The herd is still eating blackberries and ivy at Meldrum Bar Park south of Portland, almost 14-1/2 acres total. Craig is having a hard time catching up to the goats. He has to use a hedge trimmer to knock the canes all the way to the ground. The first few weeks it was very noisy… 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
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
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