According to a report in the Metro of 7 January 2019, a city farm in Kentish Town, London, is appealing for discarded Christmas trees to feed to its goats: ‘last year 60 trees fed seven goats … until April’.  Apparently goats love eating pine-needles, ‘which are also natural de-wormers’.

Image:  discarded Christmas tree, Bedford Hill, Balham, London Borough of Wandsworth, 7 January 2019.

Goat enclosure, Vauxhall City Farm, London Borough of Lambeth, February 2026.

Updated 13 February 2026