Understanding Goat Grazing | Ask This Old House
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.พ. 2024
- In this video, This Old House plumbing and heating expert Richard Trethewey steps (carefully) outside his normal trade to show us an eco-friendly way to clear overgrown yards: goats with an insatiable appetite.
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Plumbing and heating expert Richard Trethewey shows us a unique approach to landscape clearing. Rather than letting plants overgrow and create fire hazards, Richard introduces us to a non-profit that brings goats to a homeowner’s yard where they clean the brush and create a naturally clean environment (complete with compost!).
Where to find it?
Richard partnered with City Grazing [www.citygrazing.org/], a non-profit based out of San Francisco that rents goats to businesses and homeowners for challenging weeding projects. Properties with existing fencing can be done more easily, but properties without fencing can have a temporary fence installed for an additional cost.
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Understanding Goat Grazing | Ask This Old House
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Missed opportunity to show the results of the goats hard work! 🐐
I imagine the cost of leaving the crew in SF an additional two weeks would have cost twelve million dollars.
@@andrewnotarian12 this is PBS, not CNN...
i wanted to see the after
💩💩💩💩
I love goat's❤❤ And you❤
As a goat owner I think this was one of my favorite videos you've done 😊. Mine maintain the undergrowth in my woods, give me manure, milk, and lots of personality.
(They're more excited-er.)
Point of fact: goats prefer browse (shrubs and trees). Sheep prefer forbs (weeds). Cattle prefer grasses. Each will eat browse, forbs and grasses, but they are all specialists, and best chosen for the circumstances...
Love to see folks using good practices that help the earth, plus you get personality and 24/7 coverage. I lived in a rural area for about 12 years, and you'd see flocks of goats clearing the foliage from the levee roads (too steep to mow, and the process was cool as the humans would just move the fencing further along the road mile by mile.) I liked to see them along the river roads!
i like the "Well, we moved in a few years ago and you used to be able to go up there and enjoy the property", but we decided to do literally 0 yard work, so this is what we have!
Maybe he's allergic to Yard Work 🤷♂️
My thinking exactly. He acts like some sort of victim
Sometimes people get too busy with work and don’t have time. Don’t be too judgmental of total strangers circumstances.
@@rickwallace2091maybe he's taking care of his wife with terminal cancer. You have no idea what you're talking about.
@@kent223 and you obviously have no idea as well. Terminal cancel, throw some rationality into to statement. Honestly what are the chances of that.
This is wonderful and I think goats are some of the coolest animals around!
I’ve seen this done before. An excellent win-win for everyone including the goats. They get a variety of vistas, foods, are well treated. The customer gets a quiet, friendly, environmentally beneficial solution to their problem, the neighbors get a pleasant neighbor for a week or so, and the property is improved with zero environmental damage or concerns. Lastly, the goats’ owner gets paid for letting his herd eat for free.
I have two pygmy goats getting the job done. Great video and exactly why I got them. Low cost low maintenance, and just hilarious to watch
I saw a documentary about using goats for property management a few years ago. As a goat lover I thoroughly approve and think it’s high time they are appreciated for more than meat and 4-H projects! 😉👌👍💕💕💕
As a kid growing up on a farm we had 40 goats and we'd take the smaller ones out to the newer neighborhoods and have them eat the grass. It was a good way for us kids to get weekend movie money. Made $1.25 per yard yes it was back in the early 1960's. Movie and snacks cost less than a dollar. I used most of mine going into the city at Radioshack on parts.
Always amazed watching goats use mature Oregon blackberry vines (natures razor wire) as dental floss….
Love the video! 😍🥰🐐
Where's the before and after??
The cool thing is that after the goats finish pooping everywhere nobody will even notice because it's San FranShitsCo 🤷♂️
Best video of the day!!
Great video.
This Old House is the GOAT.
Where's the end result?
Grew up on a farm, knew this about goats over 50 years ago! They will keep a fence line clean...
This is such a CA thing
Liberals destroy things …. 😮
Genevieve & friends seems so lovely and positive.
While Richard is in San Francisco, he should go down to the harbor and find some nice tight seals he's always talking about
❤ this🐐🐐
Lovely😀
Goats and sheep are very useful in the same way at solar farms.
A great idea, i wish we had that in England.
ok
Have fun cleaning up all the pebbles poop.
Very Very good for the soil and much like rabbit droppings, small pebbles and not acidic.
Are they where we get the term brush hogs?
Calls this old house...
Plants! They're growing!
We often loan out a couple goats to fellow beekeepers riding their backyards of poison ivy.
Now we're up to three people covering Roger's old job? sheesh
Wild fires or DEW, you decide!
Who gets all the goat manure?
Gavin newsome working hard🤣🤣
Yeah we have to bring politics into every single thing. Well done
@@kent223 well he did cut forestry services to cut back on the wild fires in Cali.
Cool to see Kanye on this old house
Yeah, but all their poo is just gonna make it grow much faster
Not if he stays on a schedule of trimming and pruning. That’s 10 years of not doing much and a one week stay by the goats won’t cause things to grow out of control after they leave. But it also won’t eliminate all the work needed to make the property attractive again.
Because the "canopy" is opened up, more desirable plants will have a change to regrow/get a boost.
Fighting certain undesirables can be an uphill battle and these goats have done a considerable amount to make it easier to deal with.
Himalayan blackberries are a bugger with their hooked thorns, so the goats taking taking them down some will help, but they pop back fast...
@@Navy1977
They'll have to access it in a week and go from there, won't they???
First. Goat grazing.
Hey everyone, Let’s make fun of @markpreston6676. He thinks he’s cool or something because he commented first. Let’s remind him how he is embarrassing himself and he won’t get a trophy to show his parents the only achievement he’s has done in his whole life.
which one is omar's hus-brother?