad Farm began its production sourcing all the milk from their own herd of dairy goats.
Sixteen years, a new location, and seventy-five (or more!) dairy goats later—Fat Toad Farm continues to make slow processed, handmade caramel in the same traditional way. Their successful family business has continued to have the same goal throughout those years: to produce the highest quality, traditional goat’s milk caramel sauces, using the freshest goat’s milk available.
