hey, mike, our founder mary. how are you? it s good to meet you. you too. thank you for having us out here. turn towards me on this? yeah, you re good. so everybody s getting coveralls, huh? hi. how are you? likewise. thank you. these are all larges. you got it? oh, yeah. so then we are officially beginning. our official beginning starts right now. this is right where it starts. we are it. this is it. this is it. where are we? we re at cypress grove dairy. give me an outline of the day. what am i going to see and what do you think we re going to learn? so we re going to see what a modern dairy goat farm is about. you know, as opposed to the kind
the woodses are lovely. dark and deep. but i have cheeses now to eat. not to mention beers to drink. after a long day of goat farming and cheese making with our accidental entrepreneur mary keehn. how many beers do you need? how deep is the ocean? doug, this has to be hard for you, man. this has to be very difficult for doug. does he like beer? well, doug, as you may know is an alcoholic. oh. so yes. i didn t know that. so yes, he does. that s rough. set this here for you, pete. don t run away from me, pete. you can either eat it or do
what more do you need? i m happy. yeah. once a month we have an all-staff meeting where we all sit down and have lunch together. and we made an announcement that we contributed to the school lunch program over the summer and everybody cheered. it s not just at this level, you know, as founder. everybody cares. and to me, that s what is cool. you re not going to cry, are you? yeah, i cry all the time. i m not here to make you cry. well, you know what then? i m going to make you weep. my goal is to make you blubber and weep. i m close to it. you know what? you re a do-gooder. i do it every day i m talking. it s almost as though
up here over 3300 acres of humboldt county mary runs cypress grove chevre. she makes humble fog. but her success story took 30 years to unfold. i got my first goat. i lived next door to a cow dairy in sonoma. yeah. and they had goats for brush control. so they have cows and the goats are running wild. so my first daughter, i wanted the best milk for her. i asked the woman, if i could buy a goat. she said, honey, if you can catch one, you can have it. i would sit out there with grain and entice the goats to come closer every day. i grabbed hazel and esmeralda.