Smart Start Seminar

My friend asked me the other day, "What is your sister doing these days?" and I replied, "She is a nomadic goat herder!" When my friend got done laughing out loud she realized that I was seriously answering her question. Yes, my sister, Shod, is a nomadic goat hearder and here's something even more crazy. We are launching seminars where YOU can learn how to be one too! Check it out here http://www.joyfulpromotions.com

OK. OK. You don't have to take your herd on the road but you can accomplish an aweful lot using goats to clean up blighted areas and noxious weeds on your acreages.
My sister has been doing just that for the past five and a half years. She has targeted buck brush in the sandhills and leafy spurge along Nebraska's waterways. Goats have a voracious appetite and they prefer weeds and other vegetation over grass. Their jaws are shaped so that their teeth grind weed seeds to a pulp which kills next years comeback infestation and they attack brush and trees that grow wildly in your pastures. You can think of them as a "green" answer to chemical weed killers. As an added bonus, they fertilize where they work! Poop, you can't beat a deal like that!

The seminar idea was actually a by product of a coaching session. We were brainstorming ways to increase her effectiveness. Seminars seemed to be the best way to share her knowledge and the many lessons she has learned about goat herd management in the past five years. Only we didn't want it to be a boring, sit-in-a- classroom-and-watch-power-point-slides-about-goats kind of a learning experience. We decided it best to go "hands on"

We will take her goats on the road and each participant will get to: build electric, woven-wire fence, hook up and test the solar fencer, command the dogs to herd, choose which site would be best for the next paddock, plan a water source, identify which weeds to target, help decide on how much time the small herd should be left in each paddock but most improtantly enjoy watching and being with some of the coolest animals on the planet! (Not to mention learning all about herd management from a for real nomadic goat herder!)

I want to put a sign on the side of the trailer that reads,"Have Goats, Will Travel" We will be starting out near Hastings, NE on June 17 and 18 and moving on to the Scottsbluff area the following weekend (25th). We are serious about sharing and would welcome interested land owners to consider hosting a seminar on their land.

You can contact either myself via email Denise@happygoatsgrazing.com or Michelle@happygoatsgrazing.com. I check my email more often since I have the desk job! It's hard to get good internet service in the middle of a pasture.:-)
Come, learn and have some fun. You will find that 'goat camp' as we call it is a relaxing, fun way to enjoy nature and fresh air and neat animals. Heck, we can even set you up with your own goat starter kit if you like it as much as we do. We are your full service, go to goat place. You can tell by the name: Happy Goats Grazing, LLC.