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Holiday trees repurposed as goat food

JoAnn Echtler, with her goats and chickens in Middlesex Township, is looking for Christmas trees to feed her goats. Cary Shaffer/Butler Eagle

MIDDLESEX TWP — JoAnn Echtler is coming for your holiday trees.

“I should get a Grinch costume. We are just stealing people’s Christmas trees,” said the Cranberry Township Berkshire Hathaway Home Services Realtor.

It’s true that on Jan. 10 Echtler and her husband, Bryan DeHart, will be on the road in a dump truck towing a trailer, snatching up pine trees from the roadside.

But it’s not because they hate Christmas and their hearts are two sizes too small.

It’s their third annual “Christmas tree roundup,” and the pine trees will go to feed Echtler’s herd of fainting goats.

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