The goats of City Grazing are featured on the Exploratorium’s “Science in the City” “In an unlikely corner of industrial southeastern San Francisco, a herd of 60 goats gambol on a 10-acre site ringed by a rail yard and a cement recycling plant. Meet the movers and munchers behind City Grazing, a local “rent-a-goat” service [...]

There’s nothing goats love more than a clean house…Well maybe some dry oak leaves.  Yesterday Carla and I took advantage of the wet weather to do a much needed hose-out of the trailer and lay down fresh wood shavings.  A couple of these pillows would make it nice and cozy too. Next time I’ll try [...]

The goats don’t seem to be enjoying the downpours we’ve been having at the yard lately, but we do what we can to keep them dry!

Date: Thur, February 17, 2011 Time: 1:30 PM Location: City Hall, San Francisco Thanks to the hard work of many people, last month the City officially announced a proposal that, if passed, will update San Francisco’s zoning regulations to explicitly permit gardening in all areas of the city and also officially allow for the sale [...]

These warm days are great for taking the goats out. Today they played King of the Mountain on some rubble. We saw a shiny emerald hummingbird in the fennel stalks and two red-tailed hawks circling the concrete piles and lights. Poppies are popping and the sourgrass flowers add some color to the goats forage as [...]

It’s not always pretty, but some days have big rewards.

About half or more of our clients don’t have fencing around their properties, which makes goat grazing an interesting challenge. I get asked about it all the time, so I thought I’d just share how we deal with these goat containment conundrums with you all. Surveying the Site Our first step with every potential client [...]

The goats and staff at City Grazing hope you are all having a wonderful holiday season! Here’s our very festive pygmy goat, Virgil, trying to pass as a reindeer.

THE GOATS had a job up in twin peaks last week, which meant they got to clear lots of brambly bushes, pompous grass, and wild radishes. the only snafu was getting the truck stuck in the mud at the railyard on the morning we were dropping them off.  to get it out, we tried unhitching [...]

We let the goats roam around the other day. You can see the bay and Mt. Diablo beyond the waddles and horns. The herd was pretty happy to munch on fresh wild radish & little grasses and was curious about foxtails too. Suddenly, a old bearded lady goat led the herd back to the pen, [...]