CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — It’s the season where love is in the air, so why not celebrate with goats? 

Aside from the goat kissing booth, Spring Haven Farm in Chapel Hill transitioned its farm to celebrate Valentine’s Day, including a "Love Languages" love shack walk-through. 

But the love spreading doesn’t stop after the holiday. Beginning Feb. 16, the farm will kick off its popular baby goat festival, where visitors can bottle feed the newest additions to the farm. 

Ceiran Crihfield grew up working on his family’s farm that opened to the public in 2016. 

“My family came here in the early 2000s, and we came here primarily as a horse farm. We used to have like 20 horses that we would take care of every day, and did riding lessons,” said Crihfield. 

The farm transitioned to focus on vegetable farming after Crihfield’s mother decided to begin medical school. 

“We learned there wasn’t a big market here in Hillsborough for vegetables. There were a lot of other people already doing that,” said Crihfield. 

Then came the goats. 

“All this started with goat yoga. It was two months of goat yoga, then started doing more and more events,” said Crihfield. 

The goats have become a permanent staple to every holiday and event that the farm holds.

In October, they host a popular event where visitors can carve pumpkins with the help of goats. The farm has an open “goat yard,” where visitors can hang out and interact one-on-one with two dozen goats as they freely roam the yard. 

As visitors walk around, they’ll also be walking alongside the farm’s companions, including Toby the turkey, Peppa Pig and Annie the Donkey. 

Crihfield says the goal of the farm is to spread kindness with each visitor. 

“One of the real big goals of the farm, is to teach people how to interact with animals and show them animals are as much as a creature as we are, and that philosophy in taking care of the animals and making sure they are healthy and we treat them well has been a fundamental philosophy of the farm since the beginning,” said Crihfield. 

Spring Haven Farm is currently operating by reservation only to limit the amount of visitors on the farm to follow COVID-19 protocol.