If you’ve read the Carbon Almanac you probably know that the emissions from gas-powered landscaping equipment like leaf blowers or mowers are shockingly high (an hour of using a gas-powered leaf blower emits about as much greenhouse gases as driving a Toyota Camry 1,700 km). So choosing electric makes sense from a climate perspective as well as from that of safeguarding human health as electric tools are typically much quieter.
But what if you could control invasive plants using something that doesn’t require fuel at all? Enter “Munchkin, Mocha, Baba, Wipeout and Cinnamon” just some of the goats “helping themselves to all the plants they could consume in downtown Don Valley Brick Works (DVBW) Park” (in Toronto, Ontario, Canada).
The goats are part of “an innovative pilot project using a specialized “eco-herd” “ that was being “deployed for an intensive two-day grazing session, marking the first time Toronto has tested prescribed grazing for its urban meadow ecosystem.”
Watch this space for the results of this experiment.