Yesterday I came across a very intriguing article on The Daily Progress’s newspaper website entitled, “City Rolls Out the Red Carpet for Mini Goats”. This obviously stuck out to me as the writer intended it to, so I clicked on it to read. Yes, it’s true the city of Charlottesville will now allow city residents to own a maximum of three mini goats. Now I know what some of you may be thinking, ‘Does this mean we will be seeing mini goats walking around grounds?’ the answer to that is no, unfortunately not. According to this article residents may own goats and they “can be kept within any residential zoning district in the city” but “Mini goats would not be allowed to roam freely in the city, according to the new law”. Though there are some opponents to this new law, I think that it is a great idea. As the article discusses it will give people within the city the opportunity to provide milk for themselves. It seems to be a starting new trend for people to find food more locally (i.e. the farmers market that is held in the main parking lot every Saturday at the downtown mall) and producing it your self takes this local food idea a step further. So even though you wont get to see these little goats roaming around the Corner, they are present in our community.
Information on the article:
Dixit, Rachana. “City rolls out red carpet for mini goats.” The Daily Progress. Sept. 7,2010. <>.
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