Anala (ah-NAH-la) Goat Company is the product of  Teg Gregory and Shelby Brown.   Teg and Shelby met at a 'Spill-Your-Guts' workshop in December of 1993, and were soon life partners. Anala is the name of Shelby's beloved childhood nanny, Anala Hebert. Mommy Nell is a loving, strong and wonderful woman, a native of Abbeville, Louisiana -- heart of Cajun country.  She's also the best cook under the sun.  Rumor has it that Shelby spoke with a french accent when she was a baby, and her favorite dish is still Gumbo!  Mommy Nell retired back to Abbeville, a grand lady at the age of 96, playing bingo and making jumbalaya.  We love her very much!

The Travis clan in 1870 homesteaded in Follett just as the original "Dancing With Wolves" was playing out. At various times Coronado, George Armstrong Custer, Kit Carson, Bat Masterson, Buffalo Bill Cody and over 100,000 Texas Longhorn cattle  cut across the family's front lawn. Nestled in the armpit of the Oklahoma Panhandle in the extreme northeast corner of the state, is Follett, Texas, 50 miles closer to Canada than Mexico.

The community started out as Ivanhoe, Oklahoma, wised up and moved to Texas to catch the railroad. The town elders sucked-up to the special interests and named the town Follett after some railroad supervisor. That  1919 global repositioning put Follett at ground zero for the 1937 Dustbowl. The Travis family had their bags packed for Idaho when the rains came. The demise of 'steam' in 1956 eliminated employment by the railroads and brought an economic drought until the Arab oil embargo created exploration activity. Recently fame visited upon the area as the location for the last 10 minutes of Tom Hanks' movie "The Castaways". The film's director needed a highway intersection in the middle of nowhere.

Shelby Ann Brown encountered the 'grass' ceilng in her childhood visits to her grandparents' - George and Leola Travis - farm, six miles east of town on the Oklahoma-Texas line. Grandpa Travis thought Shelby should stay in the house and bake cookies like Hillary would some day not do.

When Shelby heard that her mother and siblings were about to let Century 21 sell her 130 year ancestoral heritage to just anyone, she stepped up to the prairie, sold her home in Houston, quit her job and moved her family to the Texas Panhandle.

Days after arriving Shelby chose the Cortez model over Coronado, "burning her boats" by taking out a PCA loan to purchase four bred nannies from the nearest Boer Goat dealer, Troy Powell's "Little League Ranch", four and one-half hours away in Benjamin, Texas.

Where the buffalo had roamed. Where half of the nation's hogs and cattle are fed and bled, Shelby Brown, livestock farmer wannabee was now going to populate the landscape of her forefathers with fullblood Black Boer goats.