Would you pay $2 a day to let a pair of sheep mow your lawn? If you live in Oberlin, Ohio, you now have the option! With the economy what it is, folks are getting realllly creative to earn their livelihoods, even here in the United States. This NY Times article highlights an urban sheep shepherd who rents out his sheep as a lawn care service, another man you can pay to build a backyard chicken coop and teach you to care for your very own poultry, and several other cases where people are turning to creative urban agriculture.
Goats are pretty handy, too. Though they won’t actually eat tin cans, they will eat kudzu, otherwise known as “the weed that ate the South.” In Knoxville, Tennessee, these browsing ruminants have been put to work eating kudzu on farms and along highways since at least 2003.
Right way of earning through live stock. This inspires others too to have one in home for milk with free grass We are coming back to ancient way of living
Yes! The only thing is, not every city allows this. In Little Rock, where I live, you can't keep sheep or goats in the city (unless you're the zoo or have some other special reason). We can keep smaller livestock, though. I've thought about putting my chickens on our front lawn for a while to see how well they'd "mow" the grass.