Montreal park to use flock of sheep to keep grass at bay

 Montreal's Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie borough introduced the six ewes and two lambs that will serve as environmentally-friendly lawnmowers for the next month as part of an urban agriculture pilot project, in Montreal on Saturday, July 9, 2016. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Morgan Lowrie

Morgan Lowrie, The Canadian Press


MONTREAL -- A Montreal park has a new lawn maintenance crew for the summer, and they're a pretty woolly bunch.
    On Saturday, the Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie borough introduced the six ewes and two lambs that will serve as environmentally-friendly lawnmowers for the next month as part of an urban agriculture pilot project.
Grazing animals have some ecological advantages when it comes to landscaping, said Marie-Eve Julien-Denis, one of the project's organizers.
    "They will enrich the soil with their manure and contribute to urban biodiversity, because insects and birds won't be bothered by the noise of lawnmowers," she said...http://www.cp24.com/news/montreal-park-to-use-flock-of-sheep-to-keep-grass-at-bay-1.2980634