Mindy Quinn, a lifelong animal lover, began taking in homeless dogs on the farm in Saugerties, N.Y., where she lives with her husband. After that came the lambs, the chickens, the pigs and the goats. But animal care is costly — a problem Quinn, a kindergarten teacher, tries to overcome by making and selling organic goat milk soap. Her whole family pitches in to create and sell a product that sustains the environment and supports the whole menagerie.

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My Generation's Tara Mergener and Quinn take a walk around Pumpkin Patch Farms to learn how a herd of eager eating machines helps support a family and the animals they love.

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