In mid-August, herds of goats once again appeared along the Rio Grande Trail between Catherine Store and Carbondale. The popular weed-mitigation program is now in its ninth year. Using the goats for corridor flora management helps the Roaring Fork Transportation Authority (RFTA) minimize pesticide use and build soil health. This year, RFTA started a contract […]
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Works in Progress – Aug. 28, 2025
‘Goats on the Go’Photos & text by Jane BachrachCarbondale If you haven’t seen the 275 environmentally-friendly weed eaters stationed along County Road 100 (Catherine Store Road) outside of Carbondale, they’ll be here for about three more weeks, that is unless it snows. Snow is baaaad for goats so they may have to leave early. Chances […]
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Vacuum cleaners for the land
Country Road 112 may have seen its most heavily-trafficked day yet. However, the traffic did not come from cars, but from goats. On a recent dewey fall morning, Lani Malmberg and her son, Donny Benz, co-owners of Goat Green LLC, ran 800 goats down the road to load them into trailers that were too big […]