City law really gets their goat

It’s just not fair, said Peat Willcutt. How can it be legal to have goats, pigs and bees in St. Paul, but people in Minneapolis have to hide theirs?

As urban agriculture booms in the Twin Cities area, Minneapolis residents are pressing their city to let them expand their backyard farms beyond chickens to bees and hoofed animals.

“Why [these animals] can exist on one side of [Hwy.] 280 and not on the other is beyond me,” said Willcutt, assistant manager at the Mill City Farmers Market.

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