Character Building

This courtesy of The Female Farmer Project:  From our friend Blair of Madstone Farm... "The tender absurdity of farmy mama [and grand-mama] multitasking. Can't say it is easy but I imagine it builds character on all our parts --bovine included."

To motherhood -- in its many farmy forms.

What the Happiest [Human and Goat] Kids Know

We at Capering Goat Dairy (coincidentally owned by a Hollander?) just discovered (thanks to a New York Times Travel feature) the Netherlands are full of farms called kinderboerderij, or children's farms, where children can pet, play, and feed the animals: “It’s very healthy to bring your children into contact with animals in farms; then you have stronger and healthier [human] kids...Children have a natural bond with animals anyway, so it’s good that they’re being given a possibility to explore that.”
Naturally, we agree.
And when it comes to the goats, Corine Riteco, who with her husband founded a goat farm in the late 1980's to demonstrate the benefits of organic farming to Amsterdam's urban population, says "We liked the goats because they’re such pleasant animals, and they like the attention of people who come in, and of course the baby goats are very cute.”
Well we agree with that, too.

New York Times Travel, "The Dutch Way: Tulips,Windmills and Barnyard Animals," Nina Siegal, March 21, 2017.

Here's Bandana with her first baby, who will get to play with lots of goat and human kids.

Here's Bandana with her first baby, who will get to play with lots of goat and human kids.