Soil biome and knowing local flora are just the basics of permaculture. And it’s her livelihood so these are things she needs to know to market the services of her goats. She certainly is charismatic on camera though.
Wow, one of the best documentaries I've had the pleasure of seeing, up to this point i had a very low opinion of goats but after this my opinion has changed. Very well explained in common sense language and delivered by people who know what they are talking about, Above and below the ground. Well done on your excellent documentary.
My township started using goats to maintain steep, hard to reach areas with goats. They string 4 feet high plastic fence around the area they want cleared and dump 40 goats. They always attract a large crowd of spectators, me being one of them. The before/after is startling. Briars, cockle burrs, tangle shoot, Ivey, you name it they will eat through it like a chainsaw through balsa wood. And they’re fun to watch.
I have known Lani for many years. She has an agricultural back ground. She went to Colorado State University and got her masters degree in weed management. She had dedicated her life to this work. She is extremely intelligent in this field
Great video! Lani, your soil knowledge is mighty top shelf, and you explain it in such down-to-earth, easy-to-understand language. The producers and operators in this video were excellent representatives of graziers and stockmen! Thank you, enjoyed this very much :)
Pretty sure ranchers see it everyday when they run their cattle on range land. The cattle do the same thing as the goats when there's grass & cattle fodder for them to eat. I think too many enviros want to pull all animals off the range & let "mother nature" take over. Its a one sided view and it need s to be realized that grazing can be a good thing for the rangelands.
@@calichekid8897 Yes, if properly managed. You can't just release a bunch of cattle onto a range and expect the grass to thrive, or the cattle for that matter. Cows need to be moved in a mob so they can mow. They don't want to eat where they have fertilized the ground, they like fresh grass. Grass doesn't like to be continuously munched on, it needs to have months of rest so by the time they get back to that patch of grass, the plants have grown to their most nutritious stage. Herbivores are used to being close together to avoid being eaten by predators. They tend to go to the high ground where they can see what predators are coming, and while up there, they move nutrients from the low grounds to the high grounds. Nature's way is always the best. Cows weren't meant to sit around and graze on the same pasture for months at a time.
You can pop off the bloom that seed, but that just drives the roots deeper and it's pruned! Which means MORE branching and more seeds on each plant. Notice he goes around to pop off branches, to make it appear the goats ate it all, so that they score more jobs. It also hard on goats with fur coats, to stand for hours in a truck in the heat, they pass infections, bacteria and it's stressful to the goats, the meat if butchered is usually bad and can't be sold then, so carcus's go to landfills when they have still births, or other ailments. Look up the goats and flukes... www.fao.org/3/t0756e/T0756E06.htm
Love watching goats. Lani is a joy to listen to. She's so intelligent and has such an up personality and lovely humor she makes one smile while being educated.
Absolutely. I was just thinking the same thing about them and their healing profession. They really are the salt of the earth and this world needs multitudes more like them.
You are definitely not a person that works with animals, just because something is rewarding doesn't mean it's easy. We have 30 goats and enjoy them, but it's a lot of work. Give it a try and see if you still think it's FREE MONEY
I wish more people knew this. The entire ecosystem needs to be better understood and protected for the benefit of everything. And Lani is right, it’s so fun to watch the goats. I just love them!
It's kinda funny that with all our technology we are now realizing and relearning the old ways are not so bad after all. Great video, thank you for sharing. Kudos.
Well evolution has had tens of thousands of years to find a solution whereas we've been trying to shortcut it within 100 years. And while we're successful in some aspects it just highlights the problems we don't know about.
Pesticides/Herbicides are recent human invention used as a means to quick-fix agricultural problems, but it was a short-term solution that led to long-term problems. Corporations will always try to make their products better than nature's solutions to make money off of people, so expect to see the continous thrive of herbicides/pesticides.
Powerhouse the bible never specifies when the early things happen. The earliest that the bible runs with known events is Moses as it is tied to a kings rule. You also need to look at the oldest know copies as the English Bible is a translation of a translation of a translation of a translation and anyone that deals with translating even English to English knows you can easily lose things in translation if you can not think how the one to write the work you are translating thinks. Goat, cow and sheep herding are all jobs performed by figures in the bible at different times as most of the bible takes place in the arid middle east yet if you look at the garden of Eden that was a very different landscape so you ether have to move far or have a long time between for that to work unless you think god just snaps his fingers to cheat in the game of life.
Not quite, the old ways aren't exactly perfect, and they do indeed lead to overgrazing in some cases. However there are modern techniques of planned grazing that build up the soil like they mention in the video, while being just as productive as grain feeding methods. So it ends up being twice as good.
I found this video after watching about the goat herd escape in San Jose. This was an amazing learning experience for this city slicker. She is an encyclopedia of weeds. I now know what is growing in my back yard. I told my adult children that I want a kid for Father's day.
They picked GREAT people to interview. This is so interesting and informative. I love listening to people who are passionate about what they do. Learned so much, unexpectedly haha
People in Oregon have been renting goats since the 1960's to clean up brush and blackberry vines which have thorns up to an inch long and sharp as a needle. Goats eat them, thorns and all. This is a old use of goats.
I am a new goat owner, and the quote, "if a fence doesn't hold water it doesn't hold a goat" would have been VERY useful to know prior to adopting our 4 goats😂😂😂😂. We never cease to be amazed at the small spaces they can squeeze through! Who knew?!?!
when i was living in emeryville ca, i saw goats transform a wild field, overgrown and not useful to a field of grass with endless possibilities. On my bike rides to work i would stand for 20 minutes or more watching the goats do their job. they were gone 2 days after it started and the overgrowth was gone. just a nice field. this is a great idea for dealing with over growth. johnd
To see and hear someone like Lani Malmberg, so knowledgable and eloquent about earthplant ecology, and at the same time so charming (that smile and laugh) is inspirational. Sadly, feral goats in NZ cause incredible damage to native flora, and authorities have had little option but to manage the problem with repetitive culling. May I add that it was a pleasure (and relief) to hear the dulcet tones of the narrator, not a media-type voice that would shatter glass at 60 paces.
In coastal California, much of the land a mile or so inland is hilly and rocky. Here, goats trucked in to clear a brushy hillside are also valued for their surefootedness.
Wow, I‘ve always liked goats, but now I‘m a total fan! When twenty seven minutes go by in a flash and I don’t want it to end, that’s a truly great documentary in my book. I‘ve come away quite impressed with the impact and work of the goats, the dogs and their keepers. Lani, letting us in on your deep knowledge of the effects of „goating“ and sharing your Humor is spellbinding. Your my new hero! 😉
Wonderful! Thoroughly enjoy the knowledge you are sharing. City of Laguna Beach, CA uses goat herds for managing the hills surrounding and around the city. I love it!
Well they won't mow a lawn, they only eat grass as a last resort. They will however seek out the tastiest of brush and weeds and leave the lawn to the sheep or cattle.
if you want a lawnmower then get a few geese, Unlike sheep they dont overgraze unless absolutly forced to. They're easy to herd and dont challenge fences. We have both geese and goats.
@@charleswhitehead7441 INteresting...Would ducks be about the same, or not? Im considering the same approach. Are goats hard to keep in? Ive heard they are, that's the only thing really holding me back from them. :-)
Be careful. They will eat everything they can get to. Fruits, veggies, berries, ornamentals. Not recommended for 'yard work'. Better keep it on a chain. When I was a kid I saw one eat a tin can. A sibling of mine got a coat a couple of years ago. It ripped their garden and berry patch to shreds and that was just one goat. Needless to say, they sold it.
The educational value of this short video cannot be emphasized to much, this very smart approach to controlling invasive weeds should be adopted and encouraged by State Governments for wider use. Goats are also worth a thousand laughs, they make great family pets if you have room for them.
fasx56 they definitely do not make good pets. They are livestock for meat or milk. Humans mean nothing to livestock. They just care about mating and food.
@@Darksong1212 I agree with you. Male goats all piss on themselves and smell terrible. Not something you want to touch or have touch you. Also they will headbutt the ever living crap out of you or come up from behind you and stick their head between your legs and jam their horns into your crotch. They also jump on your vehicles and everything else and like to chew everything
I do agree. But... it's was so hard to let them go since I didn't have enough to provide for them. You couldn't imagine how many bottles of whiskey I had to get over the sorrow when I decide to let them go.
Awesome show thanks Wyoming! The way this was produced with such amazing narrative and explanation is awesome, ranchers are great when they are good stewards of the land so sure of this.
@@aclark903 Um, what? Seems to me if "God does everything," what does He need creation for? Mother Nature is an allegory for the natural world. Do you think God didn't create it, that it doesn't exist? Try not to take terms like "Mother Nature" so literally. It's a _symbol_ that allows us to understand that the earth is essentially our mother, we are born through natural processes that are provided by the planet we all live on through its soil that grows the plants and animals that feed us. But perhaps it's all in my mind and doesn't actually exist. :)
Now I understand the purpose of goats. They're incredible. I see how a person could be very passionate about these animals. I think I could really enjoy doing that. I love how the dogs have their place in the whole process.
In the 1970's a co-worker bought 20 acres of land in Oregon. It was covered with wild rose bushes and every invasive weed of the period for that area. After figuring out that clearing with equipment wasn't going to fall into the time frame for construction of the home, he contacted a fellow I knew who had goats. 21 days later they were able to walk the entire fence line as well as locate a well and septic system that no one knew about. Goats are also used by the Forest Service in some areas to clean out the under growth for fire control. Goats are very beneficial no matter what others may think. I have seen on a few occasions, goats cattle and horses eating in the same pasture with no adverse affect, the MYTH of goats and sheep not being compatible with cattle was something started by a cattle rancher who decided the sheep or goats were eating what his cattle should be getting, even though the cattle wouldn't eat what the goats and sheep would eat. I guess that MYTH is still present and running rampant, very sad the cattle ranchers haven't figure it out yet.
Ray C. My grand parents were farmers in the late 1800’s. Most cattle of the time would NOT go to water after sheep had used a water hole. If put around sheep forced then they would go to water after sheep.. They figured the sent of sheep was unknown thus a threat. Ps they saw cattle die from lack of water just a short distance from the water avoiding the sheep sent.
Send in the goats to clear the underbrush, the pigs to turn over the soil, plant your crops and let the ducks and chickens keep the pests down (once the plants are big enough so that the chickens don't think you're playing "hide the yummy seed" with them).
I love Wyoming. Living in Utah I used to drive up to WY and ID. Absolutely breathtaking. Love Goats too. Had a few of them growing up on my dads small SC farm.
I love this SO MUCH!! I'm a big fan of Will Harris' mixed species grazing and this ranks right up there. This is an "idea worth spreading" - thank you!
I love this! I was born in Cheyenne, WY and moved to GA when I was 10 years old because my father was from GA. I have Nigerian Dwarf goats now on the 3 acres I live on now in Ravenel, SC. Keep up the GREAT work!
I commented before viewing the entire video. The information you provided is absolutely fascinating to me. I've sold some of my goats to people that use them for the same purpose so I know it is popular even in SC but had no idea how much it helps the ecosystem. I wish I had more 'weeds' for mine. I guess they eat them before I know it. I do feed them hay and grain in the winter mostly but they are so spoiled and won't leave me alone until I feed them a little bit of grain, Goat chow. And they do come running when they see us trim limbs off of trees. I completely relate the to chainsaw story in the video. I laughed out loud. I'm going to show this video to my husband later tonight when he gets home. He will love it too. We moved out here in 2000 and he said he wanted to get a couple goats. I've always loved all kinds of animals but never had a goat. The first time we went to an auction we ended up coming home with 6 pygmy goats. We couldn't get just 2 LOL.... Had a horse (Cricket) too and she loved the goats. She was amazing. I was worried when one of the does had kids. I was scared that the horse may step on them. She never did. She would freeze and not move at all when she knew the babies were under her. My husband even saw her use her head to guide a very young kid back to the shed when it was raining. Our goats don't like rain AT ALL. The mother of the kid was under the shed out of the rain, so Cricket found her baby and made sure it was safe. I wish I had been there to see that. Then over the years we had some goats jump on the back of Cricket from a platform we built for them to play on. She never minded in the least. I no longer have Cricket. Sure wish I did but my husband is elderly and he couldn't work her and ride like he thought he should. She did have 2 foals though. That was an incredible experience for both of us. Anyway, I know I'm rambling but what you are doing is fantastic. Visit my TH-cam page sometime at th-cam.com/users/chassquirrel. I've gone to the birds now with peafowl, pheasants, and chickens and of course the goats.
@@ChasSquirrel that is an interesting rant (from 3 years ago, Goats & weeds in Wyoming). I laughed out loud when he said goats cover a LOT of ground, if he leaves the goats alone for 5 days he'll probably get a call from the Canadian mounties.
@@Darksong1212 I reckon the weed preference in goats varies from breed to breed. I have had Cashmere goats a few years back and they definitely prefer weed (to get high) than grass :D
Lani.....good to see your face! (such a family resemblance, you and Tony!) I know you won't remember me; we met years and years ago, when I was staying with Tony and Andrea in Lander. I've never forgotten you, and your herds! My plan is to finally have a small herd, when I retire, and it's all because of you. Love to you and your brother. Tell him it's Rosebud from NY, and that I finally married "pencil-neck!" (That was his nick name for my guy...I never knew how he came up with that one!) I Miss my Wyoming days....xo
Great video. It just shows how nature is perfect and all animals have purpose on Earth. I think as humans we need to appreciate the beauty of nature and stop destroying it.
In Tryon, NC they had a kudzu control test site where they just fenced it in and put some goats in there. They eradicated it and even got the roots if I remember correctly. They had a bunch of those sites there they tried different chemicals and methods of removing the plants. But the goats seemed to work pretty well. Never seen your channel but im subbed now.
Outstanding knowledgeable group of herders! They are walking encyclopedias on goat herding, soil management and everything in between. Thank you for putting this together. Might be the answer to the chemicals used in this day and age. What a concept. Something that actually helps the earth in a very natural way of stewarding the land! Thank you from the bottom of my heart!
You just can't BLEAT the job goats do when it comes to weeding. :) I've never been so proud to have the goat as my Chinese zodiac symbol. Thanks Wyoming PBS for that Canadian content video.
Lani Malmberg, you are my hero! Your depth of knowledge is inspiringing and you have a happy, liveliness to boot. Thank you for doing what you do and doing it happily so well!
as a fellow goat owner and herder this is a great video with lots of great information, I have used this practice for over 20 years, keep up your great work, and so great to here you talk about the different plants and what they do..
With regards to "judgement day," sheep and goats are used as metaphors in the Bible. The parable is based on the differences in behavior between sheep and goats. 0:05 [Sheep 10]
When I was in the US Navy back in the 1970s goats were natural landscapers at the jet fuel farms Highly flammable fuels, so motorized mowers couldn't be used. The goats were in enclosed fensing, but every so often those ornery things would get out on the air field and the Marines would be sent out to round them back to their pen. Excitement 😊
Amazing. I learned so much from this video. As a gardener caring for two large gardens I found this very knowledgeable information about the weeds and soil cycles.
This was Extraordinary! So much information from knowledgeable people, real people, who know the land, the history, nature's cycles, wow just everything. Absolutely an Incredible Video. TY for making it. 👍👍👍👍👍
Dunno why I am just now being shown this, but thanks Wyoming PBS for uploading this for the general public in the US to enjoy! As a Kansas resident, Its pretty cool seeing what the PBS' of other states produce, content wise.
What beautiful goats! I remember when we were growing up and my lil brother had a goat and he would put his goat in the barn and before he knew it the goat jumped fence after fence and landed up at my neighbor's home. Oh I felt bad for my brother cuz it kept on happening so at the end he had to sell his goat. One is hard to keep! Thanks for sharing!
Adrian Calgary I was just wondering if Alberta Ranchers would go for goats clearing their land? I already have a border collie, just need to convince my husband to buy a goat farm☺
A good example I´ve seen in Portugal more than 20 years ago. In a national park area in the mountains up North. Problems to solve were: Protect the Iberian wolf (close to extinction), a specific breed of native dogs (also getting close to extinction), habitat restoration, recover the soil and wildfire prevention. All that with the least input and as cheaply as possible. For sure not an easy task by any means... Solution: Supply dog/puppies to the farmers with sheep/goats, etc. and raise them with the herds. Farmers don' t loose animals anymore. Because the dogs keep the wolf away. The herds can roam safely in the wild, clearing and cleaning, doing their thing so to speak. No loss of income, farmers still get the milk, cheese, etc. the Iberian wolf got a chance to thrive and the breed of dogs came out of endangered species list... ;-) Just an idea. Cheers PS: It¨s worth mention that was exactly what had been done for centuries. Until we all decided for machines and forgot the old ways. ;-)
@@crpth1 In German such a solution is called: The egg laying wooly dairy pig. (your comment about a National park, and how to square: Iberian wolf, native vanishing dog breed, soil protection, and wildfire protection.
Really enjoyed this informative on goats vs. invasive weeds...I have horses...& a weed problem...maybe need a few goats in there...knowledge is key to progressive, & sustainable agriculture...THANKS TO ALL THAT PUT THIS DOCUMENTARY TOGETHER...MORE PLEASE...MAYBE ONE ON BISON SYMBIOSIS WITH PRAIRIE DOGS, & BLACK FOOTED FERRITS...
I've had goats a little more than 7 years. My highest number was this year at 58. How do you trim their feet. Or is the ground rocky enough for them to self trim. Thanks
My family had a conservation agent out to our property we just bought, and everything he wanted to do for forest management, wildflowers, glade restoration, native grasslands involved heavy roundup use. The government pretty much requires you to use pesticides like roundup (and use it frequently) to be accepted into programs to help cut costs. And because of government aid programs, the price for flower and grass seeds has become overpriced the same way medicine has become due to insurance companies. You have to have the money to do it without government help. I don't think the conservation agent even knew of ways to do it without roundup. Plus, organic farming is allowed far less government monetary aid than using pesticides. I am talking a $200,000+ difference. It's quite substantial for a starting farm when deciding what to do. Additionally, the banks require you do things with their guidelines when you get a loan. You become trapped into doing things the way the government and banks want you to do it. The way roundup was pushed on us just so hard kinda freaked us out, and made us think roundup definitely has too much power and the company totally has links with the government to sell its products. I mean sorry to go on and on, but if we used roundup the native grasses wouldn't grow either, so we would have to have our fields planted with soy beans for years. Then you have to have the native grasses establish before you can graze with any animals. That is like 4-6 years total for a starting farm to begin grazing their land. Just crazy. Anyway. Thanks for reading (anyone?). Hope this brings up more questions than answers for you too.
O Hare airport in Chicago has been using goats and donkeys for brush control for several years now with great success, they've cut down on the costs of machinery and fuel, operator expenses, and have eliminated the use of chemical herbicides that could have a negative effect on the communities bordering the airport.
We have done this for years. My husband's family have raised goats for Year's, and grazed them this way. But like you said it ain't for everybody we operate in central Illinois. And have found that east of Mississippi river and North of mason dixen line there is almost nobody interested in letting goats on there land.
Here in laguna beach we grew up with the goats eating our hillsides almost every year we see them in some part of the town. We have lots of fires around here so they help so much
Excellent. I knew that goats are great to have to eat the weeds in your yard. I have learned so much more valuable information in the video. Really appreciate all the details. Thanks so much!
What a great video. Besides horses, and chickens, I also had goals, for pets, because my wife, liked a goal, better than a dog. We also had dogs. My wife left me, & I am going to ramp back up my operation, and you have shown me, that since I have prior knowledge of goals, I believe that I will have some more. Thank you very much.
Brilliant synergy in action. I myself run goats and sheep in together to control grasses and weeds growth. We also use chickens and ducks to keep parasite problems down.
Yup, that's the way to do it. Use the strengths of various animals (and plants) to work in harmony. I know of a cattle rancher who uses chickens to break up cow manure so it gets into the soil faster and cut down on fly larvae. He has his chickens follow the cows around the pasture a set number of days behind them, and actually throws the chicken feed right on top of the cow patties to encourage them. He gets much better growth with his pasture, and he really cuts down on the flies. He's feeding his chickens for cheaper too. It's maybe a little more work moving the chickens around behind the cows, but he gets a lot of eggs and a much healthier farm. Goats and sheep share a lot of the same parasites, but most animals don't, so if you have cows and goats together on a pasture they'll consume each other's parasites and the parasites won't survive in the other animal's digestive tract. That's a great way to disrupt their life cycles and keep the parasite load to a minimum. I haven't heard of chickens or ducks serving the same purpose but it makes sense.
Wow ! It's persons like these that are needed to educate our children and adults about how to really work in harmony with nature and still produce healthy food and ensure ecofriendly farming.
This is wonderful. It should be shown in every high school and college biology and ecology class in the US. I was brought up on a farm in the Midwest and have a degree is Forestry, so I appreciate the science behind thiss. And goats are funny.
I grew up with goats in our family orange orchards on the hills. We had about 20 goats led by a big mama Swiss goat, she and her daughters were served by the male goats in others herds every year, so as to eliminate inbreeding problems. We sell or butcher the one year old males to make profits. The goats eat all the bad weeds in the orchards, their droppings turned to fertilizer. I started at 5 yr old driving the goat herd to the orchards with my dad, every morning, then drive them back to the barn in the evening. The goats provided milk, cheese, meat and skin. Now a days the goat cheese is so expensive in the stores.
That lady with Green Goat LLC sure knew everything there is to know about plants, soil and remediation! She's a walking encyclopedia!
She knows shit and talks shit. Good things for a farmer.
Soil biome and knowing local flora are just the basics of permaculture. And it’s her livelihood so these are things she needs to know to market the services of her goats. She certainly is charismatic on camera though.
Smart Folks doing the tough jobs the right way. Common sense trumping the big chemical company. You go girl!!!
Lani Malmberg is her name, she’s very knowledgeable.
Wow, one of the best documentaries I've had the pleasure of seeing, up to this point i had a very low opinion of goats but after this my opinion has changed. Very well explained in common sense language and delivered by people who know what they are talking about, Above and below the ground. Well done on your excellent documentary.
My township started using goats to maintain steep, hard to reach areas with goats. They string 4 feet high plastic fence around the area they want cleared and dump 40 goats. They always attract a large crowd of spectators, me being one of them. The before/after is startling. Briars, cockle burrs, tangle shoot, Ivey, you name it they will eat through it like a chainsaw through balsa wood. And they’re fun to watch.
I have known Lani for many years. She has an agricultural back ground. She went to Colorado State University and got her masters degree in weed management. She had dedicated her life to this work. She is extremely intelligent in this field
ah, makes sense.
Great video! Lani, your soil knowledge is mighty top shelf, and you explain it in such down-to-earth, easy-to-understand language. The producers and operators in this video were excellent representatives of graziers and stockmen! Thank you, enjoyed this very much :)
I wish ALL farmers and ranchers could see this. Wonderful work!
I have and it's great and I love my goats. Kids will be here Nov/Dec can't wait.
Pretty sure ranchers see it everyday when they run their cattle on range land. The cattle do the same thing as the goats when there's grass & cattle fodder for them to eat. I think too many enviros want to pull all animals off the range & let "mother nature" take over. Its a one sided view and it need s to be realized that grazing can be a good thing for the rangelands.
@@calichekid8897 Yes, if properly managed. You can't just release a bunch of cattle onto a range and expect the grass to thrive, or the cattle for that matter. Cows need to be moved in a mob so they can mow. They don't want to eat where they have fertilized the ground, they like fresh grass. Grass doesn't like to be continuously munched on, it needs to have months of rest so by the time they get back to that patch of grass, the plants have grown to their most nutritious stage. Herbivores are used to being close together to avoid being eaten by predators. They tend to go to the high ground where they can see what predators are coming, and while up there, they move nutrients from the low grounds to the high grounds. Nature's way is always the best. Cows weren't meant to sit around and graze on the same pasture for months at a time.
Havilahki these are truly conservationist. God gave us the means to take care of our world if we would just use it everyone would be healthier
You can pop off the bloom that seed, but that just drives the roots deeper and it's pruned! Which means MORE branching and more seeds on each plant. Notice he goes around to pop off branches, to make it appear the goats ate it all, so that they score more jobs. It also hard on goats with fur coats, to stand for hours in a truck in the heat, they pass infections, bacteria and it's stressful to the goats, the meat if butchered is usually bad and can't be sold then, so carcus's go to landfills when they have still births, or other ailments. Look up the goats and flukes... www.fao.org/3/t0756e/T0756E06.htm
Love watching goats. Lani is a joy to listen to. She's so intelligent and has such an up personality and lovely humor she makes one smile while being educated.
Lani's laughter just makes me happy! She's the salt of the earth kinda person that will make everything good with her pure heart..
Yes...evil corpotare wants to kill us..by pesticides, Gm ,cola,and drugs side effects....we are just slave of there private money....
Absolutely. I was just thinking the same thing about them and their healing profession. They really are the salt of the earth and this world needs multitudes more like them.
Yes,. Hope meats from these r safe....... Supposed 2b safe
because she is making free money. lucky her!
You are definitely not a person that works with animals, just because something is rewarding doesn't mean it's easy. We have 30 goats and enjoy them, but it's a lot of work. Give it a try and see if you still think it's FREE MONEY
I wish more people knew this. The entire ecosystem needs to be better understood and protected for the benefit of everything. And Lani is right, it’s so fun to watch the goats. I just love them!
This is such a wonderful ecological solution to "weeds"!! I hope it becomes universal, I really do. THANKS!!
I agree, even if it cuts back pesticides by half it will be environmentally sucessful in my book! These are great tools to have.
personally I'm not a fan of all this plant racism one man's weed is another man's flower
That Lady is so smart that it gives me so much joy to listen to her. You are my hero.
It's kinda funny that with all our technology we are now realizing and relearning the old ways are not so bad after all.
Great video, thank you for sharing.
Kudos.
Well evolution has had tens of thousands of years to find a solution whereas we've been trying to shortcut it within 100 years. And while we're successful in some aspects it just highlights the problems we don't know about.
Simple but wise word, straight to the point.
Pesticides/Herbicides are recent human invention used as a means to quick-fix agricultural problems, but it was a short-term solution that led to long-term problems.
Corporations will always try to make their products better than nature's solutions to make money off of people, so expect to see the continous thrive of herbicides/pesticides.
Powerhouse the bible never specifies when the early things happen. The earliest that the bible runs with known events is Moses as it is tied to a kings rule.
You also need to look at the oldest know copies as the English Bible is a translation of a translation of a translation of a translation and anyone that deals with translating even English to English knows you can easily lose things in translation if you can not think how the one to write the work you are translating thinks.
Goat, cow and sheep herding are all jobs performed by figures in the bible at different times as most of the bible takes place in the arid middle east yet if you look at the garden of Eden that was a very different landscape so you ether have to move far or have a long time between for that to work unless you think god just snaps his fingers to cheat in the game of life.
Not quite, the old ways aren't exactly perfect, and they do indeed lead to overgrazing in some cases. However there are modern techniques of planned grazing that build up the soil like they mention in the video, while being just as productive as grain feeding methods. So it ends up being twice as good.
Lani seems like someone I can talk with all days without loosing my interest in the subject
You just can’t beat goats. We need to get more professional goat herds and cut out the chemicals. Goats are just the perfect machine.
Just bought 4 to clean under my 100palm trees.
Left wingers will say Goats fart so it is just as bad. and then blame it on Trump
You better watch out with comments like that Monsanto and the Clintons have a lot in common
@@UPGardenr No, they won't.
@@fznh2o No, they don't.
I found this video after watching about the goat herd escape in San Jose. This was an amazing learning experience for this city slicker. She is an encyclopedia of weeds. I now know what is growing in my back yard. I told my adult children that I want a kid for Father's day.
This Lani Lady is off the chain! I could listen to her ALL DAY!
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They picked GREAT people to interview. This is so interesting and informative. I love listening to people who are passionate about what they do. Learned so much, unexpectedly haha
Lani is the smartest land manager i've ever heard talk about the process
People in Oregon have been renting goats since the 1960's to clean up brush and blackberry vines which have thorns up to an inch long and sharp as a needle. Goats eat them, thorns and all. This is a old use of goats.
I am a new goat owner, and the quote, "if a fence doesn't hold water it doesn't hold a goat" would have been VERY useful to know prior to adopting our 4 goats😂😂😂😂. We never cease to be amazed at the small spaces they can squeeze through! Who knew?!?!
Every time I talk to an old-timer about goats they say, "Don't Do It." hahaha. Stories and stories of them getting out, eating the garden, etc....
@@JRDavis-hj4si That's their food. I buy my goats salads. My food's food is plant based. Lol
when i was living in emeryville ca, i saw goats transform a wild field, overgrown and not useful to a field of grass with endless possibilities. On my bike rides to work i would stand for 20 minutes or more watching the goats do their job. they were gone 2 days after it started and the overgrowth was gone. just a nice field. this is a great idea for dealing with over growth. johnd
Wonderful wake-up call. Thanks for the information and education.
To see and hear someone like Lani Malmberg, so knowledgable and eloquent about earthplant ecology, and at the same time so charming (that smile and laugh) is inspirational. Sadly, feral goats in NZ cause incredible damage to native flora, and authorities have had little option but to manage the problem with repetitive culling. May I add that it was a pleasure (and relief) to hear the dulcet tones of the narrator, not a media-type voice that would shatter glass at 60 paces.
No kidding...this is by far the best and most interesting TH-cam video i've seen so far. Very well made. Thank you for uploading !!
The educational value of this short video cannot be emphasized to much
Why not use goats for fire prevention in the mountains around the Nevada and Calif range.
In coastal California, much of the land a mile or so inland is hilly and rocky. Here, goats trucked in to clear a brushy hillside are also valued for their surefootedness.
Wow, I‘ve always liked goats, but now I‘m a total fan! When twenty seven minutes go by in a flash and I don’t want it to end, that’s a truly great documentary in my book. I‘ve come away quite impressed with the impact and work of the goats, the dogs and their keepers. Lani, letting us in on your deep knowledge of the effects of „goating“ and sharing your Humor is spellbinding. Your my new hero! 😉
I love the lifestyle and wisdom of these herders. They seem like great people to be around and they provide an amazing service.
Wonderful! Thoroughly enjoy the knowledge you are sharing. City of Laguna Beach, CA uses goat herds for managing the hills surrounding and around the city. I love it!
Self-fertilizing lawnmowers....love it
Well they won't mow a lawn, they only eat grass as a last resort. They will however seek out the tastiest of brush and weeds and leave the lawn to the sheep or cattle.
if you want a lawnmower then get a few geese, Unlike sheep they dont overgraze unless absolutly forced to. They're easy to herd and dont challenge fences. We have both geese and goats.
And they multiply ... you'll never see a John Deere do that
@@charleswhitehead7441 INteresting...Would ducks be about the same, or not? Im considering the same approach. Are goats hard to keep in? Ive heard they are, that's the only thing really holding me back from them. :-)
Be careful. They will eat everything they can get to. Fruits, veggies, berries, ornamentals. Not recommended for 'yard work'. Better keep it on a chain. When I was a kid I saw one eat a tin can. A sibling of mine got a coat a couple of years ago. It ripped their garden and berry patch to shreds and that was just one goat. Needless to say, they sold it.
I admire the lady who knows all these things about plants and she doesnt even slaughter them. Good on her!!💗 I wish her much health.
I see them as food
The educational value of this short video cannot be emphasized to much, this very smart approach to controlling invasive weeds should be adopted and encouraged by State Governments for wider use. Goats are also worth a thousand laughs, they make great family pets if you have room for them.
Governments aren’t interested in making things healthier/better. Profit, control, dominance. That’s what they are into
fasx56 they definitely do not make good pets. They are livestock for meat or milk. Humans mean nothing to livestock. They just care about mating and food.
@@Darksong1212 I agree with you. Male goats all piss on themselves and smell terrible. Not something you want to touch or have touch you.
Also they will headbutt the ever living crap out of you or come up from behind you and stick their head between your legs and jam their horns into your crotch.
They also jump on your vehicles and everything else and like to chew everything
I do agree. But... it's was so hard to let them go since I didn't have enough to provide for them. You couldn't imagine how many bottles of whiskey I had to get over the sorrow when I decide to let them go.
Awesome show thanks Wyoming! The way this was produced with such amazing narrative and explanation is awesome, ranchers are great when they are good stewards of the land so sure of this.
This is the best video i have ever seen on the internet.
Goats are great, but God does everything, Mother Nature does nothing because she doesn't exist.
@@aclark903 Um, what? Seems to me if "God does everything," what does He need creation for? Mother Nature is an allegory for the natural world. Do you think God didn't create it, that it doesn't exist? Try not to take terms like "Mother Nature" so literally. It's a _symbol_ that allows us to understand that the earth is essentially our mother, we are born through natural processes that are provided by the planet we all live on through its soil that grows the plants and animals that feed us. But perhaps it's all in my mind and doesn't actually exist. :)
Now I understand the purpose of goats. They're incredible. I see how a person could be very passionate about these animals. I think I could really enjoy doing that. I love how the dogs have their place in the whole process.
In the 1970's a co-worker bought 20 acres of land in Oregon. It was covered with wild rose bushes and every invasive weed of the period for that area. After figuring out that clearing with equipment wasn't going to fall into the time frame for construction of the home, he contacted a fellow I knew who had goats. 21 days later they were able to walk the entire fence line as well as locate a well and septic system that no one knew about. Goats are also used by the Forest Service in some areas to clean out the under growth for fire control. Goats are very beneficial no matter what others may think. I have seen on a few occasions, goats cattle and horses eating in the same pasture with no adverse affect, the MYTH of goats and sheep not being compatible with cattle was something started by a cattle rancher who decided the sheep or goats were eating what his cattle should be getting, even though the cattle wouldn't eat what the goats and sheep would eat. I guess that MYTH is still present and running rampant, very sad the cattle ranchers haven't figure it out yet.
Ray C. I don’t understand...are the cattle ranchers that dumb and stubborn to learn something that’s good for them?
@@wojomojo Stubborn, yes.
Ray C. My grand parents were farmers in the late 1800’s. Most cattle of the time would NOT go to water after sheep had used a water hole. If put around sheep forced then they would go to water after sheep.. They figured the sent of sheep was unknown thus a threat. Ps they saw cattle die from lack of water just a short distance from the water avoiding the sheep sent.
@@gregkelmis2435 --Scent of a goat, wasn't that a movie? lol
Send in the goats to clear the underbrush, the pigs to turn over the soil, plant your crops and let the ducks and chickens keep the pests down (once the plants are big enough so that the chickens don't think you're playing "hide the yummy seed" with them).
I love Wyoming. Living in Utah I used to drive up to WY and ID. Absolutely breathtaking. Love Goats too. Had a few of them growing up on my dads small SC farm.
We sure had no poison ivy around while we had our 4 goats. They loved the stuff.
Horses like it too.
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Yeesh, isn’t that bad for their throats and stuff?
Pretty much everything except humans have no reaction to it.
I love this SO MUCH!! I'm a big fan of Will Harris' mixed species grazing and this ranks right up there. This is an "idea worth spreading" - thank you!
Great documentary, thank you for posting!
C'mon nannie nannies! Amazing understanding of conservation, symbiosis and making a living. Top notch production as well. Great work.
I love this! I was born in Cheyenne, WY and moved to GA when I was 10 years old because my father was from GA. I have Nigerian Dwarf goats now on the 3 acres I live on now in Ravenel, SC. Keep up the GREAT work!
I commented before viewing the entire video. The information you provided is absolutely fascinating to me. I've sold some of my goats to people that use them for the same purpose so I know it is popular even in SC but had no idea how much it helps the ecosystem. I wish I had more 'weeds' for mine. I guess they eat them before I know it. I do feed them hay and grain in the winter mostly but they are so spoiled and won't leave me alone until I feed them a little bit of grain, Goat chow. And they do come running when they see us trim limbs off of trees. I completely relate the to chainsaw story in the video. I laughed out loud. I'm going to show this video to my husband later tonight when he gets home. He will love it too. We moved out here in 2000 and he said he wanted to get a couple goats. I've always loved all kinds of animals but never had a goat. The first time we went to an auction we ended up coming home with 6 pygmy goats. We couldn't get just 2 LOL.... Had a horse (Cricket) too and she loved the goats. She was amazing. I was worried when one of the does had kids. I was scared that the horse may step on them. She never did. She would freeze and not move at all when she knew the babies were under her. My husband even saw her use her head to guide a very young kid back to the shed when it was raining. Our goats don't like rain AT ALL. The mother of the kid was under the shed out of the rain, so Cricket found her baby and made sure it was safe. I wish I had been there to see that. Then over the years we had some goats jump on the back of Cricket from a platform we built for them to play on. She never minded in the least. I no longer have Cricket. Sure wish I did but my husband is elderly and he couldn't work her and ride like he thought he should. She did have 2 foals though. That was an incredible experience for both of us. Anyway, I know I'm rambling but what you are doing is fantastic. Visit my TH-cam page sometime at th-cam.com/users/chassquirrel. I've gone to the birds now with peafowl, pheasants, and chickens and of course the goats.
@@ChasSquirrel that is an interesting rant (from 3 years ago, Goats & weeds in Wyoming). I laughed out loud when he said goats cover a LOT of ground, if he leaves the goats alone for 5 days he'll probably get a call from the Canadian mounties.
This video is beautiful and comforting. Thankyou.
Since goats prefer weeds and brush they make a perfect companion to horse and cattle operations.
Bob Snyder my goats eat mostly grass. They don’t care for weeds. Plus a horned goat is damaging to other livestock.
@@Darksong1212 I reckon the weed preference in goats varies from breed to breed. I have had Cashmere goats a few years back and they definitely prefer weed (to get high) than grass :D
Time well spent, watching this video. Excellent insights on a wide range of goat, dog, flora and fauna. Folk too.
Well done!
Thank you for your fasinating video! This is a forward looking , holistic approach to land management.
Lani.....good to see your face! (such a family resemblance, you and Tony!) I know you won't remember me; we met years and years ago, when I was staying with Tony and Andrea in Lander. I've never forgotten you, and your herds! My plan is to finally have a small herd, when I retire, and it's all because of you. Love to you and your brother. Tell him it's Rosebud from NY, and that I finally married "pencil-neck!" (That was his nick name for my guy...I never knew how he came up with that one!) I Miss my Wyoming days....xo
Great video. It just shows how nature is perfect and all animals have purpose on Earth. I think as humans we need to appreciate the beauty of nature and stop destroying it.
Nature is great because God designed it.
Great insights! Know your land, the weather, your herd leads to good decisions. Congrats on another amazing grazing school!
Awesome! We do this on our farm in North Carolina....and I love Wyoming!!
Stoney Ridge farmer: You are correct, and I enjoy your channel
In Tryon, NC they had a kudzu control test site where they just fenced it in and put some goats in there. They eradicated it and even got the roots if I remember correctly.
They had a bunch of those sites there they tried different chemicals and methods of removing the plants. But the goats seemed to work pretty well.
Never seen your channel but im subbed now.
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I really enjoyed the video. Wish I had a couple of goats to take care of my 1.3 ac yard. I do not mind mowing but hate the weeds.
You are the most responsible and loveable people on earth. thank you very much for what you are doing for our planet.
Outstanding knowledgeable group of herders! They are walking encyclopedias on goat herding, soil management and everything in between. Thank you for putting this together. Might be the answer to the chemicals used in this day and age. What a concept. Something that actually helps the earth in a very natural way of stewarding the land! Thank you from the bottom of my heart!
You just can't BLEAT the job goats do when it comes to weeding. :)
I've never been so proud to have the goat as my Chinese zodiac symbol.
Thanks Wyoming PBS for that Canadian content video.
Excellent show, I love seeing people and furry family members doing great things together
Lani Malmberg, you are my hero! Your depth of knowledge is inspiringing and you have a happy, liveliness to boot. Thank you for doing what you do and doing it happily so well!
as a fellow goat owner and herder this is a great video with lots of great information, I have used this practice for over 20 years, keep up your great work, and so great to here you talk about the different plants and what they do..
Fun job: “open the gate and sign the contracts.” So much knowledge and humor. Love goats! Thank you.
It is easier to keep sheep inside a fence than goats. 0:01
With regards to "judgement day," sheep and goats are used as metaphors in the Bible. The parable is based on the differences in behavior between sheep and goats. 0:05 [Sheep 10]
When I was in the US Navy back in the 1970s goats were natural landscapers at the jet fuel farms
Highly flammable fuels, so motorized mowers couldn't be used. The goats were in enclosed fensing, but every so often those ornery things would get out on the air field and the Marines would be sent out to round them back to their pen. Excitement 😊
Farmers are actually really smart people. I appreciate that.
Great video. Learned so much. Keep up the good work. God bless and protect you.
Very nice documentary...I like that they all seems very professional, they have respect and deeply understanding on the goats work...Respect
These must be the happiest goats 😄
Goats love to roam, and love to browse, so these are certainly very happy goats getting to visit so many nice places with so many nice weeds.
NO! THEY KILL GOATS.
Just came across this awesome video. I could listen to Lani all day and I learned some new things too. Thanks so much for posting......simply amazing.
Amazing. I learned so much from this video. As a gardener caring for two large gardens I found this very knowledgeable information about the weeds and soil cycles.
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what a great video, just jam packed with information about soil and plants, not to mention the goats themselves. Enjoyed the whole film. Thank you.
Awesome video , I love farmer people feeding the community..God bless
I feel like these are the things that should be taught in school. So useful & empowering
Such a beautiful video! It shows natural living, and the incredible intelligence of creation. Down with Monsanto and Bayer, and their poisons.
Amen to that!!!
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Loving this .... from Mumbai, India .... all of them (and in particular Lani ) are so humorous .... fills me with joy and optimism ....
fascinating work. a truly enjoyable watch.
This was Extraordinary! So much information from knowledgeable people, real people, who know the land, the history, nature's cycles, wow just everything. Absolutely an Incredible Video. TY for making it. 👍👍👍👍👍
A fantastic understanding of ecology! I'll be sharing this with family.
Thank you for such an informative program. Greetings from Nigeria. Really enjoyed
Dunno why I am just now being shown this, but thanks Wyoming PBS for uploading this for the general public in the US to enjoy! As a Kansas resident, Its pretty cool seeing what the PBS' of other states produce, content wise.
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Very fascinating video; easy to listen to such knowledgeable and passionate people!!
Very interesting! I learned a great deal. Thank you!
What beautiful goats!
I remember when we were growing up and my lil brother had a goat and he would put his goat in the barn and before he knew it the goat jumped fence after fence and landed up at my neighbor's home. Oh I felt bad for my brother cuz it kept on happening so at the end he had to sell his goat. One is hard to keep! Thanks for sharing!
They have some pilot project in some parks here in Calgary, with goat eating weeds. Such an amazing idea!
Adrian Calgary I was just wondering if Alberta Ranchers would go for goats clearing their land? I already have a border collie, just need to convince my husband to buy a goat farm☺
The easy way is to point out that they can clear weeds in places that are hard to mow.
A good example I´ve seen in Portugal more than 20 years ago. In a national park area in the mountains up North.
Problems to solve were: Protect the Iberian wolf (close to extinction), a specific breed of native dogs (also getting close to extinction), habitat restoration, recover the soil and wildfire prevention. All that with the least input and as cheaply as possible. For sure not an easy task by any means...
Solution: Supply dog/puppies to the farmers with sheep/goats, etc. and raise them with the herds. Farmers don' t loose animals anymore. Because the dogs keep the wolf away. The herds can roam safely in the wild, clearing and cleaning, doing their thing so to speak.
No loss of income, farmers still get the milk, cheese, etc. the Iberian wolf got a chance to thrive and the breed of dogs came out of endangered species list... ;-)
Just an idea.
Cheers
PS: It¨s worth mention that was exactly what had been done for centuries. Until we all decided for machines and forgot the old ways. ;-)
@@crpth1 In German such a solution is called: The egg laying wooly dairy pig. (your comment about a National park, and how to square: Iberian wolf, native vanishing dog breed, soil protection, and wildfire protection.
Really enjoyed this informative on goats vs. invasive weeds...I have horses...& a weed problem...maybe need a few goats in there...knowledge is key to progressive, & sustainable agriculture...THANKS TO ALL THAT PUT THIS DOCUMENTARY TOGETHER...MORE PLEASE...MAYBE ONE ON BISON SYMBIOSIS WITH PRAIRIE DOGS, & BLACK FOOTED FERRITS...
I absolutely loved the concept and how you handle the goats. They are so funny, and the dogs are amazing.
I've had goats a little more than 7 years. My highest number was this year at 58. How do you trim their feet. Or is the ground rocky enough for them to self trim. Thanks
Marvelous informational documentary!!
This was great!! That lady certainly knows her stuff from plants to nutrient uptake etc...
*_This video was a real education, but my question is; why isn't this practice more prevalent?_* 👀
Goats are about the hardest animal to contain. The fencing infrastructure needed to keep them in a paddock is immense. Labour is another concern.
My family had a conservation agent out to our property we just bought, and everything he wanted to do for forest management, wildflowers, glade restoration, native grasslands involved heavy roundup use. The government pretty much requires you to use pesticides like roundup (and use it frequently) to be accepted into programs to help cut costs. And because of government aid programs, the price for flower and grass seeds has become overpriced the same way medicine has become due to insurance companies. You have to have the money to do it without government help. I don't think the conservation agent even knew of ways to do it without roundup. Plus, organic farming is allowed far less government monetary aid than using pesticides. I am talking a $200,000+ difference. It's quite substantial for a starting farm when deciding what to do. Additionally, the banks require you do things with their guidelines when you get a loan. You become trapped into doing things the way the government and banks want you to do it. The way roundup was pushed on us just so hard kinda freaked us out, and made us think roundup definitely has too much power and the company totally has links with the government to sell its products. I mean sorry to go on and on, but if we used roundup the native grasses wouldn't grow either, so we would have to have our fields planted with soy beans for years. Then you have to have the native grasses establish before you can graze with any animals. That is like 4-6 years total for a starting farm to begin grazing their land. Just crazy. Anyway. Thanks for reading (anyone?). Hope this brings up more questions than answers for you too.
O Hare airport in Chicago has been using goats and donkeys for brush control for several years now with great success, they've cut down on the costs of machinery and fuel, operator expenses, and have eliminated the use of chemical herbicides that could have a negative effect on the communities bordering the airport.
@@lizardqueenist I mean it kinda makes me wonder if they want people to have cancer, cuz that's what it does 😬
@@lizardqueenist because Bayer has lobbied and paid contributions to the campaigns of our federally, elected officials.
So interesting...certainly seems the way to go for our planet at this time....very knowledgeable lady and full of common sense...loved that video...
We have done this for years. My husband's family have raised goats for Year's, and grazed them this way. But like you said it ain't for everybody we operate in central Illinois. And have found that east of Mississippi river and North of mason dixen line there is almost nobody interested in letting goats on there land.
Here in laguna beach we grew up with the goats eating our hillsides almost every year we see them in some part of the town. We have lots of fires around here so they help so much
Thank you, I was suffocating with all the other videos. Finally one with a heart-felt message. Leave it to the animals, who would've thunk it?
I love you so much. Thank you for all you and the goats do. Thank you for not killing these angels.
Excellent. I knew that goats are great to have to eat the weeds in your yard. I have learned so much more valuable information in the video. Really appreciate all the details. Thanks so much!
What a great video. Besides horses, and chickens, I also had goals, for pets, because my wife, liked a goal, better than a dog. We also had dogs. My wife left me, & I am going to ramp back up my operation, and you have shown me, that since I have prior knowledge of goals, I believe that I will have some more. Thank you very much.
A man needs goals in life
I LOVE THIS STORY I CAN WORK IN A FARM ALL DAY EVERYDAY
Thank you for no chemicals! Goats make the soil healthy 👏👏👏. Feeling grateful and hopeful 😊 Mother Earth appreciates your help. Great information💚
Brilliant synergy in action. I myself run goats and sheep in together to control grasses and weeds growth. We also use chickens and ducks to keep parasite problems down.
Yup, that's the way to do it. Use the strengths of various animals (and plants) to work in harmony. I know of a cattle rancher who uses chickens to break up cow manure so it gets into the soil faster and cut down on fly larvae. He has his chickens follow the cows around the pasture a set number of days behind them, and actually throws the chicken feed right on top of the cow patties to encourage them. He gets much better growth with his pasture, and he really cuts down on the flies. He's feeding his chickens for cheaper too. It's maybe a little more work moving the chickens around behind the cows, but he gets a lot of eggs and a much healthier farm.
Goats and sheep share a lot of the same parasites, but most animals don't, so if you have cows and goats together on a pasture they'll consume each other's parasites and the parasites won't survive in the other animal's digestive tract. That's a great way to disrupt their life cycles and keep the parasite load to a minimum. I haven't heard of chickens or ducks serving the same purpose but it makes sense.
Andrew Jacoby II i use snakes..they cut down on the rats
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how the duck & chicken keep parasite down ?
@@rextruegood6168 what kind of snakes?
The Catalina Islands off the coast of Southern California have lots of "wild" grazing goats.
This explained so much. Very interesting video, ty for the upload.
Wow ! It's persons like these that are needed to educate our children and adults about how to really work in harmony with nature and still produce healthy food and ensure ecofriendly farming.
This is wonderful. It should be shown in every high school and college biology and ecology class in the US. I was brought up on a farm in the Midwest and have a degree is Forestry, so I appreciate the science behind thiss. And goats are funny.
I grew up with goats in our family orange orchards on the hills. We had about 20 goats led by a big mama Swiss goat, she and her daughters were served by the male goats in others herds every year, so as to eliminate inbreeding problems. We sell or butcher the one year old males to make profits. The goats eat all the bad weeds in the orchards, their droppings turned to fertilizer. I started at 5 yr old driving the goat herd to the orchards with my dad, every morning, then drive them back to the barn in the evening. The goats provided milk, cheese, meat and skin. Now a days the goat cheese is so expensive in the stores.
Excellent video, so informative on these wonderful browsers to clear weeds.... Thank you!
Love this! Thank you for thinking outside the box and keeping it green.
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