Goatscaping in Hickory.

Why grazing fits Hickory properties

Hickory sits where the piedmont starts climbing, and the properties reflect it: wooded slopes, gullies, ravine edges and lots that fall away sharply behind the house. This is the terrain grazing was made for. A goat is comfortable on a grade where a machine can't sit level and a crew can't work safely for long.

Lake Hickory and the river shoreline add the other half of it. Shoreline and buffer vegetation is exactly where property owners are most reluctant to spray, and rightly so. Grazing handles that ground without anything going into the water.

English ivy is a recurring problem across the older neighbourhoods here — it moves out of established landscaping into the wooded edge and starts climbing mature hardwoods. Because ivy is evergreen, it's one of the few jobs we can take through the winter.

What we're usually called for here

• Steep wooded slopes and ravine edges behind houses
• English ivy moving out of landscaping into mature trees
• Shoreline and buffer vegetation around Lake Hickory
• Kudzu on banks and idle ground
• Poison ivy along treelines, trails and fence lines

Getting an estimate

We come out and walk the property with you — the terrain, the access, what's actually growing and how established it is. You get a plan and a price on site, and an honest answer about whether grazing is the right tool for your particular piece of ground. Sometimes it isn't, and we'll say so.

Call (336) 502-4628, or send us the details and we'll get back to you.