# @chapelboronews on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DNyUcDl3D5w
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- **Posted:** 2025-08-25T17:23:26.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Chapelboro.com (@chapelboronews) — https://gondola.cc/chapelboronews

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For Endswell Funeral Home and Joe Van Gogh Coffee Roastery, kudzu is an invasive plant that recently overwhelmed both Hillsborough properties. But for a local herd of goats, it’s a high-protein snack.

Only last week, the kudzu entirely covered about an acre of land sitting between the two businesses. The funeral home’s founder and owner Hunter Beattie said the vine’s apocalyptic growth even extended into vehicles in the parking lot.

“You should have seen it,” Beattie said. “It was verdant. It was bright and green. It was Jumanji.”

Because Endswell is North Carolina’s first eco-friendly funeral home, offering sustainable funeral services, Beattie said he did not want to use toxic herbicides to weaken the plant. When researching alternatives, he found Goats On The Go Raleigh-Durham: a local herd that would eat away the unwanted vine. 

“I messaged [the operator], he came out, and he gave me an estimate that was actually lower than it was for humans to deal with the kudzu,” Beattie explained. “And supposedly, the goats would do a more thorough job because I think the majority of the kudzu seeds don’t survive the four chamber stomach of the goat’s digestive system.”

And when three dozen goats arrived at Endswell on August 14, Beattie said they were hungry for the vine.

“[The goats] went to work immediately,” Beattie said. “They’ve all got interesting personalities, and it’s really funny to see them stand up and get to some little piece of a leaf that’s higher up in the tree than they should even be attempting to eat.”

In just a week, the herd cleared nearly the entire ravine dividing the funeral home and the coffee shop. And while chomping away at the kudzu, they were also going viral on social media.

Full story on Chapelboro.com.
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