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Are you looking for innovative ways to harness the power of renewable energy while promoting eco-friendly land management practices? Look no further than Solar Grazing with goats and sheep!
At Goat Farm Road LLC, we are proud to introduce the concept of Solar Grazing, combining the benefits of solar energy and sustainable agriculture to revolutionize land use practices. Here's why Solar Grazing is a game-changer:
Land Management
Eco-friendly Land Management: Solar Grazing helps control vegetation growth under solar panels without the need for harmful chemicals or machinery, promoting biodiversity and soil health. Many more wonderful info farther down the page!
LGD'S
Livestock Guardian Dogs... It's hard to not have them. We've got about 10 working for us. They protect and watch over our herds for us. We don't have any issues with two legged, four legged or even winged predators. They work together, like a team, like a family.
Solar Grazing
Solar Grazing
Benefits of solar farms for grazing goat and sheep include::
- Solar grazing contributes dairy, meat, and wool to regional markets.
- Solar grazing reduces or eliminates the need for mowing at solar sites, reducing emissions and costs.
- With solar grazing, the vegetation at solar sites becomes a source of nutrition and a pasture for goat and sheep.
- By partnering with local goat and sheep farmers, solar farms maintain ties to the community and offer diverse land-use opportunities.
How Solar Grazing Works
Solar grazing is the use of livestock to maintain vegetation under solar panels. It is just one practice under the larger umbrella of “agrivoltaics”: combining agricultural and renewable energy production on the same piece of land. Other agrivoltaic practices include producing hay, vegetables, berries, and honey at solar sites.
With solar grazing, the vegetation at solar sites becomes a source of nutrition and a pasture for goats and sheep. Solar grazing reduces or eliminates the need for mowing at solar sites, reducing emissions and costs. By partnering with local goat and sheep farmers like us, solar farms maintain ties to the community and offer diverse land-use opportunities.
Why Goats & Sheep?
Do you look out over your property knowing how much work there is to do? Do you get overwhelmed because of your busy family life? Have you tried clearing out the poison ivy yourself only to end up on steroids because you are highly allergic to it? Rent goats and sheep to clear your land and you don’t need to dispose of the debris. You also get the job done without noisy machinery. Invasive species control using goats and sheep is the way to go for most jobs.
You’ve heard that goats and sheep are used for clearing woods but you’re wondering will it work for you? Let me explain the process. We set the goats up with temporary electric fencing in the area that needs to be cleared and in a few days it's INSTANTANEOUS! The goats and sheep have devoured all the unwanted vegetation and all you had to do was sit back in your lawn chair and enjoy them.
Take back your property. Hiring goats and sheep for your land clearing are good for your health, they are sustainable, environmentally friendly, fun, and create community, but most of all it is earth friendly. No need for spraying herbicides.
As a result, you can get outside and work side by side with your spouse on your property getting natural exercise and enjoying the beauty of your flower garden. Rather than, being afraid of developing that dreaded RASH.
Look at it this way, hiring goats for invasive species control creates an environment for your trees to grow more leaves and a deeper root system. More leaves on your trees mean more space to relax in your yard!
So Easy To Get Started!
In many cases, you'll find that renting a herd of goats for grazing to clear your land will cost less than other traditional methods. this is especially the case in areas where people and machines cannot go safely.
Spraying Isn't Cool - Mary Bowen, Environmentalist
Above all, rent goats/sheep and save the environment from the at-will use of herbicides. We all want to be responsible for our environment, especially from at-will use of herbicides. In conclusion, goats/sheep browse/graze in places that you can't use mowers and humans don't want to go, in fact, sheep/goats eat a wide rang of invasive species. Such as Poison Oak, Poison Ivy, Poison Sumac, Kudzu, Oriental Bittersweet, Multiflora Rose, Japanese Honeysuckle, Wisteria, Knotweed, Phragmites, and much much more.
Your next option could be harsh herbicides. Let's face it, even used by a licensed applicator you are still harming the environment for generations to come. Do you want that? I certainly don't. "Spraying is not cool." The dangers herbicides are: in lab tests, glyphosate and herbicides containing glyphosate caused genetic damage to human and animal cells
Rent A Goat/Sheep Facts:
- Hiring goats/sheep for grazing is not a lawn service
- Goats/sheep love broad-leafed material, which means brush and invading field vegetation.
- Browsing goats/sheep are very effective at eating the kinds of excessive weeds and brush that pose a risk of unwanted fires.
- Goats/sheep are not only able to clear the land of weeds but also repair it by tilling the soil with their hooves and adding fertilizer the good old fashion way.
- Perfect for Government agencies versus using herbicides that your community doesn't want.
- Often, a one-time application of the goats/sheep serves primarily to clean out a certain area for the immediate future, thus making it easier to maintain from then on.
- Repeated applications of goats/sheep are shorter in duration and lead to total and permanent eradication of invasive and undesirable species of vegetation typically in 3-4 visits.
Rates Are Determined By The Size Of The Area To Be Munched And The Density
Rates are determined by the size of the area to be munched and the density of the vegetation/distance from the farm/how much clearing has to be done to put up the temporary electric fencing for the goats.
Size x density + herd size = # of days to complete
No two jobs are the same. Prices range from $50,000-$250,000.
“Save the environment, Save the pollinators, rent goats for grazing invasive species is our motto”.
Goats favorite things to eat are Poison Ivy, Kudzu, Phragmites, Knotweed, Wisteria, Oriental Bittersweet, Multiflora Rose, Japanese Honeysuckle, Reed Grass.
But you say, “I’ll just hire machinery that’s easy to do?”
Goats browse in places that machinery can’t reach and humans don’t want to go (remember, goats eat poison ivy). For instance, slopes, wetlands, critical areas, and rough terrain. You don’t need a permit to use goats in the critical area. We do projects from 100 aces to 1,000 acres.
CALL NOW FOR A FREE GOATSTIMATE 256-590-5630!
We evaluate your needs, answer your questions, and determine if goats would be a good choice.
Hiring goats will not give you that fresh cut grass looks when they are done. It will look like the unwanted vegetation has been munched on, not cut with a mower. If you desire that totally finished look, we can provide you with assistance once the goats are done.
The goats must be kept in fencing for their safety, they cannot be tied to a post or blocks. We provide the temporary electric fencing, shelter, water trough, and manpower; all you provide is the unwanted vegetation – we do the rest.
Are you a Government agency looking for fire breaks and reducing vegetation for fire fuels? We can help.
Call Abby 256-590-5630 for your Goatstimate. Goat Farm Road Goats for rent in GA.