Scape Goats Ranch is the year-round home of the working herd behind Scape Goats Grazing. Our 30-acre ranch near Montrose, Colorado, is where we work with livestock, soil, irrigation water, vegetation, and the practical systems required to care for land over time.
This is not a finished display farm built around a perfect picture. It is a working place where projects are tested, observed, adjusted, and occasionally rebuilt as we learn from the animals and the land.
The Herd
Our herd of 80 goats provides the browsing power behind Scape Goats Grazing. Between grazing projects, the ranch is where we manage their health, nutrition, handling, fencing habits, and the daily routines that make a mobile working herd possible.
The goats are not scenery attached to the business. Their welfare, behavior, experience, and individual browsing preferences directly influence what can be accomplished in the field.
The Land
The ranch is an ongoing land-management project. Our work includes rotational grazing, irrigation and water movement, soil protection, vegetation management, perennial plantings, and the gradual development of more functional and resilient systems.
Not everything works the first time. What succeeds—and what fails—helps us ask better questions when evaluating other properties. The ranch gives us a place to observe land response over multiple seasons instead of treating vegetation management as a one-time cosmetic job.
Scape Goats Grazing
Scape Goats Grazing is the professional service that takes the herd’s browsing ability beyond our fence. Targeted grazing can help manage selected weeds, brush, fine fuels, overgrown corridors, and difficult terrain where conventional equipment may not be the best fit.
Every project is evaluated individually. Vegetation, terrain, access, water, fencing, timing, neighboring properties, animal care, and the desired outcome all shape whether goats are appropriate for the work.
Ranch Goods
Small-batch goat milk soap is the first ranch-made product being developed for sale. It is produced in ten-bar batches and cured by hand, with each finished bar weighing approximately 4 ounces.
Production remains deliberately small while recipes, scents, packaging, and dependable inventory are refined. Available products and purchase links will be added when individual batches are ready.
Follow the Work
The Ranch Journal records targeted grazing, goat husbandry, soil, water, vegetation, and the many small decisions involved in building a functional ranch system. It provides a place to document what we are learning without pretending every experiment produces a tidy success story.