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Boers in the Afternoon

Meet the Tree Family — twelve Boer goats including Myrtle, Oakly, and Spruce, now cooling off under shade cloth sent by a single supporter's wishlist click.

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A herd of Boer goats — predominantly chestnut-brown with long floppy ears and curved horns, along with several brown-and-white and solid dark individuals — mill about in front of a corrugated metal run-in shelter at dusk. A large golden shade sail stretches overhead, casting soft shadow across the hay-covered ground. Desert mountains ridge the horizon under a pale evening sky, and metal panel fencing frames the dusty yard on either side.

Those horns grew here. The shade came from you.

This is part of the Tree Family — Myrtle, Oakly, Spruce, Sycamore, Sassafras, and the rest of the twelve Boer goats who keep their aging Matron Maple company. (Not everyone fit in the frame. Twelve goats rarely do.) The shade cloth over their heads arrived straight off our Amazon wishlist — one supporter clicked, and a whole family got summer in the shade.

Which brings us to a small favor. Over the years, your support has reached us through a lot of different doors — older donation links, third-party giving pages, platforms from campaigns past. We're bringing it all home to one: steampunkfarms.org/donate. If your giving still travels one of those older routes, would you take two minutes today to check and move it over? More of every gift lands here, and we get to thank you properly.

Everything these goats stand under, eat, and lean on exists because people keep showing up for them. Check your giving — or start — at steampunkfarms.org/donate. The wishlists (shade cloths included) live at steampunkfarms.org/donate#wishlists. And if a share is all you've got today, that helps more than you know.

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