11 August 2022
For 24 days — 5-29 August 2022 — a team of goats and their guard donkey from Allegheny Goatscape are back in Frick Park eating invasive plants.
One of their targets is invasive mile-a-minute (Persicaria perfoliata). It has thorns all over it …
.. but the goats eat it anyway. The challenge will be: Can they eat it fast enough?
Learn how mile-a-minute got to North America in the article below. Pennsylvania is involved!
(photos by Kate St. John)
I saw a White-tailed Deer eating Mile-A-Minute in Frick Park a few months ago. That was one time I was glad to see a deer eating a plant. Of course I don’t know how much of it is part of their diet.
Goats are out at The Waterfront too. Behind Red Robin yesterday.