{"id":12357,"date":"2014-07-25T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T12:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/?p=12357"},"modified":"2014-07-28T15:01:31","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T19:01:31","slug":"boston-mayor-turns-goatscaping-clean-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/boston-mayor-turns-goatscaping-clean-parks\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Mayor Turns to &#8220;Goatscaping&#8221; to Clean Up Parks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not only do goats make fresh, creamy milk for cheese production, but they&#8217;re also efficient at cleaning up parks and forests, as Boston&#8217;s mayor Marty Walsh has discovered. For the first time in the city&#8217;s history, volunteers and park employees are letting animals do their dirty work by hiring a team of &#8220;goatscapers&#8221; to clear the area of invasive plants, like poison ivy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Boston Parks and Recreation will pay for 4 goats from the Goatscaping Company, based in Plymouth, to spend 8 weeks munching on the underbrush in a section of Hyde Park &#8212; just a few miles away from<i>&nbsp;<\/i>the&nbsp;<strong>culture<\/strong>&nbsp;office, for those who don&#8217;t know.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/metro\/regionals\/south\/2013\/10\/19\/rent-goat-business-gains-fans-clients-south-suburbs\/F5nKvbT9YwQYNGgFjMWseK\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Four or five goats, contained by an electric fence, can clear up to an acre of brush about 6 feet high in approximately a week.<\/a> And since goats will&nbsp;climb just about anywhere, they&#8217;ll reach high or rocky crevices&nbsp;that lawnmowers can&#8217;t.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/goatscaping\" target=\"_blank\">The Goatscaping Company<\/a> keeps their goats on a farm in Plympton and rents out the animals as an alternative to using pesticides and heavy machinery as a way to landscape. While the &#8220;goatscaping&#8221; occurs, a &#8220;Green Team&#8221; of students will feed and care for the goats. The company has also booked various larger jobs across the state of Massachusetts, including a golf course and a state hospital, along with numerous private homeowners.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonmagazine.com\/news\/blog\/2014\/07\/22\/goatscaping-boston\/\" target=\"_blank\">Elaine Philbrick, co-founder of the Goatscaping Company, says that goats love anything in a New England forest.<\/a>\u201cAbout the only thing they don\u2019t eat are some of the ferns. They eat poison ivy, poison oak, and poison sumac, so it allows people to access the parks.&nbsp;Right now [that area] is&nbsp;just completely a jungle. So the goats will hopefully create a beautiful innocuous green space&nbsp;for people to enjoy.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;Photo Credit: Barry Chin via Boston Globe&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Parks and Recreation will pay for 4 goats to spend 8 weeks munching on the underbrush in Hyde Park &#8212; just a few miles away from our office<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":12371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"coauthors":[610],"class_list":["post-12357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cheese-bites"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.4 (Yoast SEO v24.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Boston Mayor Turns to &quot;Goatscaping&quot; 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