Let's Goat Buffalo, a company that provides "goatscaping" services to customers wanting a more natural solution to overgrown greenery, brought its goats to the Richardson Olmsted Campus. Originally built as the Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane in the 19th century, the site once featured a 100-acre farm where patients could choose to work and harvest food for the asylum. The return of goats to the property was the first time in nearly 100 years that livestock were working on-site.
Goatscaping at the Richardson Olmsted Campus
If they can reach it, theyu2019ll try to eat it. After cleaning out a corner of the invasive weed, a goat searches for higher ground foliage on the exterior wall of a building.
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Goatscaping at the Richardson Olmsted Campus
The goats made quick work out of eliminating the invasive shrubs in a corner of the complex. Here, Corey Fabian-Barrett, programs and communications manager, watches the goats settle into their new work spot.
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Goatscaping at the Richardson Olmsted Campus
Corey Fabian-Barrett and Christine Krolewicz, manager of planning and operations, examine a large bunch of knotweed that will be demolished by the goats.
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Goatscaping at the Richardson Olmsted Campus
The goats made quick work out of eliminating the invasive shrubs in a corner of the complex.
By Robert Kirkham/Buffalo News
Goatscaping at the Richardson Olmsted Campus
What was left after the goats came through.
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Goatscaping at the Richardson Olmsted Campus
The face of an invasive weed-eating machine.
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Goatscaping at the Richardson Olmsted Campus
Corey Fabian-Barrett shows off a tarp full of stalks left behind by the goats, ready to remove.
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Goatscaping at the Richardson Olmsted Campus
The face of an invasive weed-eating machine.
By Robert Kirkham/Buffalo News
Goatscaping at the Richardson Olmsted Campus
A couple of the goats take a break at the Richardson Olmsted Campus.
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