From USAToday
SEATTLE – Snowflake the goat has cornered me, nuzzling my hand as she nibbles on my jacket's zipper.
SEATTLE – Snowflake the goat has cornered me, nuzzling my hand as she nibbles on my jacket's zipper.
Elaine Thompson, AP
Jennie Grant scratches the neck of Eloise in the backyard of her home in Seattle.
"They're very affectionate," says urban goat pioneer Jennie Grant, who owns the 99-pound, white miniature LaMancha.
Distracted by Snowflake, I hardly notice a smaller black goat closing in on me until she takes a bite out of my notebook. Behind the roughhewn milking platform, the view stretches out past pavement, streetlights and cars. This is the city, and these are city goats.
Urban goat farming is part of a nationwide movement to eat food produced locally — sometimes as locally as our backyards. Successful efforts to legalize chickens in cities such as Chicago and New York paved the way, with ducks and bees gaining ground in many places too.
But goats? It's been two hooves forward, one hoof back as the idea has spread to more cities. For every pro-goat Portland, Ore., or Oakland, Calif., there's been a Kansas City, Mo., or Minneapolis shutting the barn door on backyard ruminants.
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