Rent a Goat

Unusable land?  Overgrown pastures? Abandoned vineyards or olive groves?  Weed-infested paths, lanes, stream banks, terraces? Impenetrable overgowth so thick in your woods that you cannot even walk through it?   

BLACKBERRIES AND HAWTHORNE?

We have the SUSTAINABLE solution for all of the above:  NO MACHINERY OR NON-REGENERABLE FOSSIL FUELS - Contact us for an estimate for clearing off your property  RENT A GOAT

Let us solve these problems by renting you our trained cashmere goats:  our goats do what they know best: browsing first the tender leaves, then the green bark, and finally the branches themselves, eliminating the most tenaceous plants, and destroying the re-growth, leaving fields, terraces and woods cleared and re-usable

Their preference for weeds, brush, undergrowth and brambles that invade otherwise good pastureland, makes them 'weedwackers with no spare parts'!   Only they don't use any non-rigerable fuel!

In late winter, when the season's supply of hay is running low and the bushes are still leafless, prunings from farms, parks, gardens, roads and paths substitute the goats' regular 'feed' - and they are greedy for these tasty treats - full of minerals and vitamins lacking in dried hay.

RECYCLING

Cashmere goats are useful not only to clear uncultivated, inacessable, terraced land, but also to RECYCLE large volumes of low-quality Bio-Masses that normally would be unused or burned(thus creating more atmospheric pollution) BROWSE DON'T BURN:  brambles, weeds, and almost all thorny bushes branches and twigs of fruit trees, ornamentals, hedges, cornstalks, straw, etc. olive tree prunings, grape prunings, cypress, linden, oak, chestnut, etc. By further composting, mixed with the goats' bedding and manure, our recycled 'weeds' are an ideal organic fertilizer for all types of vegetation, since it has a low level of azote, and can be quickly used by the plant without burning. On our farm we collect prunings and thinnings of olive trees, vines,  and various agricultural by-products The goats love these 'extras': full of tannins, minerals, vitamins that are not present in dried forage. The goats make the most of these 'snacks': eating first the leaves, then the tender green bark, and lastly the thicker, tougher bark that no other species will eat - thus, we harvest our free, tiotally organic 'fire-starters' to burn in our fireplace and wood stoves.

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