The Beekman Boys: 10 Things I've Learned from Goats - Modern Farmer

The Beekman Boys: 10 Things I’ve Learned from Goats

" Five years in the country has taught me more about life than fifteen years in NYC," says Josh Kilmer-Purcell. Here's what he's learned.

[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]10. Don’t butt heads with anyone who has bigger horns.[/mf_h5]
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[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]9. The grass is always greener when someone else cuts it, bales it, and totes it over to where you’re already lying down.[/mf_h5]
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[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]8. Better the same old milking hands every day than getting used to a whole new set of callouses.[/mf_h5]
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[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]7. If you’re not sure about something, go ahead and taste it. You can always spit it out.[/mf_h5]
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[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]6. The manure may pile up in the winter, but it keeps the barn warm. Sometimes life is just one shitty trade-off after another.[/mf_h5]
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[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]5. If there is someplace to stand around and do nothing that is higher up than the current place you’re standing around doing nothing, it’s worth the effort to move.[/mf_h5]
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[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]4. If everyone else is running away in the same direction, join them now, ask questions later.[/mf_h5]
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[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]3. Getting mud between your toes is not as poetic as people make it out to be. Better to stay out of the rain in the first place.[/mf_h5]
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[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]2. There’s no better pillow than someone else’s tummy.[/mf_h5]
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[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]1. Fences are mere suggestions.[/mf_h5]
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