Thanks to some wonderful animals, area farmers and herders, land managers with an interest in sustainability, and the Center's Pasture Program, Vermont livestock is keeping busy eating weeds and invasive species that are cropping up in unwanted places.
Here in summer 2018, there's been a small surge of interest in this work in local and national media - and so we thought we'd provide links to some of that coverage for our like-minded fans of weed-munching small ruminants. Enjoy!
- New York Times, August 8, 2018: Vermont City Employs Goats to Get Rid of Poison Ivy, https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2018/08/08/us/ap-us-goats-poison-ivy.html, Lisa Rathke for AP
- WCAX, August 9, 2018: Goats gobble up Montpelier's poison ivy problem, http://www.wcax.com/content/news/Vermont-city-employs-goats-to-get-rid-of-poison-ivy-490372801.html, Neal Goswami
- Montpelier City Manager's Weekly Report, August 10, 2018, https://www.montpelier-vt.org/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/4456, William Fraser