I love this hack. My mom had a small herd of pygmie goats for her Montessori preschool. Some guy she knew convinced her to rent them out for this kind of job.

I love this hack. My mom had a small herd of pygmie goats for her Montessori preschool. Some guy she knew convinced her to rent them out for this kind of job. It wasn't the money that convinced her (don't think those little guys were the best earners) but the idea that "we could send in dudes with poison sprayers and loud gas power mowers, or we could just send Billy and his friends in to quietly munch on it for a few hours/days". So many more eco points for doing it with the goats. Plus goats are intelligent and an interesting population to have suddenly show up and take over a spot. If there were any kids at the cleanup spot, interacting with the goats was good for the kids. While being chauffeured to various feasts kept the goats in high spirits. Even the obvious down side isn't that bad -- goat shit comes out in these clean little dry pellets; much better than dog shit or cow shit or bird shit or a San Francisco sidewalk.