Meet New York’s Newest Groundskeeping Crew
“New York’s newest landscaping crew are certainly unusual hires. They are charged with weeding Brooklyn, New York’s last remaining greenspace. They walk on 4 legs. They eat everything. And they are covered in fur. Yep, they’re goats.
The Prospect Park Alliance hired 8 goats to help weed Prospect Park in Brooklyn. The goats—Zoya, Olivia, Max, Charlie Brown, Diego, Raptor, Skittles & Reese—will work through the summer to clean up the park that has been rattled by a tornado & hurricanes Irene & Katrina, according to the New York Times. The job is expected to be completed by September.
Zoya & crew will leave their home in Rhinebeck, New York, & take up residency in Prospect Park, working on fenced-off sections that need the most help. Larry & Ann Cihanek, the goats’ owners... will check on the herd twice a week. Ann told The Guardian that goats love weeds such as poison ivy & will eat those plants first.
‘They’re a bit like children,’ Larry told the New York Times. ‘They will eat their favorite foods first, & one of their top foods is poison ivy. They love it.’ A single goat can eat up to 25 pounds in one day...
The goats began work last week.”
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