Relaxed Farming - our farm in your classroom

When the grass stops growing, we will happily steal the goats' hay: spring grass is best, all that lovely new growth and fresh sugars but in late autumn/winter grass tends not to taste so good, a bit like eating biscuits that are ever so slightly stale.

Grass that has been cut at its best and then dried and turned into hay is the next best thing for us and even though our owners mainly buy it in for the goats, if we have to stay inside in the winter, we are very happy to eat it too.

Just like goats we are ruminants (see the Goat pages) so we need to eat on and off all day. In the winter we might even need some pelleted food to make sure we are still getting all the vitamins and minerals we need.