Category: Goats
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The goat fair was great! There was lots of Inca Kola, but even more home-made passion fruit juice, which is way better in my opinion. The fair was supposed to start at nine am but we didn’t arrive until nearly 11. Norca and I took a taxi to the fair, and she was nervous about…
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When I greet the baby goats, they skip across their pen and push their fury heads through the fence to nuzzle me with affection. After a moment, I realise their affection is for eating. They are trying to eat me. Not in a malicious or evil way. It’s more like they’re saying “hey, you’re a…
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These days my hands are almost always dirty. Between doing dishes, milking goats, and petting farmyard animals, clean hands are no longer the norm since I arrived at Centro Ganadero Aldea Ecologica, the goat farm. It’s a plot of dust in Carabayllo, one of the northernmost districts on the edge of Lima. Like tugging on…
Leah Gerber 