My name is Andrew Bowler. I have a degree in Animal Science and Agricultural business from Colorado State. I had my first goat at the county fair when I was nine years old. I have been in agriculture since I was six years old. I spent 11 summers commercial fishing in Alaska. In 2019, while I was living in Colorado working for a mid-sized pig and chicken farm, my mother was diagnosed with stage four cancer. I packed up all my belongings (including my 200lb pot-bellied pig) and drove straight to my family home in the bay area. In the following years I found my way to Pescadero, California where I worked for a small goat dairy. Through a fortuitous turn of events I was introduced to Lani Malmberg and her son Donny Benz of Goat Green LLC and the Goatapelli fund while they were working at a neighboring property with their herd of 850 Spanish Cashmere goats. At the time, I was a year into managing a small beef herd. Inspired by grassland and soil pioneers such as Jim Gerrish and Gabe Brown, I spent most of my time monitoring the effects of intensive cattle grazing on lush riparian pastures. I quickly came to realize that what I was doing on 20 acres with 10 Cows, I could do on thousands of acres across the west with hundreds of goats. I bought a dog (Juneau) and took 35 retired dairy goats out on their first job. The rest is history.