This last Saturday was a such a beautiful Day!  We had house cleaning scheduled but we had not seen the sun for so long we decided to work outside!

We were working through our various scrap piles, stacking and sorting the different projects when we realized how tall the curly dock was.  My son told me that once we had the piles separated he would get the mower and cut them down.   I started to agree and then remembered our newly acquired goats and how much they loved curly dock and all the other weeds on the property.

Until I get some temporary fencing that I can move around or halters and tether ropes, I am cutting the curly dock and putting it over the fence for the goats.  As I was doing this last night I was thinking how happy this weed made my goats and how nothing else in the barn yard would eat it.   Had I not had the goats, this weed would be wasted, I would simply cut it down and go on but now it is fattening my  new stock.

Here is my thought.  If you have weeds on your property but you are not interested in keeping a goat long term or through the winter you can either rent a goat(s) or buy a young goat  and feed her to sell in the fall providing food for someone else.  Your weeds could be contributing to the solution of feeding people in need, bringing extra money into the household, or helping a neighbor who has goats cut their feed costs all the while saving you gas and labor.

We are all aware of rising cost of gas, food and other goods.  We can be creative in how we meet these problems by thinking outside our own pastures and working with and for others in America's  struggle to survive this crisis.

Please check out the seminar we are hosting for Happy Goats Grazing LLC, 

Michelle Wendell can give us all a "Successful Start"  to our goat Journey.