Your Pittsburgh movers are willing to bet that one of the things you didn’t expect to run into this summer were goats mowing your neighbor’s lawn.

In a recent measure approved by the Pittsburgh City Council, goats have been hired to clean up the hard-to-reach hillsides in three city parks this summer. A $10,000 grant from the Alleghany County Conservation District will bring Steel City Grazers’ 10 Pittsburgh goats and their guard donkey to Highland Park, Emerald View Park, and West Penn Park.

According to the owner of the Steel City Grazers, Carrie Pavlik, “They particularly like invasives and difficult plants, which is really convenient, like vines and poison ivy and knotweed. The things that are difficult for humans to deal with, goats actually really like.”

Just imagine the excitement upon your kid’s faces once they look outside their windows and see one of the 10 Steel City Grazers happily chomping away; once they meet Angel Face, Wimpy, and Boaz, they will wish that your Pittsburgh movers had made the trek to relocate them to a new home much sooner.

However, there is a bigger goal at hand aside from getting an adorable replacement for your lawn mowing company. Danielle Crumrine, Tree Pittsburgh executive director, shared that, “We’re all striving to restore the forest ecology. Ultimately, that’s our big goal: getting trees to thrive and native plants that should be found on our wooded hillsides – that’s what we’re trying to do.”