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Update-Hay hauled and one more project

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

On to Dayton

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

Goats are home (and so is Craig)!

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

Goats continue their work in Oregon

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

Goats have been working hard, says Harvey.

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

Goats on the move!

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

Nice visit to Oregon

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