Californians can no longer purchase new gas-powered lawn equipment. “Using herbivores — specifically ruminants — for targeted grazing is especially beneficial for Golden State residents looking to enhance their landscape’s wildfire resilience,” is advised by Lawn Love. “Retire your lawn mower for a lamb mower,” they write.
It ranks California in First Place for being the Best State for Animal Lawn Mowing.
Benefits of hiring ruminants to mow your lawn? First, you need to have space to keep the animals. time and desire to keep them fed and happy.
A UC Davis study showed students were happier and less stressed when the UC Davis Sheepmowers were out grazing on campus lawns. Think about how much fun it is to sit back and watch the sheep do their thing.
Natural fertilizer. No need to add synthetic fertilizer when you’ve got natural, organic fertilizer straight from the grazers.
Labor reduction. Who wouldn’t want to give up their (gas-guzzling) lawnmower and sit back with a cold drink while ruminants do the work for you? You won’t get perfectly straight edges. The animals will eat along the fence line, but the result will not be quite as tidy as with a lawnmower.
It takes longer for ruminants to mow your lawn than a lawnmower, so,
What — if any — are the main differences between hiring a crew of goats or sheep?
Sheep will graze your grass. They tend to keep their heads down when they graze and “cut” the grass blades down. In fact, before the lawn mower was invented, sheep and scythe were the main tools for keeping yards tidy.
Goats are browsers. They enjoy roughage. Goats like to eat at chin level and will strip shrubs and trees of leaves and twigs before they turn to the grass. Goats are great for clearing large areas of vegetation.
Californians can no longer purchase new gas-powered lawn equipment. “Using herbivores — specifically ruminants — for targeted grazing is especially beneficial for Golden State residents looking to enhance their landscape’s wildfire resilience,” is advised by Lawn Love. “Retire your lawn mower for a lamb mower,” they write.
It ranks California in First Place for being the Best State for Animal Lawn Mowing.
Benefits of hiring ruminants to mow your lawn? First, you need to have space to keep the animals. time and desire to keep them fed and happy.
A UC Davis study showed students were happier and less stressed when the UC Davis Sheepmowers were out grazing on campus lawns. Think about how much fun it is to sit back and watch the sheep do their thing.
Natural fertilizer. No need to add synthetic fertilizer when you’ve got natural, organic fertilizer straight from the grazers.
Labor reduction. Who wouldn’t want to give up their (gas-guzzling) lawnmower and sit back with a cold drink while ruminants do the work for you? You won’t get perfectly straight edges. The animals will eat along the fence line, but the result will not be quite as tidy as with a lawnmower.
It takes longer for ruminants to mow your lawn than a lawnmower, so,
What — if any — are the main differences between hiring a crew of goats or sheep?
Sheep will graze your grass. They tend to keep their heads down when they graze and “cut” the grass blades down. In fact, before the lawn mower was invented, sheep and scythe were the main tools for keeping yards tidy.
Goats are browsers. They enjoy roughage. Goats like to eat at chin level and will strip shrubs and trees of leaves and twigs before they turn to the grass. Goats are great for clearing large areas of vegetation.
