Goats begin trotting in from the pasture on Sept. 26 at Kandi Acres farm near Hawick. Kandi Acres has more than 500 goats. Photos by Shelby Lindrud / West Central Tribune
GOATS GALORE
Kandi Acres near Hawick is a halal-certified meat goat farm
By Shelby Lindrud | West Central Tribune HAWICK — Tiffany Farrier knew practically nothing about farm life — and even less about raising goats — when she moved to Hawick in 2017 and purchased a 30-acre farm site with her husband. “I was kind of intimidated,” Farrier said, who moved to Minnesota from Las Vegas. Yet, a few years later she now operates Kandi Acres, a 500-head goat farm, the only one in the state that is halal-certified. “If you face me with a challenge, I will figure it out,” Farrier said. “I am a problem-solver.” Page 16 – November 2022 – West Central Tribune
Raising goats
When Farrier bought the farm, she figured she’d purchase some chickens and a few goats, nothing crazy, but just enough for a bit of a hobby farm. By the end of that first fall, she had about a dozen goats of the pygmy and fainter breeds. “I knew nothing about what I was doing,” Farrier said. A short while later, she got a call from a woman getting out of the goat business and Farrier purchased 10 Savannah Boer goats, with a growing idea to raise and sell meat goats. Farrier’s herd was still on the tiny side when her
