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 |
The Community of St. Mary Eastern Province 242 Cloister Way Greenwich, NY, 12834 Phone: 518-692-3028 Contact: The Rev'd Mother Superior |