05/19/2026
When we started a U-pick flower farm, it didn’t take long to realize I needed some animal assistance. We decided on 6 ducks for pest control and 2 geese as their guardians but quickly fell in love with the geese. This spring we decided to hatch two Sebestapol Geese (curly feathers here we come!).
Here’s why geese are our farm favorites:
🪿They love their little pond set up right next to the flower field. That poopy water means water soluble nutrients that are the ideal organic fertilizer! 💩
🪿Their pine pellets for bedding can be sprinkled all around the flowers for extra mulch and fertilizer purposes too.
🪿 They devour the weeds I pull and love hanging right with me in the field as I work. They don’t dig/scratch up seedlings like chickens would.
🪿 They have quite the personalities. 😏Seriously ornery personalities at times but we love them for it.
🪿 I don’t need a stone porch goose statue & they even let us dress them up a bit 😂