Forget the roar of gas-powered mowers, Jay Peak, Vermont, is going full throttle into the new season with a much quieter, and furrier, trail crew. The resort has added some unusual new hires to its ...

Good help is hard to find. How fortunate, then, that Jay Peak Resort has recruited a motivated landscaping crew quite literally born for the job. For the second straight year, the ski area is hosting ...

Jay Peak is experimenting with grazing some of their ski trails this fall instead of mowing them. Every fall, ski areas across Vermont have to brush hog and weed whack their slopes to clear them of ...

JAY, Vt. — Months before the first snow beckons skiers, sheep and goats are hitting the slopes in Vermont. Dozens of animals have been mowing down overgrown vegetation at Jay Peak near the Canadian ...

Jay Peak Resort is trying a new approach to trail maintenance this fall by using goats and sheep instead of gas-powered equipment. The animals will graze about 130 acres of ski and Nordic trails ...

For the first time, Jay Peak Resort is employing livestock to help cut down weeds on the slopes. Roughly 150 goats and sheep from Cloud Brook Grazing in Barnet were sent to the resort to feast on the ...

The goats and sheep are back. At Jay Peak, Vermont, a crew of hooved assistants has returned to the slopes this summer, munching on plants like poison ivy and sumac. Known as the Chew Crew, they’re ...

For the first time, Jay Peak Resort is employing livestock to help cut down weeds on the slopes. As boomers are forced back to work because they can’t afford to retire, Robinhood CEO says Gen Zers are ...