Eating Like a Goat

It isn't true that goats eat everything.  Goats don't eat the mallow that grow everywhere choking out all other plants and is the bane of my existence.  Goats don't eat it, that its, unless you pick it yourself and hand feed it to them one nibble at a time.  Goats will, however, chow down on a plastic tarpaulin.  If you shout at them to quit, and run to stop them, they'll chow down even faster.  Don't worry though, after you pull a couple miles of tarp out of their throats, whatever they've already ingested will magically turn into garden fertilizer pellets.

Goats, I have learned, are not classed as grazers, but as browsers.  This means they like to roam the neighborhood and sample a weed or two here (if it isn't mallow) and a garden crop there, a flower bush on one side and the saplings you got for Mother's Day on the other.

I have learned also that all parts of the mallow which is the bane of my existence is actually humanly edible and nutritious, just like the dandelion which is the bane of Hunneypunkin's existence.

And now I have learned that lilac flowers too are edible.  So of course I absolutely must experiment with making lilac sugar, lilac honey, lilac syrup, lilac lemonade, and lilac extract.  It occurred to me as I was roaming through my yard like Jeremy Renner on his ranch to collect edible oddities that if I start eating yard plants, it's like I'm turning into the goats that I love and hate so much.