Two years ago, we deicded to add goats to our farm for milk production and also for the educational value they could bring to visitors.
We started by buying two does, which Elan picked by spending a significant amount of time at the breeders, and taking home the two friendliest goats there. We kept them and brought them up to weight, and then we bred them to get them milking.
When they delivered, they delivered three boys and one girl.
Which raised the question, what should we do with the boys? The two options were: sell them for meat, or raise them as ...
By Naomi Lipstein and Dr. Alon Tal
The ability to harness energy has been essential to life since the start of humanity. This ability, of course, has come in many different forms and has gone through massive transformations over the centuries. In the 18th and 19th centuries, coal fired the steam engine — arguably the most vital technology of the Industrial Revolution. It was the discovery of oil that allowed the revolution to flourish even further in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, in essence altering civilization. Today, there is little we do without ...
