Four hundred goats descended on the verdant hillsides of Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary in July, cutting the grass as well as the seminary’s costs for landscaping staff.
“We save approximately $5,000 in labor and materials by contracting with Goats-R-Us,” said Robert Dvorak, the seminary’s facilities management director.
The goats, which were stationed for three weeks on the steeper areas of the 120-acre campus in Mill Valley, Calif., have been annual visitors at the Bay Area seminary for the past five years.
They were managed by a Chilean goat herder and two border collies as well as a portable electric fence.
The three different kinds of goats — alpine, angora and pigmy — were supplied with water, a salt lick and all the delectable natural grasses and poison oak they could eat on about 50 acres of the campus. (BP)
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