Your lawn mower (or your landscaper guy’s lawn mower) is SO five minutes ago.

Even the Sacramento area has caught on to the greener ways of cutting the green. In Rocklin last week, a major road was shut down to make way for the “Running of the Goats”.

View entire news story on CBS13 aka CW31

If I heard correctly, two thousand goats barreled down Park Drive to their next job mowing lawns, giving Barcelona a “run” for their money. And thanks to RE of Entrepod for telling me about this news story in my own city. What! Like I’m up at 7am to catch this stuff.

And In Other Landscaping News…

Here’s Buster from The Goat Patrol operating in “The Triangle”, wherever THAT is. It might be in or near Raleigh, North Carolina, because of my mad research skillz revealing a phone number with an area code of 919.

Got Grass?

image source: The Goat Patrol

via Lisa of Oh My Word!

And if it’s cool enough for Google, it’s cool enough for you. The Big G has also taken to hiring ruminants for their annual lawn mowing.

The new 4G: Google Goats Grazing on Grass

image source: The Official Google blog

And then there’s the good people of Andover who have discovered that goats are cheaper than heavy equipment for maintaining public meadows. Especially when the goats don’t charge to eat your grass. You know, like when banks don’t charge you to keep your money.

And where is Andover? I have no idea, but I’m going to say Massachusetts because this story came from Boston.com, (via Mike of Mike’s Mixed Memories) and I think Boston is in Massachussetts, although I’m not swearing to it.

This is Blackie, a Saanen goat in Andover.

I know, I can see that Blackie is white, what of it?

I wonder if golf courses are hiring these four-legged landscapers. And if they are, do they attach some sort of measuring stick slash muzzle contraption on the goats’ faces that stops them one inch from the ground to attain the perfect putting green?

Isn’t this just the greatest idea? The whole using goats for landscaping thing? I defy you to find a cranky old man who would yell, “Get off my lawn!” at these guys.