When Ezra Miller tells me he has a farm in Vermont, I think he's probably exaggerating a little bit. A farm. Okay. "I live on a farm in Vermont" sounds like something a celebrity says when they really mean they own a charming cabin on three acres that they visit twice a year when they need to get away from their other vacation homes. But Miller, the 26-year-old actor who broke out in films like We Need to Talk About Kevin and The Perks of Being a Wallflower, says it's really a farm, and that he really lives there.

"People think I'm someone who exaggerates," he says. "I think people tend to associate me as somewhat hyperbolic in my tendencies. I'm actually not so." He grins. "I try to be very honest."

Coat, $3,975, by Alexander McQueen / Jacket, $750, by SSS World Corp / Turtleneck, $1,575, by Hermès. Want the new issue? Click here to subscribe.

So I ask to come visit.

Days later, I'm standing in the middle of 100 acres of genuine Vermont farmland, observing Miller's apple orchard and chicken coop and a tractor and the greenhouse where he grows whatever his heart desires, which, this month, is saffron. (Much cheaper to grow yourself, he says.) Oh, and good news: The goat is going to give birth today, and Miller is going to deliver the kids.

Miller actually has four goats, he explains on our walk over to the periwinkle blue barn. He's holding a blue tin of American Spirit tobacco (which he never opens) and a mug of thick, brownish liquid that is "full of greens and adaptogens and plant-based proteins that fill one with energy and vivaciousness," he says. "We would call it The Juice of the Biggest Boy."

Miller himself is quite slender, with the high cheekbones and perfect jawline of a Victorian prince. For this long day of goat birth, he has chosen to wear a Bikini Kill T-shirt, black pants, light green winter boots from L.L. Bean, and a floor-length, paint-splattered Alexander McQueen coat. ("If I think about what [McQueen] would want me to do while wearing this coat—fucking be a midwife at a goat birth? Fuck yeah!" he says later. "Would he have been mad if some amniotic fluid got on this? No! He would have been delighted.")

Jacket, $9,000, turtleneck, $1,190, pants, $895, by Balenciaga / Ring, $795, by John Hardy

The goats are listening to NPR when Miller carefully opens the barn door. They love it, he says. Their names are Kathy, Betty, Patty, and Noisette, and they are wearing weather-appropriate pink and purple knit sweaters. "They're all pregnant," Miller says, matter-of-factly. "Every goat you're near right now." The air is thick with the promise of new life, and the hay floor is dotted with goat shit.