Paradox Farm
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Paradox Farm is an organic goat farm and creamery located in West End, North Carolina. Owner Sue Stovall spent the summer of 2015 working with a volunteer from the World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms, which is a network of national organizations that places volunteers on organic farms across the world.
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Tema Toure drives a small vehicle around the land on her morning feeding round at Paradox Farm on Tuesday, July 14, 2015. Toure, originally from Mali and attending University in Paris, is a volunteer with World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF) for farm owner Sue Stovall, who runs a goat cheese creamery and farm in West End, North Carolina.
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Part of Tema Toure’s chores include feeding goats at Paradox Farm on Tuesday, July 14, 2015 in West End. Toure also works with farm owner Sue Stovall in the creamery, where they milk 21 goats every morning, usually starting at 6:30 AM.
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Farm owner Sue Stovall sends a goat out of the milking room after milking at Paradox Farm on Tuesday, July 14, 2015 in West End. Stovall converted her farm into a creamery in 2011 with her husband Hunter Stovall. Last year, Stovall’s husband passed away, and Toure has been a great help on the farm and also a friend.
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Tema Toure laughs as she milks a goat in the milking room at Paradox Farm on Tuesday, July 14, 2015 in West End.
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Sue Stovall moves one of her goats over on the milking table as she prepares to milk at Paradox Farm on Tuesday, July 14, 2015 in West End.
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Sue Stovall and Tema Toure share a moment of laughter as they clean the milking equipment after milking 21 goats at Paradox Farm on Tuesday, July 14, 2015 in West End.
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Tema Toure and Sue Stovall milk the goats by hand, after Stovall’s milking machine quit working –which she said it does every morning– at Paradox Farm on Tuesday, July 14, 2015 in West End.
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Tema Toure looks outside to count the goats left to milk at Paradox Farm on Tuesday, July 14, 2015 in West End.
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Goats enter the milking room and jump on the table at Paradox Farm on Tuesday, July 14, 2015 in West End.
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Tema Toure pushes Maggie the goat toward the entrance to the milking room at Paradox Farm on Tuesday, July 14, 2015 in West End. Maggie was the last goat of the morning to milk, and farm owner Sue Stovall said Maggie is always the last goat she milks in the mornings.
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Sue Stovall makes breakfast after an early morning of milking goats, as Tema Toure pours creamer in her coffee, in Stovall’s house at Paradox Farm on Tuesday, July 14, 2015 in West End. Toure and Stovall spend some time at breakfast each morning just talking across the table, sharing and learning about each other. Toure will return to Paris in early August.
Thursday, August 20th, 2015 at 6:57 pm