The sheep will not touch the lavender. That is the whole trick, and it is the reason there is no herbicide on the fields at the Mt. Nebo Botanical Farm and Distillery in Mona, Utah. Sheep dislike the floral scent, so the farm turns them loose in the rows during the growing season, where they eat the weeds and grasses and leave the crop alone. It is a low-tech solution to a problem many growers solve with herbicides, and it costs little more than…
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