Ten years ago, Jessica Farrar visited a farm outside of Augusta to buy a guinea pig for her son and unexpectedly fell in love with the farm’s lone water buffalo.
Deep, I-have-to-have-one, love.
“There was a connection,” said Farrar. “A lot of times, cows are aloof to people, they really don’t care if you’re there or not. This animal wanted to interact, kind of like a horse might do. Knowing eyes, curious eyes, thinking.”
After a few exploratory visits to a herd in Vermont, her husband, Brian, was in. First, they raised the animals for meat.
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