From the spring to the early autumn, we feed the goats hawthorn and willowherb plus any other branches and suitable garden waste. We are now at the point where the willowherb is so far past its best that it is unusable. We then switch to the winter diet of bamboo, ivy, privet, hay and apples. At the moment we are still feeding them hawthorn but within the next two weeks, we expect that to come off the menu of the goats' cafe. We have however already started cutting the bamboo and feeding it to them. We have two significant clumps of bamboo on the edge of our Farside allotment and if we left them to their own devices, they would spread rapidly. So cutting them back can therefore serve two purposes.
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