Year of the Goat might not be for another 5 years, but the bearded little furballs always have a steady presence in the Bay Area. There's the annual
Goat Festival at the Ferry Building (though that's more a celebration of consuming things made out of goats), there's
Goat Hill Pizza (again, not so much about the animal than about delicious food only sort of connected to goats),
Goat Rock Beach (of Goonies fame!!--lots of big rocks, but no goats), and most importantly....
goat rentals (finally, some goats)!!
And why would you ever want to rent goats...? (hey now, there are children here!) You wouldn't know it from watching them frolicking and eating all day long, but turns out all that frolicking and eating does a doozy on pesky weeds and unsightly overgrown vegetation. You got it--goats are the new "it" item in green technology for land management. No need for invasive machinery, chemical pesticides, waterway pollution, or excessive soil disturbance...just feed some goats!
