400 goats boost seminary’s ‘head-count’

The Baptist Courier

Four hundred goats descended on the verdant hillsides of Golden Gate Baptist Seminary in July, cutting the grass as well as the seminary’s costs for landscaping staff. “We save approximately $5,000 in labor and materials by contracting with Goats-R-Us,” said Robert Dvorak, the seminary’s facilities management director. The goats, which were stationed for three weeks on the steeper areas of the 120-acre campus in Mill Valley, Calif., have been annual visitors for the past five years. They were managed by a Chilean goat herder and two border collies. The goats were supplied with water, a salt lick and all the delectable natural grasses and poison oak they could eat.