What the G.O.A.T?
Those of us who live in Northern California are lucky, especially if you are interested in quality food. We have easy access to so many wonderful artisan food producers and growers. CSA (Consumer Sponsored Agriculture) box choices are aplenty, fresh and seasonal at your fingertips, and passionate people with visions scattered about.
Three women are just such passionate people whose visions came to fruition. Dubbed the “G.O.A.T. Girls”, they know a few things about goats and goat milk products because they are truly pioneers in what they do, with years of experience behind them.
These successful ladies are Laura Howard (pictured above with Jethro) of Laloo’s Goat’s Milk Ice Cream, Jennifer Lynn Bice of Redwood Hill Farm & Creamery, and Mary Keehn of Cypress Grove Chevre. They’ve recently come together in a campaign to educate consumers about the multitude of health benefits and wide variety of goat’s milk products available to us, and that goats are green. The start of this campaign is at
supergoat.org, your goat information portal!
Being a goat cheese fan, Redwood Hill, Cypress Grove and I go back years. What could be better than a dollop of Cypress chevre stuffed in a fresh fig? Or disc slices of a Redwood Hill crotton heated on a slice of levain bread and drizzled with balsamic reduction? Then I met Laloo’s goat ice cream and fooled my husband. When he grabbed the pint from the fridge, he looked at it funny then asked where the great mint ice cream was that I’d gotten him….(Ha, ha!)
Jennifer at Redwood Hill
Hearing the three joined forces caught my attention. What I learned is they are committed and they’ve got core values of fair trade, green environmental and humane practices in all they do. For example, Redwood Hill is the first U.S. goat dairy qualified as a Humane Farm Animal Care (HCFA) dairy. This means all goats are humanely raised and handled. Laloo’s works with Waterkeeper Alliance promoting watershed protection in the U.S. Last year, Cypress Grove received the Green Entrepreneur Award from SAFE-BIDCO, a California organization who recognizes companies that champion sustainable business practices and are committed to environmental stewardship. Each of them continually gives back to their community in some form or another!
Mary Keehn, Cypress Grove
So now, if your curiosity is peaked, head to the portal. Or better yet, head to Corti Brothers, Taylor’s Market, Whole Foods Market, or the Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op to pick up some goat cheese or ice cream to try.
So what's the G.O.A.T message? Goats are the “greatest of all time”. Go to Super Goat to find out more!