permaculture

["Treesa Jane Rogerson" <treesa@joimail.com>]

for interesting group doing goat rescue and links to goat info

(and an incredible house for sale where supposedly the Bartlett Pear was
developed)

go to www.goatrescue.org

T


Treesa Rogerson, M.A.

Lands Alive : Ecology By Design

treemail@yahoo.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "MARTHA ANNE BOYD" <boyd@students.wisc.edu>
To: <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 8:15 AM
Subject: [permaculture] Re: more goats in cities


> HI all -
> I went to Beyond Pesticides conference in Austin TX last weekend -
presentation by Lani Malmberg of "Ewe4ic Ecological Services" - she
contracts out her 1000 head of Cashmere goats to eat weeds throughout the
West.  Travels with them, doesn't put them in any kind of barn, doesn't feed
them other than what they graze. They use a flexible mesh electric fence to
protect desired plants and contain the goats (more to keep out dogs).
They've worked in Denver, Boulder, Vail, CO Springs, Jackson Hole, Grand
Teton National Park, and are proposing a big project in Owens Valley CA
(in't that the valley the LA  metropolitan water district destroyed?)
>
> Her goats have pretty much eaten it all - thistles, leafy spurge, reed
canary grass, cholla, bindweed, poison hemlock, salt cedar - in combo with
revegetation projects. She views goats as self-propelled weeder -
fertilizer - irrigation - organic matter recycling machines. Her philosophy
is to improve the competitive advantage of whatever plants a land manager
sets as goals and to resist chasing symptoms.
>
> I didn't know that because of the way goats chew, they crush most seeds -
some skeptics in a community garden tried sprouting goat-doo soil from a
leafy spurge field and found a 0.02% germination rate.
>
> For more info contact Lani at ewe4icbenz@aol.com
> Also www.goatapelli.com
>
> Martha
>
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