When Myriam Landry started raising goats for their meat in 2018, she started small — because she had to.
She opened Chèvrerie aux Volets Verts, in St-Esprit, Que., with two goats; she couldn’t afford a large herd and chose animals small enough that she could handle on her own while pregnant with her third child.
“I should have started bigger but then I would have needed more money, which I didn’t have,” Landry, 33, said in a recent interview from her farm 50 kilometres north of Montreal.
“It’s really hard for young people to start. I don’t even have land, I don’t have tractors, even my goats
