Overgrowth in your product garden? Send in the goats

By Nina van der Behr, VP of Product at Learnosity

Let me tell you about the time I became a goatherd. Bear with me because it’ll be a product analogy further on. It’s also 100% true.

After becoming a homeowner for the first time and moving from Sydney to live amid the mountains, I took on the task of transforming a patch of adjoining land into a garden sanctuary.

I loved the idea of spending more time outside and getting my hands dirty cultivating the space. It was badly overgrown so I cut it all back. As I worked, I uncovered some amazing stacked stone garden beds, which I used to plant and nurture some root vegetables, greens, and native Australian flowers.

It was all going exactly as I’d hoped. But trouble was already brewing. When summer arrived, fresh off the back of a wet spring, my sanctuary burst...

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