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 

Mika Ingerman with "Team Snazzy Goat"