• you contact us with a description of the site including size and location, your goals for transformation, and when you’d like the work done (oftentimes Hollyhock will suggest timing!). email is preferred, but we’re happy to take notes over the phone if that’s more your speed.

• we find a good time for a site visit so we can walk the land together, discuss your goals, and generally craft a potential course of action. a very general cost estimate for grazing work is provided. site visits are usually free for projects smaller than five acres.

• we write a site assessment outlining your goals, a full description of the site including photos and key notes, a grazing plan, approximate schedule, potential outcomes, and — depending on the nature of the job — an ongoing timeline of grazing work. this assessment is valuable information that we do ask a fee for; should we enter into a grazing agreement together, the fee goes towards the overall cost of services; if not, the assessment is still yours to keep and use to support the tending of your land.

• you hire us! we send you a service contract! this is pretty straightforward and mostly just covers liability.

• we get some grazing on the calendar! because so many factors of grazing are out of our hands (namely: what the hell is the climate going to be this season?!) we schedule a window of time. sometimes a massive rain event makes access to your site unfeasible for our trailer, sometimes a grey spring delays growth by weeks and weeks, sometimes drought diminishes this season’s growth and really speeds our calendar up… we’ve gotta be flexible, but we will be communicative.

• we do some prep on the site, mostly putting up portable electric fences. we do all this work in the days leading up to the arrival of the goats so they can hop off the trailer and get right to work.

• the Hollyhock herd makes your dreams come true. we love the joy the goats bring to the folks we work with. humans communing with animals on the land is why we do this work.

the cost of our grazing work varies by site. smaller projects (less than 5 acres) typically cost $800-1000/acre. projects ranging between 5 and 10 acres are typically $500-750/acre. larger landscapes can cost $300-400/acre.

there are a number of factors that go into how we price out our work, and we seek to keep prices sustainably low. however much we quote you, the grazing work is well worth it.

it’s best to meet with us as early as possible. ideally we would do a site visit this season and contract for next season so we can shoot for the most impactful timing of our grazing work!

some projects don't require prescribed timing, and we can usually squeeze in a week of grazing throughout our season.

reach out to us as early as you have an inkling of interest ;-)

nope! we’re a full service targeted grazing provider. you don’t rent the goats — you hire us to help care for your land.

should you be able to do some mowing where we will put up fences, we always show our appreciation for that with a discount at the end of the work.

fifty goats can clear an acre in about two days, depending on what’s going on with the vegetation. of course, there’s variation to this, but we can give you a pretty solid estimation ahead of grazing.

if you’re really, really nice.

seriously though: most of the herd is pretty uninterested in being touched, we don’t want fences messed with (you don’t want the goats to eat your flowers…), and it can be a nightmare to wrangle a herd loose in the neighborhood. please don’t touch the animals or the fence — it’s in the best interest of all!