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
I, Nessie, was promoted to senior border collie for this last trip of another busy grazing season. Craig and I are still out with the goats on a project near the SeaTac airport. For most of September the goats were out working while the rest of us were at home. The goats were about an… Continue Reading
We’ve been working our way around the state of Washington and even made a short trip to Beaverton, Oregon. Our longest stay was in the Issaquah Highlands. We spent a little over three weeks at four different locations. It was interesting to see how dry the sites were compared to previous years. Some of… 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: This June we did a trail project for WA Department of Transportation to see if goats would be cost effective for WSDOT to use for managing noxious weeds along portions of the highways. The part we worked on was along new portion of Hwy 395 in North Spokane. The goats were out of… 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
The goats finished a large thicket of blackberries on a slope overlooking Puyallup. The goats did a great job of opening up the site which would have been very difficult with equipment due to the steep slope and soft soils. The site also had a number of native shrubs, including willows and salmonberry. The goats… Continue Reading
Harvey reporting for blog duty. We having been keeping busy moving the goats from one project to the next. The goats spent 11 days in Quincy, eating Kochia, Canadian thistle and other weeds on the berms and in a stormwater retention pond. We had several days that were 100 degrees or more. During the heat… Continue Reading
The goats had a short trip from Issaquah to Redmond last Tuesday. It turned out to be quite the blessing that we left on Tuesday instead of Wednesday. It poured down rain on and off all day Wednesday. The goats had trees and a small shed for shelter. If we had still been at the… Continue Reading