Every year at tax time, Joy and I do an additional calculation on our household energy usage. With the rising price of gas, we felt it was time to become more sustainable at home, and get more serious about urban farming.
So we got a goat. Her name is Lucretia. She is a Nubian goat, a breed that has the best milk, according to the American Dairy Goat Association.
Even though people break municipal chicken laws all the time in our L.A. neighborhood of El Sereno, we wanted to be legal, so we had to learn how to apply for a city permit. In doing our research, we learned about the Goat Justice League in Seattle, where they pioneered the modern urban goat advocacy movement.
Since Joy was busy churning butter most days, I took on the job of learning how to milk Lucretia. Believe it or not, there was an iPAD app for that, which was very helpful until Lucretia chewed my iPAD, and I began to reconsider this lifestyle choice.
On behalf of Joy’s Organic Kitchen, I’d like to wish you a very happy April 1st.
Let go of my leg!
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ReplyDeleteAnd you will get valuable fertilizer for your okra crop too.
Unfortunately Lucretia finds young okra shoots second only to ipads in deliciousness, so it is unlikely I will harvest any okra pods.
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