Goat Care

Curious about keeping goats? Whether you're a beginner or looking to integrate goats into your permaculture system, this full-day workshop will give you the knowledge and confidence to raise happy, healthy goats. Learn about rotational grazing, natural health care, enclosure solutions, and how goats can regenerate your land. Get hands-on experience with hoof trimming, feeding strategies, comprehensive health screenings and even milking! Come prepared to learn, laugh, and leave with practical skills for holistic goat keeping. Learn directly from our experienced farm team in a supportive, hands-on environment.

Bring all your questions!

Workshop Schedule & Details

Date & Time

Saturday, May 3rd, 2025 9:00am - 3:15pm

Learning Objectives

Holistic Animal Care Fundamentals: Understand the difference between conventional and holistic approaches to general animal husbandry, focusing on Goats
Living systems tour: We will have a guided walk through our various integrated animal rotation systems to help see the knowledge in action.
Nutrition & Health: Discover ideal feeding regimens, water care, basic housing and herd dynamics on a homestead
Hands-On Skills: We will be trimming hoofs, taking temperatures and learning different ways to care for our animals more holistically
Goats: Practice with our farm teams guidance on hoof trimming, weight testing, temperature testing, home remedy mixes and many other demos.
Rotational Systems: See how we integrate goats in our regenerative grazing systems

Schedule

8:45am: Gates open

9:00am: Arrival & welcoming circle

9:30am: Farm Walk & Introduction to Backyard Goat Care

10:00am: Lecture: Housing, Security, Nutrition, and Health Fundamentals

11:30am: Lunch

12:30pm: Hands-on demonstrations

2:30pm: Q&A Session

3:00pm: Closing Circle

3:15pm: Departure

Food

A hearty, vegan lunch will be provided. Please bring a water bottle and feel encouraged to bring your own snacks. Try to eat a hearty breakfast to avoid any hunger distractions.

Payment

These pricing tiers were thoughtfully calculated to reflect the costs of our farm operations, food provided, and educator's time.

We offer three tiers of payment:

Early Bird: $90 - Closed
Standard Tuition: $120
Pay it Forward: $150 - Attend & sponsor a scholarship

The pay-it-forward tier allows us to continue offering scholarships to folks in need.

Group Discount:

Looking to train a group on animal care? Email us at programs@mamatreeojai.com for information on a group discount. We would love to help fellow farms or groups to get their workforce trained up here.

Scholarships

Financial assistance is available for folks in need of financial support to participate in this workshop. Please contact us directly if you are needing support at programs@mamatreeojai.com

Refund Policy

A 90% refund will be provided upon cancellation if we are notified 1 week in advance (4/26/25 at 9:00am). The 10% not returned accounts for the GoDaddy processing fee as well as our registration fees. We can provide a refund of 50% up until two days before the workshop begins (5/1/25 at 9:00am). However, due to preparation expenses, we are unable to provide a refund if a cancellation occurs within two days before the workshop begins.

Learning Environment

The course will be held at Mama Tree Farm which is a 20-acre family-owned orchard with the mission to increase biodiversity and the health of our ecosystem.
We will be walking the land for the first part of the day and then sitting down in the orchard near our animals to receive the basic theory on the various subjects involved in holistic animal care.
The day then heads into a hands demonstration where staff will show students the various techniques involved in holistic animal care, each student will then have the space and opportunity to take these techniques on for themselves to learn by doing.
We will then wrap the day up by giving the participants a time to unpack what they have learned by asking specific advice or general questions about their herd or flock in a Q&A style setting.

Meet Your Instructor

Logan

Logan is a whole systems thinker and the cultivator of conscious and creative systems. He has 10 years of global Permaculture practice and design working in each climate zone of the world. His passion for animal husbandry, years of experience in the industry and teaching PDCs is his greatest asset to Mama Tree educational programs. He understands how to make large complex fields of knowledge seem easy to grasp and to engage with helping him to guide people into the world of regenerative systems design.

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Early Bird - $90

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Standard Tuition - $120

Standard Tuition - $120

Standard Tuition - $120

Standard Tuition - $120

Pay it Forward - $150

Standard Tuition - $120

Pay it Forward - $150

Meet Your Instructor

Logan

Book learning is great, but when it comes to learning about comprehensive multi-input systems like regenerative farming, nothing beats seeing it in action. There is so much information about how it all works together that you can only get with your with your six senses & boots on the ground.

Backyard Goats

A hands-on workshop with goat herd husbandry from backyard to farm scale systems

Workshop Schedule & Details

Learning Environment

Register

Early Bird - $90

Standard Tuition - $120

Standard Tuition - $120

Standard Tuition - $120

Standard Tuition - $120

Standard Tuition - $120

Pay it Forward - $150

Standard Tuition - $120

Pay it Forward - $150

Meet Your Instructor

Logan

Book learning is great, but when it comes to learning about comprehensive multi-input systems like regenerative farming, nothing beats seeing it in action. There is so much information about how it all works together that you can only get with your with your six senses & boots on the ground.

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