Sheep have been hired to eat invasive plants on Governors Island. They're feasting on phragmite and mugwort to help preserve the trees of Hammock Grove. More from News Sheep have been hired to eat ...
The elm tree was already planted when Tavern on the Green was built as a sheep fold in the 1880s to house the flock that grazed in Sheep Meadow, and it had been in place for over 70 years by the ...