Martinville, Barras spends 16-hour days milking goats and creating unique varieties of fresh cheese, which are branded by her signature flair with fresh flowers, sweet fruit, savory spices and homegrown herbs. From tart ch vre cheese to crumbling feta, goat cheese can be a welcome addition to light salads, rich appetizers and powerful entrees. Barras' cheeses are decorated in an artistic design using herbs she grows herself, fruits she buys from farmer's markets where she sells her cheese...

They also want to add sheep and goats to the toolbox of control measures. Resource managers hope to triple the annual acreage they treat for invasive plants like spotted knapweed and Dalmatian toadflax. Adding sheep and goats to the toolbox would allow the Forest Service to team with Missoula's city and county animal control efforts for cross-border grazing. Second is to reduce existing populations of weeds such as white top, diffuse knapweed, blue weed, orange hawkweed, yellow hawkweed...

Other products ranged from honey, teas and baked goods to wool, yarn, fleece, soap candles and plants. opening of a farm market sponsored by Burlington County in its ongoing efforts to promote local agriculture and farmland preservation. Where to buy food fresh from the farm Here is a list of some of the farmers markets that pepper the tri-county area. of Maple Shade was making soup stock from corn husks and also adding whole vanilla bean to cut, sweet corn sauteed in a wok. Customers got...

A tour of the picturesque farm yields a designated retirement home for old milk-goats no longer able to produce, as well as a bachelor pad that houses the male goats born on the farm. Determined to keep from the slaughterhouse the young males they bottle fed by hand as babies, owners Lorraine Lambiase and Sheila Flanagan allow the goats to roam the land until they can find a good home as a pet or 4H project. To outsiders, it probably seemed unlikely that a business that spoils its goats so...

Commercial goat meat production will follow the pattern of the goat industry, Barnes said, by taking advantage of the hybrid vigor offered by crossbreeding. Fueled by growing demand and the accompanying good prices, goat isn t the four-letter word it used to be out on the farm as landowners find a way to utilize marginal land and forage and add to their bottomline at the same time. The breed has no showring competitions, there s no definitive color pattern or horn shape the entire emphasis...

But a few modest federal programs have helped the industry sustain itself, even increase a bit in Wyoming, and those who produce lamb and wool have enjoyed stable market prices in recent years. An American Sheep Industry representative recently told Congress that cost-share programs could be directed to prescriptive grazing contracts that would provide both a feed source for sheep and a revenue stream for producers. Department of Agriculture program during 2002-2004 paid sheep producers to...