Ground Control Goats

Glam Rock/Space Themed Goat Art, Goetry & Goatoshoots

Port Townsend, WA

We are currently paused on our grazing operations, but our goat art is groing strong, please reach out with artistic inquiries.

  • General Brush Clearing

    Our goats will munch your thorny thickets and overgrown understory. They shine on blackberry and young thistles, but will also help mow almost anything, fertilizing your soils as they eat and poop. They have also demolished creeping English ivy, salal swaths, and some young saplings (they can girdle smaller trees fairly easily; we try to avoid tree death by fencing around native/wanted species). Importantly they also provide cute and sly cheer with their friendly antics and silly attitudes.

  • Landscape Transformation

    Transform your invasive vegetation patch to native species area or food forest. We are in the beginning stages of working with local nursery partners to plant an over-story after the goats clear. Scheduled goat mowing maintenance can be planned yearly until the over-story shades out the invasive species. This is a dream we are continually working towards. The best example of this partnering can be viewed on a hillside at the Community Boat School.

How We Operate:

  • Jobs vary by terrain and vegetation. We provide a free consultation, including a site visit to ensure goat-feasibility and an accurate quote.

    To begin, contact us through the form at the bottom of this page. We’ll then coordinate a time to visit and inspect the area you want cleared.

  • Our daily minimum cost is $150 for a full or partial day. We come in the morning, brush cut to set up fencing, release the goats, and then return in the evening to take down all the fencing and load up the goats again, except for multi-day jobs.

    There are three main factors that we use to estimate jobs longer than a single day:

    • $2.50 per goat, daily

    • $30 hourly, human labor

    • estimate for how fast the goats will eat through the particular type and amount of vegetation.

    This final factor is the most complex, given job uniqueness and seasonal factors affecting the vegetation.

    We hope to complete work within the scope of the initial quote, and check in throughout the job to make sure the goats can stay on their eating schedule.

  • With multiple day jobs the goats require there to be a relatively flat space to park their spaceship (12 ft trailer). We almost exclusively shut the goats up each night so that they are safe from predators.

How much will the goats eat?

Our herd will mow a 400-sq-ft paddock of 3-ft tall blackberry in several days

(see photos below).

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Questions?

groundcontrolgoats@gmail.com

206-861-6008