Dancing Goats Farm

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Pasture to Product: Goat farmer spins mohair into world of color for local fiber artists About 20 minutes north of Asheville, on a pastoral farm in Barnardsville, you’ll meet a woman and her colored Angora Goats. What began as an out-of-state operation became a local pasture-to-product operation with a deep connection to Western North Carolina and a commitment to community: Good F...

The best cure for poison ivy is... to let your goats eat it... just saying the world needs more goats

Poison ivy (and poison oak as well) has three leaves. “Fingers three, turn and flee” is from 1902 and “Leaves three, quickly flee” is from 1904. The rhyme “leaflets three, let it be” has been cited in print since at least 1907.

“Leaves of three, let it be!” was cited in print in 1959 and “Leaves of three, let them be” was cited in print in 1977. However, the rhyme minimizes the danger of other plants; poison sumac has 7—13 leaflets.

Similar poison ivy rhymes include “Leaves of five, let it thrive,” “Berries white, a poisonous sight,” “Hairy vine, no friend of mine” and “Raggy rope, don’t be a dope.”

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Photo Laurie Jensen