Last Saturday morning Jon and I paid a visit to our friends, Peter and Chloe. On the way there, we picked up a few pastries from Bakery Nouveau (a completely addictive French bakery located just a few blocks from our house), and I brought my camera to document Peter and Chloe’s highly effective and unusual organic weed control: goats!

Like so many gardeners in Seattle (including myself), Peter and Chloe found ivy, Himalayan blackberries, and bindweed creeping over the fence and into their yard. Rather than spend tons of time digging up the beastly plants, or using chemicals, they rented four absolutely adorable goats from the Goat Lady!

For just $25 per goat, Jill (the Goat Lady) dropped the goats off in their backyard for a week. All Peter and Chloe had to do was move the goats around the yard (they are tether-trained) and check on them a few times a day. The goats ate weeds to their hearts’ content, and they also left tons of free fertilizer in their wake!

I particularly liked two of the goats, Sunny, who loved being petted, and Twitch, a small goat with a very sweet face. 

Sunny is a real lover…her heart shaped spot proves it!

Don’t you just want to hug Twitch?