It’s the time of year when holiday decorations are coming down, and in Chicago, there’s a unique way to recycle your Christmas tree: hungry goats on an urban farm on the South Side.
“These girls have the hugest appetite you will ever see. They never stop being hungry,” said Keani Staton, community & volunteer coordinator at Urban Growers Collective, a Black- and women-led 7-acre farm in the South Chicago neighborhood. “The goats love it. They’re spoiled.”
After the holidays, their normal diet of hay is just an appetizer to the main course of pine trees. Discarded Christmas trees are like their Christmas dinner. They just have to wait a couple weeks after Christmas…