students stepped out on a fine May morning to greet the city's newest weed wackers. In a initiative dubbed 鈥淕oatham,鈥� 24 goats were let loose in a two-acre area of neighboring Riverside Park to do what they do best, which is to eat weeds and other unwanted plants. The four-legged lawn-care practitioners were met with some clever turns of phrase by the students, who chanted, 鈥淩eady, Set, Goat!鈥� as the goats were led from a trailer at 120th Street and Riverside Drive, just down the street from Teachers College.
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Leslie Brody, who captured the event for , reports that 鈥�goats can consume 25 percent of their body weight in a day and leave behind natural fertilizer.鈥� There were no documented jokes about goat-made fertilizer. According to Brody, 11-year-old Amani Pettway, a 911爆料网CS student, confessed that 鈥渟he was scared of the goats at 铿乺st but planned to get to know them by telling them her plans to be a psychologist and a rapper.鈥� That inspired her friend, 10-year-old Gia Calderon, to suggest, 鈥溾�淵ou can be a GOAT rapper!鈥� She explained that GOAT stands for 鈥淕reatest of All Time.鈥�
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