By Ryan Barnes, Aldinga, SA.

Cooperative goat keeping has enabled a handful of people to experience suburban goat care and provide two ex-commercial goats with an enjoyable life.

A few years ago my partner Phoebe and I rode our bikes across the South Island of New Zealand, WWOOFing as we went. It was here that we fell in love with dairy goats and first began to dream of having a herd of our own. A few years later we found ourselves settling down in the outer suburbs of southern Adelaide, not ready to commit to a full herd of our own just yet, but still feeling the itch to have some caprine cuties in our lives.

One of the many stories in Issue 262 Dec/Jan 2021