Green Goats

Green Goats We have supplied goats and working expertise for the removal of undesirable vegetation in National, State, County and Town Parks since 2007. We love our goats.

Green Goats got it’s start in 2007. We were one of 400 goat owners who received and email from the National Park Service asking for someone to bring goats to Fort Wadsworth in New York City, to have their goats remove poison ivy and thorn bushes that are preventing the park’s staff from removing trees who’s roots were spreading the stones and damaging a Civil War Gun Battery at Fort Wadsworth. The

goats were to stay in place all summer. Of the 400 contacted only 8 responded. Seven said it could not be done but we took it on. The National Park Service has continued to use our “Weapons of grass destruction” as one newspaper called them, every year since then. The Green Goats have devoured problem plants in over 300 town, county, state and National Parks and other public spaces in 6 states ranging from 12 parks in NYC to a problematic hillside in a National Park in Thurmond West Virginia. Six years ago a fire destroyed our barn and all 100 of our goats. Personally our worst day ever, but out of that tragedy we got to see best in people. While the ashes were still hot farmers came to push away and bury the remains of our friends and the 180 foot barn. Friends we knew and even more friends we never knew donated money and labor and rebuilt our barn. Then the biggest surprise as though a bigger surprise was possible, it started virtually raining goats. We started getting dozens of calls that started out “we’ve got a goat or two or five that doesn’t milk anymore or that we have to re-home and we don’t want to send to auction, would you like to have them? All of our now almost 200 goats have retired and now “eat for a living”. We promise the former owner that we will never sell their goat. If a goat gets to old to bring to a project, it can just stay on the farm, out to pasture. It makes what we do in an environmentally friendly way even better. We look forward to working for you in 2022

Annlilita & Larry Cihanek
f: Green Goats Rhinebeck
Green-Goats.com
845 514 0240

08/18/2025
07/22/2025
06/27/2025

The goats are headed back to Riverside Park for the sixth straight summer.

05/30/2025

Our four-legged beautification team is back at work…they’re cute, furry, and eat almost anything!

You may see goats provided by Green Goats of Rhinebeck under Walkway Over the Hudson State Historic Park for the next few weeks helping our friends at the New York State Bridge Authority to clear the land of poison ivy, weeds, and all of the overgrown vegetation.

The public is welcome to watch the goats in action; however as in the past, we advise to caution against getting too close. They love to eat poison ivy and other weeds, so that means the oils from those plants are on their coats and can easily be transferred to people.

(📸: Mark Frank)

When you are happy and you know it!!!Our goat, Cinnamon at work, walkway over the Hudson, Poughkeepsie.
10/01/2024

When you are happy and you know it!!!
Our goat, Cinnamon at work, walkway over the Hudson, Poughkeepsie.

09/28/2024

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