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next shared farm activity was breeding those two cute Nubian goats, Charlotte and Emily. "Each goat gave three-quarters of a gal- lon of milk a day, and we drank it," Liz says. "Then, Peter got the idea of making cheese and bought books on how to do that." Because there was no local cheese maker at the time to learn from, when the Mulhol- lands planned their honeymoon to Scotland, they also planned visits to cheese makers there to see what they could learn. 138 "One of the coolest places we visited was a farm belonging to a couple who sold their cheese to Harrods of London," Liz says. Adds Peter, "I had an early interest in brewing beer, and cheese making seemed a similar ar- tisanal offshoot. I thought, too, that making cheese here would keep the farm alive." Today, the couple, along with their boys, Andrew, nearly 13, and Henry, 9, along with Liz's mother, all work together on the farm. Peter takes morning milking duty, and other friends, plus students from Masco- nomet, help with afternoon milking. Close friend James Eveleth of Topsfield not only helps with milking during evenings (he took care of things while the Mulhollands honeymooned), but is also assisting the couple with their breeding program. "We talk daily about which does we should breed to which buck and which goats we should buy," Liz says. "I don't go to the shows; I just don't have time with all there