{"id":206671,"date":"2026-03-26T09:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/206671\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T09:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:42:15","slug":"markets-tours-and-nannying-at-the-dancing-goat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/206671\/","title":{"rendered":"Markets, tours and nannying at The Dancing Goat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 A Tampa non-profit dairy farm is looking for a few good goat nannies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you are at least 15-years-old, you can become a goat nanny, learning how to feed and care for a baby kid is the first months of its life.<\/p>\n<p>The babies are coming to the <a href=\"https:\/\/dancinggoatdairy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Dancing Goat<\/a>, a non-profit dairy farm in the urban Tampa Bay area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell you do it often enough, you get hooked,\u201d said volunteer Phil Yeh. \u201cIt&#8217;s good therapy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After three years, Yeh know most of the goats by name and some by their sound.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really like your own child, you get very attached to them,\u201d said Yeh.<\/p>\n<p>Nannies learn how to prepare bottles and keep milk germ free for babies. There are two nanny sessions\u2014in the morning and in the afternoon.<br \/>And yes, they are wearing little pajamas.<\/p>\n<p>Annette Mardis organizes the Nanny Volunteer Program for the new babies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are very lovable, very sweet. They do bond to you,\u201d said Mardis. \u201cI just love them absolutely more than almost anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The farm keeps chickens, sells eggs and goat milk products to keep it all going.<\/p>\n<p>They have two markets weekly and offer a tour in addition to the nannying opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 A Tampa non-profit dairy farm is looking for a few good goat nannies.\u00a0 If you&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[7147,7150,7152,28,7151,115,4094,7149,139,135,137,136,7148,835],"class_list":["post-206671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-app-chefs-kitchen","tag-app-florida-on-a-tankful","tag-chefs-kitchen","tag-florida","tag-florida-on-a-tankful","tag-news","tag-on-the-town","tag-on-the-town-app","tag-orlando","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-virginia-johnson","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}