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A tiny flower sticks out of the snow as a winter storm brings freezing temperatures to North Texas on Monday in Dallas.(Lola Gomez / Staff Photographer)
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We usually take them out to the forest to forage every morning, which I did today, Conard said. But there s not a lot of greenery out there, so I guess when I brought the trees back in here they were just ravenous for more.
Eating the discarded trees helps the goats produce more milk, while they prepare the trees for their next life. The trunks will be used by a group that makes walking canes for disabled veterans. I think it s a beautiful thing, but then it s, like, kind of patriotic for us to be thinking about something that would go to the landfills, Anderson said. There are wasteful things that are going on in the world, but right here, I call this a little sanctuary.
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Workers outside at Bonton Farms.(Juan Figueroa / Staff Photographer)
By Ron Simmons
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Late last year, I made my third trip to Bonton Farms in southern Dallas. Each time I leave to go back to my home in the northern suburbs, I feel angry, overwhelmed, sad and encouraged, all at the same time.
I’m angry because the public policies put into place over the years on criminal justice and welfare have exacerbated many of the problems residents of the Bonton neighborhood experience.
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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.