GOATs Come to Flint’s North Side – The Courier News

GOATs come to Flint’s north side – The Courier News

Featured photo: 48 happy goats and one sheep came to Ramona Park in north Flint to clear brush. Written by and with photos by L. M. Land Flint’s Land Bank has more than 10,100 vacant lots according to their annual report for 2023/2024. To combat the growing brush problem on these lots, a pilot program to use goats to clear brush was started on June 23, 2025, thanks to a grant from the Saginaw Bay Watershed Initiative Network. The goal is to turn

Goats arrive in Flint to munch on invasive plants - Flint Beat

FLINT, Mich. — Invasive plants are threatening Flint’s green spaces, but a team of 48 goats are on the job. On Monday, June 23, 2025, the Genesee County Land Bank launched a new urban vegetation management project that uses goats to help eliminate Buckthorn, a fast-growing invasive species known for choking out native plants and taking over open land. The goats will spend the summer grazing on eight Land Bank-owned parcels near Ramona Park on Fl…