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How do you clear a nine acre property of leaves, weeds, grasses and poison ivy? If you want to get it done fast just hire some four-legged eating machines.
Ron Matz has more on some unusual activity in Druid Hill Park.
They are hungry helpers and they're working in a hidden part of Druid Hill Park. A herd of goats is chowing down on overgrown vegetation and invasive species, clearing the park's Auchentoroly Terrace site.
It's an environmentally friendly way of vegetation control.
"Eco-Goats is kind of an alternative land clearing, environmentally friendly vegetation control. We came in here and we kind of specialize in historic and sensitive sites," said Brian Knox, Eco-Goats.
They can reach six feet off the ground, and the goats seem to love the Baltimore buffet.
"They eat a lot of invasive species. Porcelain berry was a big one here, and they love poison ivy. You name it, they'll eat it," said Knox. "The goats are great on a site like this. They'll eat a wide variety of vegetation, things that other wildlife won't. Deer, for instance, are very picky about what they'll eat. Goats will go through and eat a lot of things that nothing else will."
The goats are eating their way around a stone house built in 1872.
"We are going to restore this section of Druid Hill Park. We are going to rehabilitate this old historic house for community use. We're going to build our new headquarters for the Parks and People Foundation on this site," said Jean Dubose, Director of Development for the Parks & People Foundation. "It's going to take about two years from today until we're in, so this is really the first thing that we're doing. Then we're going to salvage a lot of the historic pieces of the house. We needed the goats to come first, so that we could get to those."
The house will be part of the Mondawmin community.
"And when you pass by here, there won't be a bunch of trees here. It's going to be a beautiful building that we have waited a long time for. The community is going to be able to use it. We're just really happy about it," said Sandra Almond-Cooper, President of Mondawmin Neighborhood Association.
Thirty goats have been on the job for two days, and they are eating machines.
"The goats got here Wednesday and they have been sleeping here in Druid Hill Park. They are almost finished, so in a little over two days they have eaten over half an acre of invasive species," said Dubose.
An anonymous donor has stepped forward to pay for the clearing. The entire restoration project is expected to take about two years.
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