When most people think of goats, they think of dairy goats supplying fresh milk, cheese, and soap. But a growing number of homesteaders are raising goats for a different reason: meat. Goat meat ...

COLCHESTER, Vt. — A bunch of kids in a minivan are solving twin challenges in northern Vermont: refugees struggling to find the food of their homelands and farmers looking to offload unwanted ...

The demand for chevon is outstripping supply in the United States, so a Laurel woman wants to be part of a new market for meat. Stacy Anderson has started a farm flock of Boer goats that she intends ...

A baby boom is underway at Salt Lake City’s East African Refugee Goat Project. About 100 kids have been born since mid-March on the scenic ranch 8 miles west of Salt Lake City International Airport.

Bonnie, a 3-year-old goat who lives with Olivia Gadwah and Ryan Snow in Millbury, will nibble on just about anything: a key fob, a visitor's glove and, more nutritiously, brush that formerly filled ...

LAKELAND | Goat ranching offers an opportunity for a small farmer to make some doe, but don't expect to rake in the bucks. No kidding! Now that we've dispensed with the mandatory goat puns, the fact ...

On the Nebraska prairie, Josh and Karly Black’s story unfolds like a modern-day frontier saga. But it is not one of cattle or corn, staple commodities for the Midwestern state. The Blacks have carved ...

ABILENE — Although goat meat isn't always available at meat counters in Kansas groceries, the market for the meat is rapidly growing in the Midwest. Jamie Garten, of Garten Boer Goats in Abilene, said ...

A white and a dappled Boer goat stand in their pen at the D and J Goat Farms auction at the Johnston County Livestock Arena. The auction drew goats from across North Carolina and buyers from across ...