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.

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Workshop Schedule & Details

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Learning Objectives

Holistic Animal Care Fundamentals: Understand 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: Learn about feeding regimens, natural home remedies, and basic housing, electrical systems, and herd dynamics on a homestead
Hands-On Skills: We will be milking, trimming hoofs, taking temperatures and learning different ways to care for our animals more holistically
Rotational Systems: See how we integrate goats in our regenerative grazing systems

Schedule

8:45am: Gates open

9:00am: Welcoming circle

9:30am: Hands-on goat milking demonstration and practice

10:30am: Instructional lecture on holistic goat care

12:00pm: Lunch

12:45pm: Hands-on goat handling, health tests, hoof trimming, behavior observations and grazing tour

2:45pm: Questions & answers about backyard setups and future plans

3:00pm: Closing Circle

3:15pm: Departure

Food

A hearty vegan lunch with the option of farm fresh eggs will be provided. We recommend eating breakfast to fuel yourself for the long day. We cannot accommodate all dietary restrictions, so if you are concerned about allergens please prepare your own lunch.

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 on our 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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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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