In this hands-on educational experience we will first take a short tour of our dairy, learn all about goats and their job on the farm, and visit out adult goats up-close as they graze in out in the pasture. We’ll round out the experience with a lunchtime bottle feeding experience with our goat kids, and plenty of time to interact with them afterwards.
Cost: $55 for adults, $25 for kids (children 5 aand older) includes bottle feeding the baby goat kids. All ticketed children must be at least 5 years of age and accompanied by a ticketed adult; this is not a drop-off program.
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Instructors:
Katelyn Toppel, Herd Manager: Katelyn Toppel is a long-time foodie, animal lover, and Colorado native. Katelyn‘s background is in the organic food industry, where she worked on all levels of food production from service to sales to distribution for over a decade. Once she learned about the concepts of regenerative agriculture and holistic land management, she knew she wanted to get involved. Her mission became connecting people to unadulterated whole foods, straight from the source. In 2020 Katelyn left her desk job and landed at Growing Gardens (then Mountain Flower Goat Dairy) as a part-time milking hand, and was immediately hooked! Two years later, as Herd Manager at the Growing Gardens Goat Dairy, Katelyn hopes to educate the public on humane animal husbandry and land regeneration. She is passionate about teaching others about the ways that we can work successfully with animals and the land in reverent, healing, and always entertaining partnership! Outside of her work with Growing Gardens, Katelyn loves to play with food in the kitchen. You can reliably find her cooking, baking, fermenting, dehydrating, cheese-making, soap-making and otherwise preserving the harvest of the season! She loves getting outdoors, reading, and spending quality time with her partner and two sweet cats.
CANCELLATION POLICY
Classes must be paid in full at time of registration. No refunds are given for class registrations. If there is space in a future class in the same calendar year, the registration may be transferred if the request is received two weeks prior to the class date.