Jumping Goats Dairy

For German-born Jussi Stader, it would be a big jump from living in Dunbar and working in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh to running a small croft on the wind-battered moors and hills of the north coast of Scotland, but in 2008 Jussi and her family moved to Bettyhill to rear goats. In the Highlands people used to have goats as well as sheep, cattle and horses on their crofts so Jussi set about researching goat breeds and how it might be possible to make a sustainable living. Cheese making seemed the way to go so she attended one of Kathy Biss’s legendary courses at the West Highland Dairy. Jussi started by making cheese on her windowsill, then turned the dining room into a micro-dairy and Jumping Goats Dairy took off!