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Goats the New Chickens
Oregon’s Willamette Week predicts goats will replace chickens as the must-have backyard companion of 2010. Goats have become so “omnipresent” around Portland that “it’s time torecognize them as the pet poised to break out as most likely to show up in your neighbor’s yard next year,” Willamette Week wrote in its 2010 predictions story. Portlanders can... »
More Urban Farming
OAKLAND, Calif. — One of the last places you’d expect to find a farm is in Oakland, but ABC recently ran a story about Novella Carpenter, an Oakland woman we’ve featured before. The video, with accompanying text, offers a look at how to integrate a garden and small livestock into an urban lifestyle complete with goats. Nigerian Dwarf... »
Potty Training a Pygmy
When you think house pet, for most people, pygmy goat normally isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. However, if it is the first thing that comes to your mind, you’ll be happy to know that eHow.com offers instructions on how to teach your house goat not to piddle in said house. Having provided... »
Give the gift of a goat for the holidays
While we at ATG don’t encourage the gifting of animals for the holiday season, the avant guardian suggests foregoing the usual puppies in favor of goats. The small stature and undeniable cuteness of Nigerian Dwarf goats, believes “chicken flava”, make them an ideal gift for your favorite animal lover. Sadly, the author can’t have any... »
Novella Carpenter’s Neighborhood
Many of you have read Novella Carpenter’s Farm City, where she talks about urban farming on a city lot in Oakland, Calif. In this video, Carpenter tells listeners more about her neighborhood, including how goats scare the residents more than the sound of a drive-by shooting. Eds. Note: To learn more about Carpenter, her... »
Silicon Valley Homestead?
A California woman is hoping residents of one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the nation want to save a two-acre pasture with 17 goats and myriad other farm animals. Lisa Green, a massage therapist from Redwood City, and her 13-year-old son, Evan, tend the animal-farm-of-sorts at the corner of Hacienda Drive and Woodside Road in... »
Farm City
Novella Carpenter of Oakland, Calif., is on a quest to bring city dwellers to urban farming. This story from Time Magazine shows Novella’s six Nigerian dwarf goats hanging out on her porch steps and photos of her second-floor apartment outfitted for milking goats. Carpenter, the author of “Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer,”... »
Is a Pygmy Goat in Your Future?
Elizabeth at Save a Pet Blog gives us the ins and outs of raising pygmy goats, those adorable, tiny, fuzzy, rambunctious escape artists. Her post also gives us this quote from Scottish writer David Mackenzie in his 1954 book Farmer in the Western Isles: “All goats are mischievous thieves, gate-crashers, and trespassers. Also they possess... »
Free Gigi
This could have been just a quirky little story about a miniature pet goat named Gigi being kicked out of an neighborhood festival in Milwaukee, Wis. Instead, writer Michael McElwrath pens a scathing indictment of local officials showing them as they were that night — hypocritical and ridiculous. Through it all, Gigi maintains her... »
Seattle’s Goat Justice League
Seattle resident Jennie Grant and her Goat Justice League have convinced the city to allow goats as pets in backyards. Grant and her son, Spencer, formed the lobbying group two years ago so they could get milk from their own animals. “I thought maybe I could make an argument that they were pets and not farm... »
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Happy Goat Caramels
Happy Goat Caramels are sweet, savory and made from the milk of California goats grazed on pesticide-free grass.
