A Different Kind of Farm

Goat glamour shots, brought to you by collard greens, apples, and some very happy goats. 🐐📸🍎🥬 Gilbert, Blaze, and Bianca were more than happy to show off their latest snack delivery! Huge thanks to our MVPs, Natalie and Bill, for being the best food waste heroes and delivery drivers around! Thanks to them, perfectly good food stays out of the landfill and goes straight into some very appreciative bellies. ❤️

Good help is hard to find. Especially when your coworkers eat the supplies, stand in your way, and occasionally poop on the job. 🐐 We're looking for a few more humans to join the City Goat Farm volunteer team! Did you know City Goat Farm is 100% volunteer-run? We love what we do, but keeping the farm going takes a lot of work. And with animals depending on us every day, reliable volunteers make all the difference. Interested in volunteering? Here's what we're looking for: – Age 15 or older – Able to commit to a regular schedule of at least two shifts per month – Comfortable working independently around animals – Willing and able to do physical work, including cleaning up hay and poop, providing food and water, and general animal care – A genuine love of animals (including the messy parts!) No farm experience necessary. We provide training! But we do need people who can make a consistent commitment and aren't afraid to roll up their sleeves. 📱 More of a social media person? We're also looking for someone to help share the daily adventures, adorable faces, and behind-the-scenes chaos at the farm! We're looking for someone who can create and publish at least one post per week and has experience with or an interest in social media best practices. Volunteering at City Goat Farm is rewarding, sometimes messy, and rarely boring. Our four-legged supervisors make sure of that. ❤️ Interested and able to make the commitment? Email us at [email protected]. We'd love to hear from you. #volunteersneeded #animalwelfare #farmsanctuary

The Kaporos Seven (Blue, Giselle, Olivia, Penny, Ruth, Ursula, and Yael) are settling in well. It's been a long time since we've had young hens (we usually receive rescues that have stopped laying or are later in life), so it's been fun to watch them explore and learn. We're still deciding which flock to merge them with (main coop, turkeys, or Alfie) based on their needs, but they've been spending time with Alfie and Pomme and have been getting along well. Look forward to more updates and hopefully seeing them outside soon! #chickenrescue #kaporos #farmsanctuary

Thank you to everyone who joined us last weekend for our Halloween Open House! 🎃🐐👻 It was wonderful to see familiar faces, meet new friends, and share a little of what makes City Goat Farm so special. Every opportunity to connect with our rescued residents is also a chance to show just how much these animals deserve kindness, compassion, and a life of their own. ❤️ We're grateful to everyone who spent part of their weekend with us. Here's a little look at the day courtesy of @gipsova!

We’re hard at work getting ready for our Goats & Ghosts Open House this Friday! 🐐👻 We’re so excited to have @happysproutsgoodies joining us for the evening! Come visit the goats, enjoy some fall fun, and get into the spooky spirit with us.

We had to say goodbye to Lady today. Lady and Gent came to us a few years ago from a local family who was losing their flock to predation and could no longer care for them. Lady had been managing a long-term suspected pelvic injury, with a lot of ups and downs. Today, we knew it was time to let her go peacefully and without pain. We’ve been worried about what losing Lady will mean for Gent, her devoted mate. Thankfully, he and Lucky have grown closer, though we know they’ll both feel her loss. We had Gent and Lucky with Lady when we said goodbye so they could mourn her in their own way. Our ducks are deeply bonded to their family and mates, and none of them are particularly comfortable with people. So watching Gent choose to approach Lady and stay with her in her final moments was incredibly moving. We’re heartbroken, but we know we made the right decision for Lady. She was loved, cared for, and able to leave peacefully. If you’d like to honor Lady, a donation to City Goat Farm would mean a lot and will help us continue caring for Gent, Lucky, and all of our residents. Rest peacefully, Lady. We’ll miss you.