{"id":1643,"date":"2009-10-29T07:48:12","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T11:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=1643"},"modified":"2009-10-29T07:48:12","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T11:48:12","slug":"property-overgrown-send-in-the-goats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/10\/29\/property-overgrown-send-in-the-goats\/","title":{"rendered":"Property overgrown? Send in the goats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/10\/28\/goat-rentals-for-cle.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Frauenfelder<\/a> looks at an old-fashioned way to cut back the undergrowth &mdash; rent a flock of goats:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>GOOD reports on the Seattle-based Rent-a-Ruminant organization that hires out goats to people who want to clear brush on their property.<\/p>\n<p><em>[R]ather than spending tons of money and time on diesel-powered machines, filing the proper permits, and administering dangerous herbicides, the Seattle-based Rent-a-Ruminant organization will loan your a team of 100 goats for all your brush-clearing needs &mdash; all at a very modest rates. As Serious Eats explains, the benefits of goats are numerous: they eat just about anything, they can work on uneven ground, you don&#8217;t need permits to use them, and they can clear a quarter-acre in about three days.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Frauenfelder looks at an old-fashioned way to cut back the undergrowth &mdash; rent a flock of goats: GOOD reports on the Seattle-based Rent-a-Ruminant organization that hires out goats to people who want to clear brush on their property. [R]ather than spending tons of money and time on diesel-powered machines, filing the proper permits, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,25,65],"tags":[373],"class_list":["post-1643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-economics","category-environment","tag-lowtech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-qv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1644,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions\/1644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}