the goats ate back the green stuff, including poison ivy

Goats have become eco-lawnmowers. They even eat weed seeds so the weeds don't return.

There are even rent-a-goat services. No noisy lawnmowers. No herbicides. No energy consumption, human or otherwise.

Suburbanites everywhere are going whole-hog on goats.

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