The goats and Craig have been working hard to knock down the blackberry thickets, so I (Nessie) took over the keyboard. Last weekend was quite wet. Craig had left an empty trough setting outside. The rain started on Friday evening and by Monday morning there was more than 4 inches of water in the trough.… Continue Reading
Harvey speaks: At Dayton we work for Columbia County on the levees to manage the weeds and the brush. The levees are steep and rocky, ideal conditions for the goats to work. The area the goats graze is fairly narrow, from the waters edge to the top of the levee averages around 40 feet wide.… Continue Reading
Harvey speaks: After we started off in early May, Craig had problems accessing the internet on the road. As a result both Nessie and I have not had a chance to get on the computer to update you on our daily adventures keeping an eye on the herd. Over the next couple of weeks we… Continue Reading
Harvey reporting again, since Nessie is at home now. The goats finished their work in Hood River and we moved on to Gladstone,OR. We are working on a project next to the Willamette River. The goats are working on blackberries and English Ivy. The goats have 10 acres to eat their way through. Craig estimates… Continue Reading
Three weeks in the Issaquah Highlands went by fast. The first week we were at Vista Park. Then we moved the goats up to Magnolia Street to a narrow tract between houses and the forest. There is only one way to bring the goats into the site so the goats have to come back the… Continue Reading
Harvey here. We spent the last weekend at the Bus Facility at East Base in Bellevue to clean up the English Ivy and a few blackberry canes. On Monday we arrived to a warm welcome to Issaquah Highlands for regular treatment of the steep slopes for weeds. The first location we are working at is… Continue Reading
We arrived safely to Hillsboro, OR on Tuesday. Craig was happily surprised that the drive went very smoothly with little traffic. We are working at the same location we worked at last September. The owner wanted us back early this year. We are working on one new area with lots of blackberries (the old growth… Continue Reading
Yesterday, Craig moved the goats to a new pen. The new brown kid was easy to find. The little black and white kid was a different story. Craig looked for him before he moved the goats and did not find him. So he decided to work on cutting down more blackberry canes for the goats… Continue Reading
We moved to Western WA on Tuesday. The cooler weather is nice. Definitely not as hot as Quincy. After Craig got the goats out into the pen, one doe was making a lot of noise. She was acting like she was looking for her kid but she did not have one. At least at that… Continue Reading
Craig has been busy this spring. We had a good kidding season, 95 goat kids on the ground running around. There were three sets of triplets. Craig had to pull one of the triplets off of one mom, since she decided three were too many. It is always busy getting everything ready to get… Continue Reading