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Fri Jan 11, 2019, 11:32 PM Jan 2019

This farm has a novel way to dispose of Christmas trees - PBS NewsHour

Let the goats eat them

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/this-farm-has-a-novel-way-to-dispose-of-christmas-trees



With the conclusion of the holiday season, many Americans face the task of disposing of their Christmas tree. A Massachusetts farm has devised an unusual method of eliminating the old trees: 19 hungry goats. Brian Sullivan of WGBY reports from Housatonic, Massachusetts.

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This farm has a novel way to dispose of Christmas trees - PBS NewsHour (Original Post) question everything Jan 2019 OP
Please don't forget about the elephants Niagara Jan 2019 #1
I didn't know goats and elephants eat xmas trees. Blue_true Jan 2019 #2
We can eat pine trees too Niagara Jan 2019 #4
With Trump in office, maybe we should start practicing eating pine trees. Blue_true Jan 2019 #6
I posted a pic last week Bayard Jan 2019 #3
Nice goats. Where are they located? question everything Jan 2019 #5
We are in Kentucky Bayard Jan 2019 #8
After Sandy, NJ shore towns used old trees to (re)build dunes crazycatlady Jan 2019 #7

Niagara

(12,128 posts)
1. Please don't forget about the elephants
Fri Jan 11, 2019, 11:57 PM
Jan 2019

Elephants like to eat Christmas trees as well. Most zoo's will take them after the Christmas season.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
2. I didn't know goats and elephants eat xmas trees.
Sat Jan 12, 2019, 12:10 AM
Jan 2019

I know that horses like tree bark, maybe I should not be surprised.

Niagara

(12,128 posts)
4. We can eat pine trees too
Sat Jan 12, 2019, 01:00 AM
Jan 2019

I wouldn't think it would be delicious or anything.

Creek Stewart on The Weather Channel taught me that we could survive off pine trees in a dire situation.

I only hope that nobody ever has to do this to survive.


Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
6. With Trump in office, maybe we should start practicing eating pine trees.
Sat Jan 12, 2019, 04:09 PM
Jan 2019

As a southerner: deep fried pine, yum, yum! Hold the salad.

Bayard

(30,288 posts)
3. I posted a pic last week
Sat Jan 12, 2019, 12:46 AM
Jan 2019

Our goats eating our xmas tree.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/116142597

I should take another pic, because there's not much left now but a stub.

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