Mother's Day Sale

I think it’s time to share some pretty amazing news… but let’s get the sale code out of the way first!

It’s time for our Mother’s Day Sale!! Use code MOM2024 to take 25% off our entire website through Sunday May 12, 2024. Don’t forget the “Best Mom Soap”.

If you’d like to pick up at our farm in in Independence, use code LOCALPICKUP to bypass the shipping. I will send instructions for pickup.

Rapha Farms (raphafarmsmn.com)

For those of you who are new here, I’m Karen, the owner of Rapha Farms. My goat story starts with my youngest daughter wanting to be a farmer. She went through brain cancer when she was 8, she had her struggles from chemo, radiation and that tumor, so I tried to do what I could to expand on her interests as I homeschooled her. We got our first goats living in Minnetonka on a half-acre lot. We loved it, so we decided to move to the country in 2018.

We started making soap that summer, and I realized that my daughter could have a career that could support her all of her life. So I started the business thinking that she’d take it over. She thrived, she was fantastic at selling at markets. She was great at making products. She eventually quit because her now husband didn’t want her to continue with the business, and my second and final child became estranged from me.

There’s nothing harder for an empath to loose her children, but I’m not alone. Over 25% of adult children are now estranged from us. If you are in this position, you are not alone either (reach out for support info if you’d like). I couldn’t see myself recovering, but God. God is good all the time. He redeems and heals.

When I was much younger, before even getting married, I had a dream that I would adopt children. I wanted to adopt teens that had no other options. I could never fulfill this dream because I didn’t have a partner who shared my desire. (I didn’t even bring it up, my ex didn’t want to work so there was no way it could have happened).

After praying for 5 years that God would connect me with a young woman who needed me as much as I needed her, I finally had an answer to prayer, in a very big way. The first two “adopted daughters” came into our lives around the time we were buying our new farm in Independence. I felt healed enough to start this new adventure. Then on Christmas Eve, someone from my church mentioned a young woman who had lost her Mom a couple of years earlier. That connection turned into adding her sister, who of course had also lost her Mom.

So we now have 4 “adopted” daughters who have helped to fill the hole in my heart. I am super thankful for them all. They are super thankful for us. In a matter of 3 months, we’ve grown into something more than I ever could have imagined! If I had not become estranged from my biological daughters, this would hever have happened. Sometimes we just need to wait and see what God is doing in our lives. All the time, God is good!

Enjoy time with your mothers. Time is precious, and I can speak from experience, that we don’t understand what we have until it’s too late.

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