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Cashmere Kids 4-H

and Youth Outreach
Early on the Sisters encouraged youth development by selling goats to families with children.  St. Mary's on-the-Hill first participated in the local Washington County Fair to support involvement in the Fair by a family in-county which had purchased cashmere goats from them.  

In 2014 St. Mary's on-the-Hill leased ​goats to in-county youth for the first time through a program coordinated by Cornell Cooperative Extension which allows children who do not have space to raise livestock at home to lease an animal from a local farm to raise as a 4-H project. Youth from out-of-county who owned 
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Mika Ingerman with "Team Snazzy Goat"
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The Community
of St. Mary

Eastern Province
242 Cloister Way
Greenwich, NY, 12834

​Phone: 518-692-3028
Contact: The Rev'd Mother Superior


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  • Community of St. Mary (East)
    • Mission
    • History
    • The Divine Office
  • New York, USA
    • The Hidden Life
    • News
  • Malawi, Africa
  • Vocation
  • Associates
  • Plainchant Tradition
  • Monastic Diurnal Revised
  • Retreats & Conferences
    • Retreats/Institute Contact
    • Holiness Conference 2016
  • On-the-Hill Farm
    • Ora et Labora
    • How we got into farming....
    • St. Mary's on-the-Hill Cashmere >
      • Meet Our Goats
    • Meet our Dogs