Idyll Farms

Idyll Farms, LLC
Private
Industry Cheesemaking, Agriculture
Founded 2012
Headquarters Northport, Michigan, U.S.
Website www.idyllfarms.com

Idyll Farms is a pasture-based goat farm and creamery in Northport, Michigan that produces award-winning artisanal farmstead chèvre. Idyll Farms chèvres won multiple and repeat awards at the American Cheese Society North American competition in 2013 and 2014 (for goat milk as well as for the broader all milk cheese categories).[1]

Idyll Farms is owned and operated by hedge fund manager Mark Spitznagel,[2] who built the sustainable farm after acquiring its approximately 200 acres in 2010 in his hometown. Idyll Farms is growing its milking herd into 200 certified-humane, pasture-fed French Alpine goats.[1] (Idyll refers to a pastoral scene depicted in song or poem.)

Idyll Farms Detroit

In June, 2014, Idyll Farms moved a herd of their wethers (castrated male goats) along with movable pens and electric fencing from Northport to the heavily blighted Brightmoor neighborhood of Detroit in a philanthropic effort to have the grazing goats clean up overgrown foliage and to help the struggling community through agriculture, jobs, education, and self-sufficiency. Despite heavy local support as well as national media attention for the “guerrilla”[3] Idyll Farms Detroit project (including from Ron Paul[4]), Mayor Duggan immediately ordered the goats removed because of a city ordinance banning all livestock.[5][6][7]

References

  1. 1 2 Idyll Farms Wins Two Awards at 2014 American Cheese Society National Competition, Yahoo! Finance, August 13, 2014
  2. ↑ Feeding the Bubble: Is the Next Crash Brewing?, Der Spiegel, December 3, 2013
  3. ↑ The Goats of Detroit, Modern Farmer, June 18, 2014
  4. ↑ Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan Halts Urban Farming Project in Struggling Neighborhood, Ron Paul Channel, June 9, 2014
  5. ↑ Fund Manager Sets Goats Grazing in Blighted Detroit, The New York Times, June 5, 2014
  6. ↑ A Deadline for Goats to Get Out of Detroit, The New York Times, June 6, 2014
  7. ↑ City of Detroit butting heads with blight-eating Brightmoor goats, Detroit Free Press, June 6, 2014

Coordinates: 45°09′08″N 85°37′43″W / 45.15219°N 85.62862°W / 45.15219; -85.62862

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