She knows shit and talks shit. Good things for a farmer.

Soil biome and knowing local flora are just the basics of permaculture. And it’s her livelihood so these are things she needs to know to market the services of her goats. She certainly is charismatic on camera though.

Smart Folks doing the tough jobs the right way. Common sense trumping the big chemical company. You go girl!!!

Lani Malmberg is her name, she’s very knowledgeable.

Wow, one of the best documentaries I've had the pleasure of seeing, up to this point i had a very low opinion of goats but after this my opinion has changed. Very well explained in common sense language and delivered by people who know what they are talking about, Above and below the ground. Well done on your excellent documentary.

ah, makes sense.

Well evolution has had tens of thousands of years to find a solution whereas we've been trying to shortcut it within 100 years. And while we're successful in some aspects it just highlights the problems we don't know about.

Simple but wise word, straight to the point.

Pesticides/Herbicides are recent human invention used as a means to quick-fix agricultural problems, but it was a short-term solution that led to long-term problems. Corporations will always try to make their products better than nature's solutions to make money off of people, so expect to see the continous thrive of herbicides/pesticides.

Powerhouse the bible never specifies when the early things happen. The earliest that the bible runs with known events is Moses as it is tied to a kings rule. You also need to look at the oldest know copies as the English Bible is a translation of a translation of a translation of a translation and anyone that deals with translating even English to English knows you can easily lose things in translation if you can not think how the one to write the work you are translating thinks. Goat, cow and sheep herding are all jobs performed by figures in the bible at different times as most of the bible takes place in the arid middle east yet if you look at the garden of Eden that was a very different landscape so you ether have to move far or have a long time between for that to work unless you think god just snaps his fingers to cheat in the game of life.

Not quite, the old ways aren't exactly perfect, and they do indeed lead to overgrazing in some cases. However there are modern techniques of planned grazing that build up the soil like they mention in the video, while being just as productive as grain feeding methods. So it ends up being twice as good.

Yes...evil corpotare wants to kill us..by pesticides, Gm ,cola,and drugs side effects....we are just slave of there private money....

Absolutely. I was just thinking the same thing about them and their healing profession. They really are the salt of the earth and this world needs multitudes more like them.

Yes,. Hope meats from these r safe....... Supposed 2b safe

because she is making free money. lucky her!

You are definitely not a person that works with animals, just because something is rewarding doesn't mean it's easy. We have 30 goats and enjoy them, but it's a lot of work. Give it a try and see if you still think it's FREE MONEY

I have and it's great and I love my goats. Kids will be here Nov/Dec can't wait.

Pretty sure ranchers see it everyday when they run their cattle on range land. The cattle do the same thing as the goats when there's grass & cattle fodder for them to eat. I think too many enviros want to pull all animals off the range & let "mother nature" take over. Its a one sided view and it need s to be realized that grazing can be a good thing for the rangelands.

@@calichekid8897 Yes, if properly managed. You can't just release a bunch of cattle onto a range and expect the grass to thrive, or the cattle for that matter. Cows need to be moved in a mob so they can mow. They don't want to eat where they have fertilized the ground, they like fresh grass. Grass doesn't like to be continuously munched on, it needs to have months of rest so by the time they get back to that patch of grass, the plants have grown to their most nutritious stage. Herbivores are used to being close together to avoid being eaten by predators. They tend to go to the high ground where they can see what predators are coming, and while up there, they move nutrients from the low grounds to the high grounds. Nature's way is always the best. Cows weren't meant to sit around and graze on the same pasture for months at a time.

Havilahki these are truly conservationist. God gave us the means to take care of our world if we would just use it everyone would be healthier

You can pop off the bloom that seed, but that just drives the roots deeper and it's pruned! Which means MORE branching and more seeds on each plant. Notice he goes around to pop off branches, to make it appear the goats ate it all, so that they score more jobs. It also hard on goats with fur coats, to stand for hours in a truck in the heat, they pass infections, bacteria and it's stressful to the goats, the meat if butchered is usually bad and can't be sold then, so carcus's go to landfills when they have still births, or other ailments. Look up the goats and flukes... www.fao.org/3/t0756e/T0756E06.htm

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Every time I talk to an old-timer about goats they say, "Don't Do It." hahaha. Stories and stories of them getting out, eating the garden, etc....

@@JRDavis-hj4si That's their food. I buy my goats salads. My food's food is plant based. Lol

I agree, even if it cuts back pesticides by half it will be environmentally sucessful in my book! These are great tools to have.

personally I'm not a fan of all this plant racism one man's weed is another man's flower

Well they won't mow a lawn, they only eat grass as a last resort. They will however seek out the tastiest of brush and weeds and leave the lawn to the sheep or cattle.

if you want a lawnmower then get a few geese, Unlike sheep they dont overgraze unless absolutly forced to. They're easy to herd and dont challenge fences. We have both geese and goats.

And they multiply ... you'll never see a John Deere do that

@@charleswhitehead7441 INteresting...Would ducks be about the same, or not? Im considering the same approach. Are goats hard to keep in? Ive heard they are, that's the only thing really holding me back from them. :-)

Be careful. They will eat everything they can get to. Fruits, veggies, berries, ornamentals. Not recommended for 'yard work'. Better keep it on a chain. When I was a kid I saw one eat a tin can. A sibling of mine got a coat a couple of years ago. It ripped their garden and berry patch to shreds and that was just one goat. Needless to say, they sold it.

I see them as food

Just bought 4 to clean under my 100palm trees.

Left wingers will say Goats fart so it is just as bad. and then blame it on Trump

You better watch out with comments like that Monsanto and the Clintons have a lot in common

@@UPGardenr No, they won't.

@@fznh2o No, they don't.

People in Oregon have been renting goats since the 1960's to clean up brush and blackberry vines which have thorns up to an inch long and sharp as a needle. Goats eat them, thorns and all. This is a old use of goats.

Horses like it too.

Wilfrid G Yeesh, isn’t that bad for their throats and stuff?

Pretty much everything except humans have no reaction to it.

Goats love to roam, and love to browse, so these are certainly very happy goats getting to visit so many nice places with so many nice weeds.

NO! THEY KILL GOATS.

Ray C. I don’t understand...are the cattle ranchers that dumb and stubborn to learn something that’s good for them?

@@wojomojo Stubborn, yes.

Ray C. My grand parents were farmers in the late 1800’s. Most cattle of the time would NOT go to water after sheep had used a water hole. If put around sheep forced then they would go to water after sheep.. They figured the sent of sheep was unknown thus a threat. Ps they saw cattle die from lack of water just a short distance from the water avoiding the sheep sent.

@@gregkelmis2435 --Scent of a goat, wasn't that a movie? lol

Send in the goats to clear the underbrush, the pigs to turn over the soil, plant your crops and let the ducks and chickens keep the pests down (once the plants are big enough so that the chickens don't think you're playing "hide the yummy seed" with them).

Governments aren’t interested in making things healthier/better. Profit, control, dominance. That’s what they are into

fasx56 they definitely do not make good pets. They are livestock for meat or milk. Humans mean nothing to livestock. They just care about mating and food.

@@Darksong1212 I agree with you. Male goats all piss on themselves and smell terrible. Not something you want to touch or have touch you. Also they will headbutt the ever living crap out of you or come up from behind you and stick their head between your legs and jam their horns into your crotch. They also jump on your vehicles and everything else and like to chew everything

I do agree. But... it's was so hard to let them go since I didn't have enough to provide for them. You couldn't imagine how many bottles of whiskey I had to get over the sorrow when I decide to let them go.

Goats are great, but God does everything, Mother Nature does nothing because she doesn't exist.

@@aclark903 Um, what? Seems to me if "God does everything," what does He need creation for? Mother Nature is an allegory for the natural world. Do you think God didn't create it, that it doesn't exist? Try not to take terms like "Mother Nature" so literally. It's a _symbol_ that allows us to understand that the earth is essentially our mother, we are born through natural processes that are provided by the planet we all live on through its soil that grows the plants and animals that feed us. But perhaps it's all in my mind and doesn't actually exist. :)

Bob Snyder my goats eat mostly grass. They don’t care for weeds. Plus a horned goat is damaging to other livestock.

@@Darksong1212 I reckon the weed preference in goats varies from breed to breed. I have had Cashmere goats a few years back and they definitely prefer weed (to get high) than grass :D

Stoney Ridge farmer: You are correct, and I enjoy your channel

In Tryon, NC they had a kudzu control test site where they just fenced it in and put some goats in there. They eradicated it and even got the roots if I remember correctly. They had a bunch of those sites there they tried different chemicals and methods of removing the plants. But the goats seemed to work pretty well. Never seen your channel but im subbed now.

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I really enjoyed the video. Wish I had a couple of goats to take care of my 1.3 ac yard. I do not mind mowing but hate the weeds.

Nature is great because God designed it.

Amen to that!!!

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Goats are about the hardest animal to contain. The fencing infrastructure needed to keep them in a paddock is immense. Labour is another concern.

My family had a conservation agent out to our property we just bought, and everything he wanted to do for forest management, wildflowers, glade restoration, native grasslands involved heavy roundup use. The government pretty much requires you to use pesticides like roundup (and use it frequently) to be accepted into programs to help cut costs. And because of government aid programs, the price for flower and grass seeds has become overpriced the same way medicine has become due to insurance companies. You have to have the money to do it without government help. I don't think the conservation agent even knew of ways to do it without roundup. Plus, organic farming is allowed far less government monetary aid than using pesticides. I am talking a $200,000+ difference. It's quite substantial for a starting farm when deciding what to do. Additionally, the banks require you do things with their guidelines when you get a loan. You become trapped into doing things the way the government and banks want you to do it. The way roundup was pushed on us just so hard kinda freaked us out, and made us think roundup definitely has too much power and the company totally has links with the government to sell its products. I mean sorry to go on and on, but if we used roundup the native grasses wouldn't grow either, so we would have to have our fields planted with soy beans for years. Then you have to have the native grasses establish before you can graze with any animals. That is like 4-6 years total for a starting farm to begin grazing their land. Just crazy. Anyway. Thanks for reading (anyone?). Hope this brings up more questions than answers for you too.

O Hare airport in Chicago has been using goats and donkeys for brush control for several years now with great success, they've cut down on the costs of machinery and fuel, operator expenses, and have eliminated the use of chemical herbicides that could have a negative effect on the communities bordering the airport.

@@lizardqueenist I mean it kinda makes me wonder if they want people to have cancer, cuz that's what it does 😬

@@lizardqueenist because Bayer has lobbied and paid contributions to the campaigns of our federally, elected officials.

I commented before viewing the entire video. The information you provided is absolutely fascinating to me. I've sold some of my goats to people that use them for the same purpose so I know it is popular even in SC but had no idea how much it helps the ecosystem. I wish I had more 'weeds' for mine. I guess they eat them before I know it. I do feed them hay and grain in the winter mostly but they are so spoiled and won't leave me alone until I feed them a little bit of grain, Goat chow. And they do come running when they see us trim limbs off of trees. I completely relate the to chainsaw story in the video. I laughed out loud. I'm going to show this video to my husband later tonight when he gets home. He will love it too. We moved out here in 2000 and he said he wanted to get a couple goats. I've always loved all kinds of animals but never had a goat. The first time we went to an auction we ended up coming home with 6 pygmy goats. We couldn't get just 2 LOL.... Had a horse (Cricket) too and she loved the goats. She was amazing. I was worried when one of the does had kids. I was scared that the horse may step on them. She never did. She would freeze and not move at all when she knew the babies were under her. My husband even saw her use her head to guide a very young kid back to the shed when it was raining. Our goats don't like rain AT ALL. The mother of the kid was under the shed out of the rain, so Cricket found her baby and made sure it was safe. I wish I had been there to see that. Then over the years we had some goats jump on the back of Cricket from a platform we built for them to play on. She never minded in the least. I no longer have Cricket. Sure wish I did but my husband is elderly and he couldn't work her and ride like he thought he should. She did have 2 foals though. That was an incredible experience for both of us. Anyway, I know I'm rambling but what you are doing is fantastic. Visit my KZfaq page sometime at kzfaq.info. I've gone to the birds now with peafowl, pheasants, and chickens and of course the goats.

@@ChasSquirrel that is an interesting rant (from 3 years ago, Goats & weeds in Wyoming). I laughed out loud when he said goats cover a LOT of ground, if he leaves the goats alone for 5 days he'll probably get a call from the Canadian mounties.

Smashing is an Irish wording from the North of England when the Irish ruled us from the Kingdom of York and Dublin comes from S' math sin.

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