VT Goat Co-Op & Incubator Hub

At A Glance

Location: 

Groton, Vermont

Primary Issue Area:

  • Food
  • Living Economies

Active since:

2023

Our Purpose

Our purpose is to bring people of the global majority, queer folx, and accomplices into a mutually beneficial cooperative focused on raising goats for meat and dairy. According to the USDA, only 4% of Black-owned farms are working primarily with small ruminants. Our group is comprised of folx who have felt isolated and sometimes discouraged in their desire and ability to work with livestock. Knowledge is often gatekept and resources are born of potentially dangerous networking chances. Based in Central VT & NEK, the purpose of our co-op is to work with fellow goat producers to bolster nutrition, feed, means of production, market access, shelter, respite for the farmer, LGD training, and veterinary care. We also intend to partner with folx who are goat world adjacent, such as hay farmers, companion goats, podcasts, and artist residencies. This co-op is meant to be defiance in the face of individualism and capitalism.