Johnson's Launches "Goat Cam"
The story about how goats came to be on the sod roof of Al Johnson’s Swedish Restaurant has floated around Door County for decades. The intersection of technology with goats was inevitable, says Al’s son Lars, who now runs the restaurant with his siblings Rolf and Annika. “Our visitors fall in love with the goats and are always so concerned about them, their health, and their safety,” said Lars. “They want to know how they get onto the roof each day (there’s a very safe slanted stairway with foot-holds), where the goats go each evening when we take them off the roof and load them onto a pickup truck (to a barn and pasture at Lars’ home outside Sister Bay), and whether they can fall off the roof (yes, it’s happened a couple of times, but no one was hurt).” “What Rolf, Annika and I like about having a Goat Cam on the roof,” said Lars, “which is actually two web cameras with different perspectives of the entire roof area, is that our visitors and friends can maintain a relationship with the restaurant and the goats throughout the season, no matter where they live the rest of the year.” Al Johnson’s goats usually go onto the restaurant’s sod roof at the start of each tourism season, in late May. The goats then spend the winter in a barn and pasture from mid-October to the start of the next season.
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