Cassandra Messer spoke with the Missouri On Mic team at last year’s Missouri State Fair. Messer works for the Missouri Department of Natural Resources as an assistant superintendent at Watkins Mill State Park. She spoke about her mother and their family goat farm.

Cassandra Messer: "So I actually was the first one to get a pygmy goat. And I named her Tinkerbell."

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Cassandra Messer: "So I actually was the first one to get a pygmy goat. And I named her Tinkerbell."

Cassandra Messer: "So I actually was the first one to get a pygmy goat. And I named her Tinkerbell."