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
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 reports: We had a great grazing season. The goats were kept busy for 5 months on projects in Idaho, Washington and Oregon. Once we got home, Craig had to sort the goats to separate the young does from the mature does so he could turn in the bucks. Do not want any of the… 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
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
Craig had another easy drive from Oregon back to WA. Only one slow down getting across the bridge into WA. Our goats are working on a new area for the golf course. It is quite a thicket of blackberries. Craig had to pull out the metal panels again to smash down the tall thicket so… Continue Reading