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Baaaad idea? City’s goatscaping program dies off as goats disappear
In Portsmouth, Virginia, the city decided to purchase 10 goats and 10 sheep back in 2013 to “mow” the grass. Read more about the program after 4 years..
August 14, 2017
Design-Build
A look at New York’s many parks – the one to rule them all
Probably one of the most well-known parks in the country, the 843-acre park was America’s first major landscaped public park & fostered the urban park movement.
June 5, 2017
Design-Build
Landscapers discover their competitors are a bunch of animals
In July, three herds of goats will return to Boston, where they will eat plants that are poisonous to people, yet tasty to goats. In one week, four goats can eat through one-third of an acre of shrubbery. Ryan Woods, spokesman for the Parks and Recreation Department, told The Boston Globe, “Bringing in the goats […]
June 12, 2015
Design-Build
Paid to Eat
Forget about harmful emissions, gas prices and the ethanol debate when you add these wooly grass eaters to your lawn-maintenance fleet. Eddie Miller founded Heritage Lawn Mowing in Oberlin, Ohio, and did just that by renting out Jacob sheep as a landscaping aid. He took the sheep to about 20 clients’ yards where they grazed […]
February 8, 2013
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