• In the Hérault, the farm of Sévy recovers, each year, the Christmas trees of the inhabitants, after the holidays, to feed them to goats and sheep.

  • “In it, there are a lot of vitamins and trace elements.

    And it is a natural vermifuge, like brambles,” explains Séverine Montfort, the owner.

  • Faced with the immense success of this original initiative, this animal mediation worker had to stop donating trees for this year.

And you, what do you do with your Christmas tree after the holidays?

Are you one of the indelicates, who abandon it on a sidewalk?

Or those who do things well, bringing it to a collection point?

How about dropping it off at a farm, to be eaten by goats and sheep?

In Saint-Pargoire (Hérault), each year, at the beginning of January, the farm of Sévy collects the fir trees of the inhabitants of the area, to offer them to its goats and its sheep.

Because these animals love Christmas trees!

“In it, there are a lot of vitamins, and trace elements, especially in the sap.

And it is a natural vermifuge, like brambles,” explains Séverine Montfort, owner of this family farm, which offers animal mediation sessions with children, seniors or people with disabilities.

Goats are the most fond of Christmas trees.

"They start to eat the needles, everything that is green, then they nibble the bark of the branches and the trunk", smiles the Héraultaise.



No artificial snow or glitter

Of course, Séverine Montfort makes sure, when a Christmas tree is brought to her, that there has been no artificial snow, colored bombs or glitter on the branches.

It would be toxic to animals.

And what goats and sheep like is when there is foot.

Like that, it stands up, and the whole menagerie can cluster around it.


“The first year, after the holidays, I gave them my tree to eat, and those of two or three friends from the village, confides the operator.

The following year, I published an advertisement on Facebook, I had a good ten of them.

And this year, my post was widely shared!

“Since then, she has been overwhelmed with donations.

To prevent these boarders with goatee from grazing indigestion, Séverine Montfort had to, for this year, a few hours ago, stop picking them up.

“They brought me about fifty, that's enough for this year!

I only have 13 goats and 8 sheep!

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