Do you have a favorite?”
Five-year-old Ivan Cook considers the question, looking from goat to goat. After some thought, he rattles off the names of several of the herd, while all around him, the goats dance, sniff his small hands, and nudge him for attention.
There’s Ginger, the family’s very first milking goat, Luna and Elwood, as well as 11 others of varying shapes, breeds, and rock star–worthy coats of wool, all of whom are an important part of the sustainable, community-oriented operation that is the Cook