Goats of Dover

Goats of Dover solves a poison-ivy problem by eating it. The Dover company grazes its own herd on site to strip invasive and harmful plants — poison ivy, oak, sumac — off residential, commercial and municipal land, and says it covers Dover, Natick, Canton, Sherborn and Milton. That is the pitch. The written history is thinner on the clearing work than you would expect. Its Google page averages 4.9 across 10 ratings, and of the seven reviews on file only one is about a grazing job: a January 2026 customer wrote that if you need goats to take care of poison ivy or other invasive plants, this is the place to go. The rest describe the other half of the business — the goats themselves. A 2025 visitor met more than 25 newborn kids and credited Mary and John with how the animals are kept. A 2023 parent booked two baby goats for a son's birthday and singled out John's communication beforehand. A preschool the same year had the herd visit and said the children learned about handling and caring for animals. Two more birthday bookings in 2022 read much the same way. The same names keep coming up, and the people who dealt with them came away happy. So the reputation you can actually check runs 2022 to 2026 and is mostly about goat visits and events rather than land clearing. If you are hiring for the clearing service, that is the gap to close on the phone: ask what acreage they have grazed nearby, and for references from those jobs specifically. A landscaping-only contractor is exempt from Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration, so there is no registration to look up here. This is the call for a homeowner with an overgrown, poison-ivy-choked corner who would rather not spray it — and for anyone who wants goats at a birthday party.