Behind every little business is a great team

What makes this business tick over is the goats. They were the reason for the creation of Clean Goat Co. and the basis for running a working smallholding to sustain that. 

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I live here with my parter Tony and together we farm on a small scale. We keep a herd of goats, two pets pigs, a flock of sheep alongside Thor the pony, Zoe the elderly horse and of course the dogs and cats, many of whom are rescued and are here living it up now under our care.

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Running a smallholding is a challenging task particularly if you wish as we do to be as self sufficient as possible. Managing the years' task can be a full time job from wood cutting/sorting to growing the vegetables you hope will fill the kitchen and with time spent also processing more of the produce you can store more food like sauces, jams and pickled foods for the larder.

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I also like to spend my time gardening, it creates more spaces for larger plants like pumpkins and squash to spread about meaning that I can concentrate on the more intensive vegetable growing to the kitchen garden which makes spotting pests and issues easier to deal with.

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All of the livestock here are chosen for a purpose such as sheep poo is very helpful to grazing, goats eat all the hedging cuttings each year and make great composters for such things so I don't need to process or dispose of that material. The pigs eat anything from the kitchen garden that isn't heading into the kitchen.

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