Goats hired for Congressional Cemetery

Five goats have been hired to clear the terrain near the Anacostia River, which is full of logs, ivy, and ditches.

The land south of the cemetery’s east end has been overgrown for some time. It is difficult to walk through the area, and it would be expensive to hire a landscaping crew to clean it.

“If you can get a tractor and a brush hog in there, you can brush hog 15 acres in a day, that’s cheap. But there’s a big ditch here. There are logs in there. There’s all kinds of heavy, woody debris that you can’t just brush hog over,” says Brian Knox with Eco-Goats.

Knox’s company delivered 60 goats to the Congressional Cemetery on Wednesday as a replacement for machinery. In a week, Knox expects his goats to have cleared an acre and a half that currently obstructing the view of the cemetery river.