You adopt a goat from our farm in Treffurt OT Ifta (Germany). The livestock farming and the produce have both been certified as organic by the European Union as of 2002, and as Bioland as of 2015. The Thuringian Forest Goat is a native livestock breed that is threatened with extinction. It is characterised by its white face markings and otherwise chocolate brown coloured or black coat. It‘s a medium sized, sturdy goat that is robust and hardy compared to other goats. Its origins are in the German state of Thuringia, which is also where we keep our herd of 350 goats. Our goats stay outside in the summer months and in good weather and can eat the fresh grass and fragrant herbs, flowers, leaves and bark directly from our diverse pastures around the farm. In the winter months the animals stay in the barn, where they have a lot of space to move around even more than the Bioland-guidelines tell us to. We feed them with hay and lucerne silage made 100% from our meadows and fields. Additionally we give them organic concentrated feed preferably from Bioland-Farmers. Our young herd is 5 years old on average. However, the oldest animal right now is 10 years old. In order to keep the offspring and also the effort for my goats as low as possible, our goats only have lambs about every third year. Only the goats that are about to "go dry" (produce less milk) on their own, we put together with the ram so that they get pregnant again. We keep a part of our kids for breeding, another part we sell as young kids to other keepers who raise them themselves. And finally, another part is slaughtered as dairy kid and the meat is marketed regionally (e.g. Easter goat kid). The remaining animals are sold as slaughter animals. For as long as you want to keep it and we can continue taking care of it, you can renew your adoption year after year. If your goat dies, we will replace it with no additional cost and assuring the delivery of your harvest from other goats. Goats that leave our farm are either killed or slaughtered due to illness/age. Your adoption produces an average of 720l of goat milk each season. With this amount we can produce around 120kg of Bioland organic BBQ goat cheese. 120 CrowdFarmers will share the adoption, and each one will receive a box containing 1kg of Bioland organic BBQ goat cheese.