Need to kill some weeds? Rent a pony
A businesswoman in the north of France offers the most eco-friendly weed killers ever: farm animals.
“We want to replace mechanical tools with non-polluting alternatives“, says Marjorie Deruwez of Ecozoone. She has around eighty animals on offer: cows, ponies, donkeys and goats. She recommends the ones that are best suited for the task at hand, but private customers usually go for donkeys and ponies.
So far, the company has fifteen contracts, both with private customers and towns. One municipality has currently ten ponies at work on a 12.4 ha (30 acres) area of virgin land between two rail lines, which is inaccessible for tractors.
Ecozoone currently employs only its boss, but the company sees a future for a new generation of shepherds.
Sun 27-Apr-08 | Posted in: Environment & Health
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Comment from General Pepper
Time: April 27, 2008, 10:31 am
read the fine print before signing up! my donkeys eat grass, then branches and tree trunks, then shrubs, then fence posts and wooden structures and only THEN will they go after “mauvaises herbes” and weeds!!!
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