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Daron Babock greets a Bonton Farms goat, penned inside what's known as the "goat mansion," back in 2017.
Once the ornaments are stripped and the lights unwound, instead of hauling the Christmas tree out to the curb, consider dropping it off at Bonton Farms in South Dallas.
While tree needles may be vacuum-fodder at home, to the goats at Bonton Farms they're a delicacy.
"I love ice cream. Well pine needles to goats are like ice cream to me," laughed Bonton Farms CEO Daren Babcock.
The working urban farm with a café, coffee shop and market is in a south Dallas neighborhood once considered a food desert.