MICHELLE FRUMIN | EL CORTIJO RANCH

In the former home of feminist artist Judy Chicago and and playwright Bernard Pomerance, Michelle Frumin, a lawyer by trade, filters raw milk in her kitchen, the center and heart of her home. Her miniature Nubian goats produce more milk than she and her husband could possibly drink. And so she alchemizes milk into soaps and lotions and experiments with scents. 

When she pauses in her efforts, she looks out across four mountain ranges. Or she climbs to the top of the hogback ridge with its ancient petroglyphs and 360-degree view of the entire Galisteo Basin. New Mexico – and Galisteo in particular – is her daily inspiration. And her twenty goats and seventy-five chickens give her the confidence to expand, experiment, and to try new things. 

The goal for each day, Frumin says, “is to show my animals as much love as possible and not get injured in the process.”