Small acreage use?

When we lived in town for a while growing up we had a lot that considered a double town lot but was still quite small by modern suburban standards. We grew all of our own vegetables an my mom canned enough to make it through the winter and spring. We never bought vegetables at the store. We had apple trees which she made into canned applesauce and frozen apples. We had grapes for jelly. We had some peach trees and pear trees. We hunted and got meat that way and bought fresh chicken spent the day butchering when we couldn't have birds of our own for one reason or another. We raised rabbits for a while until we frankly got tired of them.

You can grow a surprisingly large amount of food on a small lot if you're smart about it. If you can it away for the off season you can really put away a substantial amount.

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Respect The Cactus!

I would have no problem doing this, but our part of the city is under a clean-up mandate that is mostly aimed at blighted properties but they'll come out (and quickly!) for anything. One anonymous neighbor call to the city and they get permission to enter my fenced back yard and tell me everything ELSE I'm doing that is not up to city code.

I'm going to follow Wags' suggestion; copy the NDGA website, call the city and ask what the regulations are for exotic pets and if dwarf goats fall under that. If the city doesn't budge, I might follow Spinner's suggestion and see if there are other suburban goat-keeper wannabes (as well as experienced goatkeepers) that want to try the same thing they did in Seattle.

Nothing special, I just like it, and the canes come in handy for things like trellises and rooting out the bunny hiding under the shed!

they had an article about a native american family in Little rock AR a few weeks ago that the city code enforcers were going after about their pygmy goats it was really sad they were like members of their family and had been with them for years.

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marching to the beat of a different drummer