Our History
Goats To Go, located at Great Rock Farm in Georgetown, MA, is a family-owned and -operated service that supports weed and brush removal projects, as well as events such as Talks & Workshops, Goat Hikes, and Goat Yoga & Snuggle classes with our baby fainting goats. Our Goats love a good challenge when it comes to weeds and poison ivy projects. They help you to effectively clean up your land in the suburbs, backyards, and even parks and conservation lands to make them more enjoyable and usable. To give you the best results, we do our projects during the growing season, from mid-May to Labor Day and custom quote each job to ensure we bring the best equipment and best combination and number of goats to get the job done. Some lands are not easily accessible with large equipment and chemical/herbicide use is costly and proven to be less effective or inefficient in maintaining areas for multi-use purposes, due to continuous human recreational use and presence. Goats (brush-eaters, aka browsers) and sheep (grass-eaters, aka grazers) love to eat weeds and brush and are great at getting at all those hard to reach areas. Become a success story, use goats and sheep to effectively manage your challenging areas.
Notable weed control and poison ivy and brush removal projects include:
- National Park Service in Lowell MA, banks of the Merrimack River.
- UMass Lowell in Lowell, MA
- Rye, New Hampshire School District
- 1‐acre Springhill Solar Farm, Bradford, MA
- 6+ acres at Covanta Energy, Resource Recovery Facility Haverhill, MA
- 2 acres for Ipswich, MA Power Plant
- Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) Charles River Boston, MA,
- Historic West Parish Cemetery in an effort to uncover hidden and unknown gravestones in Andover, MA
- 2 acres at Parks & Rec Dog Park Danvers, MA to allow for the development of a new multi-use park.
- Endangered Blanding’s Turtle Habitat Georgetown, MA
Our History: A Bite-size Amount:
- Goats To Go operations for brush/weed control began in ~2012, based out of Georgetown, Massachusetts (30 mins north of Boston).
- Goat Yoga and Snuggle with our baby goats (aka “kids”) began in June 2017
- Supplemented by over 40 years of farming experience in New England and Central Florida beginning projects.
- Today actively support operations for large‐scale grazing, and vegetation control and removal for small‐ and large‐scale projects for the past five years.
- Projects include private, local governments, and other government projects for vegetation control and removal of brush and ivy.
- Own 100+ sheep, 130+ goats, 3 Great Pyrenees guardian dogs, a llama, and 2 Austrian Shepherd herding dogs.
- Management of over 150 acres of farmland in Georgetown area using sheep, goats, llama, guardian dogs, horses, and cattle.
For more information. See our Services page for more details on our location, services, and cost/quotes and see our Events page for more information on talks & Workshops, Goat Yoga events and schedules.
About Our Events
Our classes are held on our beautiful 50+ acre farm, Great Rock Farm, in Georgetown, MA. We want you to get the full effect of a true farm-yard goat yoga and mingle experience by partaking in these events with farm animal sounds and smells all around you. Plus the kids are most comfortable when they invite you into their own surrounds. The majority of the classes are held overlooking the water on a stunning grassed area with a white picket fence and flowers. And our rain location is just as remarkable: a rustic and clean 5-story post and beam barn with hardwood floors. We also host special events for more fun times with the goats.
GOAT YOGA: Practice yoga accompanied by our baby fainting goat kids. The yoga class is sequenced for all levels and focuses on deepening your human connection to nature in a gorgeous setting with some spectacularly fluffy and sweet assistants. Appropriate for ages 12+ yrs old, (ages 5-11 with adult but must have own tickets), these sessions are 45-minutes, unless otherwise noted, and include 40-mins of gentle yoga while the goats interact with you and 5-mins to hold, pat, snap pictures, and feed goat treats. We host classes from June to October.
GOAT MINGLE: Not into yoga but still want to come visit, interact, and learn about the baby goats? We will continue to offer our popular event called “Seated Goat Mingle.” It’s a 40-minute session, for those over 10+ yrs of age (ages 3-9 with adult but must have own ticket), that includes seated mat time to pet and mingle with our baby fainting goat “kids” while you feed goat treats, ask questions, and learn more about the goats care, health, and life on the farm. Please be advised that our Goat Kids will still be jumping on YOU and they do have little horns to watch out for! We host classes from June to October.
GOATS & MUSIC EXTRAVAGANZA: Join us at least once a month for a special Goat event at the farm! This extravaganza is a includes 45-mins of Goat Mingle while you enjoy listening to live music on the farm. You can Add-on 40-mins of Goat Yoga with a certified yoga instructor following the goat mingle & live music. This is intended to be a relaxing 40-mins of relaxation on the Farm with Live Music. We will have tastings, ice pops, hoodsies cups available as well. These events are hosted monthly from June to September.
GOAT HIKE: Join us for an hour stroll in the woods, while we hike with goats on the farm. These events will include a meet & greet with the other goats, Dolly Llama, Dorset sheep, and other animals that may be on the farm. Some events will have a theme. We will provide goat treats to each participant (Ages 5+, 5-11 yrs old with adult supervision) and teach you more about goats and life on the farm. The walk will be a little over a mile round-trip on gravel (or snowy) and hilly terrain. We’ll be going at “goat” speed (sometimes fast, sometimes slow). We host Goat Hikes from October to May. Private groups accepted by appointment.