Meet the Team!
Holy Goat! Owner and Founder, Nix Moretta.
Giddy Goat! Ian, aka chief tea brewer, and marketing guru!
Giddy Goat! Ian, aka chief tea brewer, and marketing guru!
Nix used to have a riding school and petting farm in England, where the adventure of goats' milk soap began.
After selling up a few years ago, she moved to the magical, remote, and rustic Isle of Arran off the Scottish West Coast, and has never looked back.
Nix also works as an English and Creative Writing lecturer in term-time; runs the B
Nix used to have a riding school and petting farm in England, where the adventure of goats' milk soap began.
After selling up a few years ago, she moved to the magical, remote, and rustic Isle of Arran off the Scottish West Coast, and has never looked back.
Nix also works as an English and Creative Writing lecturer in term-time; runs the B&B in the summer months, and is a published poet, and children's author.
At her old farm in England twenty-odd years ago, she started making goats' milk soap with left-over milk from her small herd of Guernsey Goats - the seed was sown.
Plans were afoot to leave the rat-race behind, and live a more sustainable, mindful, and eco-friendly existence - The Isle of Arran Soap Company
was born!
Giddy Goat! Ian, aka chief tea brewer, and marketing guru!
Giddy Goat! Ian, aka chief tea brewer, and marketing guru!
Giddy Goat! Ian, aka chief tea brewer, and marketing guru!
Ian has spent most of his life within engineering, ISP management, and creating CCTV for wildlife observations.
Here on Arran, we are blessed with a plethora of rare birds, such as the elusive Hen Harrier.
Thankfully, to protect this endangered species, Ian has been actively engaged for many years with their preservation.
Now semi-retired,
Ian has spent most of his life within engineering, ISP management, and creating CCTV for wildlife observations.
Here on Arran, we are blessed with a plethora of rare birds, such as the elusive Hen Harrier.
Thankfully, to protect this endangered species, Ian has been actively engaged for many years with their preservation.
Now semi-retired, he is well-placed to help the company move forward with his business acumen, and excellent tea-brewing capabilities - not-to-mention, mucking out our ladies to
keep them happy!
Groovy Goat! Poppy Phillips, Chief Goat Herder
Groovy Goat! Poppy Phillips, Chief Goat Herder
Groovy Goat! Poppy Phillips, Chief Goat Herder
Poppy is Nix's daughter, and our chief goat whisperer!
She has been around animals all her life, and is a self-confessed dressage diva, more akin in the show ring with her Irish Sports Horse, Ruby.
However, she is an absolute grafter, and has worked really hard to be recently awarded an Arkwright Scholarship with the McLaren F1 team - so we
Poppy is Nix's daughter, and our chief goat whisperer!
She has been around animals all her life, and is a self-confessed dressage diva, more akin in the show ring with her Irish Sports Horse, Ruby.
However, she is an absolute grafter, and has worked really hard to be recently awarded an Arkwright Scholarship with the McLaren F1 team - so we now have to bow whenever she enters the room!
We jest, we love having Poppy around, and the animals adore her too.
She is off to university next year, and we will miss her dearly, which makes time together as a family on the farm ever more magical.
Good luck Poppy!
Gotcha Goat! Miss Fleck, sheepdog in training!
Groovy Goat! Poppy Phillips, Chief Goat Herder
Groovy Goat! Poppy Phillips, Chief Goat Herder
Miss Fleck, our beloved working dog in training has her eye for a wayward goat.
Eager and keen to work, she constantly strives to please. She was bred locally by our farmer friend, and was briefly owned by an elderly gentleman who sadly passed away, leaving
Fleck homeless.
However, I knew Fleck, her owner, and the farmer, and decided to a
Miss Fleck, our beloved working dog in training has her eye for a wayward goat.
Eager and keen to work, she constantly strives to please. She was bred locally by our farmer friend, and was briefly owned by an elderly gentleman who sadly passed away, leaving
Fleck homeless.
However, I knew Fleck, her owner, and the farmer, and decided to adopt her in agreement with her old owner's family, the farmer, Richard, and our local vet.
She is my shadow, and I love her dearly.
Yet, she has work to do on the farm, and the training is afoot!