(goat kids bleating) (cool music) - [Jamie] Meet the newest additions to Maple Leaf Farm, Nubian baby goats, each one bringing joy to the world and just a little chaos.

They might be the cutest troublemakers you've ever seen.

But for Jeanne Suggate, the goats are more than just adorable.

They were the start of something unexpected and deeply meaningful.

- I grew up in Falmouth in the big city of Falmouth, and so I always considered myself a city girl.

We never had animals ever.

No cats, no dogs, nothing.

I married my husband and he had always done animals his whole life, so he talked me into raising some chickens for me.

So I did that and then he talked me into raising some pigs.

So I did that.

And each time I did it, I loved it because I love to learn.

- [Jamie] But the farm didn't truly begin until Jeanne got her goat, literally.

- So we bought our first goat and then we learned I'd never had an animal that had babies and I always told 'em I would never milk.

She sold me a pregnant goat and I had to learn to milk and then I had to learn to give a shot and it was just it.

It would just make cartoons, I'm telling you.

One thing just led to another in a way we want, here we are, a goat farmer.

- [Jamie] Today the farm is home to much more, chickens, mini horses, farm cats, and a fully licensed commercial kitchen.

At the heart of it all, cheese.

- This is our manmade cheese cave.

Everything is marked by what kind it is, when it was made, who made it, that kind of thing.

And then in the back we have some that we call our mystery cheese or the labels got lost or something.

So we sell it as a mystery cheese and people love it.

- [Jamie] From April through December, the farm becomes a destination.

There's soap making, cheese classes, goat school, water slide days, fall tastings, homemade soups, a storefront full of lotions, lip balms, bath soaks and more.

Plus a whole lot of farm fresh food.

- We run a CSA every year and a CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture.

You pay ahead in the winter time and then we grow the veggies and then every week you get a bag of vegetables from us.

And then we also, you get a dozen eggs from us and then a loaf of artisan bread.

And you can do one bag or two bags and that.

And then do you have the option, you can either get fruit every week, you can get our homemade cookies every week.

- [Jamie] It's a small operation with a big impact, especially when it comes to joy, which is exactly why Jeanne created the Baby Goat Experience.

- What we found is that everybody that came, everybody wants to hold the babies and pep them.

So we developed the Baby Goat Experience so people can come and they can spend 25 minutes in there and pet goats and snuggle 'em and love on them, and that.

(lively music) - It's not just about the baby goats, it's about connection and community.

(chuckling) - The best part of the whole thing is the people that come.

That's the best thing for me.

The people I have met is absolutely incredible.

I have made such friends, I have loved on people, I have prayed for people, but the love I back is just absolutely, it's just incredible.

That's the part I love the very most about that.

- [Jamie] Purpose lives in every part of this farm.

Even in the shop where a mannequin wears Jeanne's mother's wedding dress.

- But my mom always told me all my life, you can do whatever you want.

At 62, I took on this big project and built a greenhouse, and built a shop, and a cheese cave, and I just said, I need a piece of my mama with me, and so I brought her dress out and I put it on a mannequin and sits in there.

So I have my mama with me every day.

- [Jamie] And if you ask Jeanne what she hopes people take home.

- Joy.

I hope when they leave here, they've had, they come and they just had so much fun and they just leave here with so much joy in their heart, either by shopping in the store or playing with the kittens, zing around the goats, or just to be a part of the farm and the fresh air and the homesteading and to see the greenhouse and all that, joy is what I hope they leave with.

(lively music)