Dover, Massachusetts and surrounding towns within about 20 miles, with project sizes scaled by distance — from 1/8 acre within 10 miles, 1/4 acre within 15 miles, to 1/2 acre or more within 20 miles. Work covers private homes, gated communities, condo complexes and assisted-living grounds, plus golf courses, office parks, hotels and utility land, and municipal sites such as parks, schools, cemeteries and walking trails.
About Goats of Dover
The work keeps a pace older than engines: fencing unrolled along a brushy edge, water hauled in, a herd turned loose on poison ivy, oak and sumac until the tangle gives way to open ground. Goats of Dover practices goatscaping — land clearing by grazing — walking each site first to find the harmful plants and measure the ground, then setting the project up and checking on the animals every day until the final cleanup. It suits this stretch of the Charles, where stone walls run off into second-growth woods and hayfields lean up against hills nobody has ever entirely tamed. What the herd leaves behind is the satisfying part: a slope you can walk again, soil loosened and fed where hooves have been, room for native species to come back in through their replanting partners. Golf courses, town parks, cemeteries, condo grounds and private woodlots within twenty miles of Dover — that is how a briar patch becomes a place again.