Courtesy of Danielle Langloism, Wikipedia CCLDairy Goat Farming as Art
MAXFIELD, Maine — Scott Belanger worked as a nurse practitioner for 18 years before deciding to leave medicine for goats.
Belanger and his partner, Jennifer Maeverde, got their state dairy license in 2006 to produce artisan cheese from the more than 30 Nubians they keep on their 100 acres of secluded land in rural Maine.
Their homestead — Old Oak Farm — has what Belanger and Maeverde call a “cheese lab” where they create goat mozzarella, goat milk yogurt and other products, which they sell at the Orono Farmer’s Market.
“I kind of like the artsiness of it,” Belanger told Mobile Maine News.
Belanger and Maeverde also teach others about organic food, cheese biology and goat health by opening their farm to visitors who want to experience a working goat farm.
