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TURNING TO A SIDE HUSTLE TO MAKE ENDS MEET. THEY ARE EATING MACHINES. THIS POISON IVY PATROL WILL EAT ANY INVASIVE PLANT FROM GRAPEVINES TO BITTERSWEET AND BEYOND. LOOK AT THIS YARD IN TEWKSBURY CHOKED OFF BY WEEDS UNTIL A TEAM OF GOATS WERE BROUGHT IN FOR A WEEK AND IT’S GONE. THIS STORY IS ALSO ECO FRIENDLY. SO WHEN THESE GUYS DO THE CLEANUP, THERE IS NO GAS INVOLVED. MITZI ROY WILL BRING HER TEAM TO YOUR HOME. BUT THIS SUMMER’S WEATHER HAS NOT BEEN GOOD FOR BUSINESS. JULY WAS SO WET AND NOT NECESSARILY THE RAIN. I DON’T MIND HAVING THEM OUT IN THE RAIN, BUT. BUT IT WAS THE STORMS WE WERE HAVING. I DON’T WANT HIM OUT THERE IN A TORNADO. I DON’T WANT HIM OUT THERE WITH THUNDER AND LIGHTNING. SO WHEN BUSINESS SLOWED DOWN, MITZI AND HER TEAM WENT TO THE MATT. BRING YOUR LEG BACK. THE YOGA MAT. SO IT JUST BECAME SOMETHING MUCH BIGGER THAN I EVER THOUGHT IT WOULD. MITZI GOT THE IDEA FOR GOAT YOGA WHEN SHE PICKED UP, SPENT BEER GRAINS AT A LOCAL BREWERY FOR THE GOATS TO EAT ON LAND. AND THAT’S WHEN YOGIS INQUIRED ABOUT GOAT YOGA. PEOPLE JUST LIKE GOATS, PEOPLE LOVE IT. THEY’RE LINED UP AT THE DOOR TO GET IN. SO WHETHER YOU NEED A PARCEL CLEARED FROM STEM TO SEED OR HELP WITH YOUR NAMASTE, THESE GOATS ARE MEETING DEMAND. ONE AT A TIME.
From landscaping to yoga, farmer says business booming for goats
Farmers say demand is growing for a low-tech way to clear invasive plants that can also create a unique yoga experience: Goats. They're small in stature, but Mitzi Roy's goats are industrial-scale landscapers. Roy said her goat landscape business has taken off."It's bigger than I ever thought it would be," she said.The goats are eating machines, eating everything around them. A small crew of goats munched through a large yard for a week and, when they were done, the invasive plants were gone.Roy got the idea to add yoga to her herd's business when she picked up spent beer grains at a local brewery for the goats to eat. Yogis asked her about using the animals and it has become a popular activity."People love it. They are lined up at the door to get in," Roy said.
Farmers say demand is growing for a low-tech way to clear invasive plants that can also create a unique yoga experience: Goats.
They're small in stature, but Mitzi Roy's goats are industrial-scale landscapers. Roy said her goat landscape business has taken off.
"It's bigger than I ever thought it would be," she said.
The goats are eating machines, eating everything around them. A small crew of goats munched through a large yard for a week and, when they were done, the invasive plants were gone.
Roy got the idea to add yoga to her herd's business when she picked up spent beer grains at a local brewery for the goats to eat. Yogis asked her about using the animals and it has become a popular activity.
"People love it. They are lined up at the door to get in," Roy said.
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