Every morning at 5:30, Lorie Arnold, 46, gets out of bed, grabs an apple and heads to the barn to milk her goats.
“I don’t have to be pretty,” she said. “The goats don’t care what I look like.”
It’s not the future she imagined for herself as a child in Spokane. She lived in the city, but had relatives with a farm. She remembers butchering chickens when she visited, but went on to become a property manager.
That changed when her partner’s mother inherited almost 20 acres on East Jamieson Road. Arnold and Shannon Meagher fell in love with the land and have turned it into Heron Pond Farm, a small business that specializes in artisan goat cheeses and heritage pork. This is their fourth year of licensed production. While Meagher holds a day job at Kiemle & Hagood, Arnold operates the farm.
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