CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - Chattanooga city officials say they plan to use a herd of goats as a more environmentally friendly way of curbing the invasive weed kudzu. Maurice Beavers, who owns a goat farm in Lakesite, will provide the city with 30 to 50 goats for about $1,800 a month to eat the kudzu starting in September, said Public Works Deputy Administrator Lee Norris. "Goats like kudzu. The only way you can kill kudzu is eat it back to where the root comes from," said Norris, adding that the goats are an environmentally friendly way to deal with the...
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As kudzu takes invades the South, one town makes peace with it
DAHLONEGA, Ga. (KRT) - This quaint little town on the edge of the Blue Ridge Mountains is known for its sparkling waterfalls, its showcase of colorful fall leaves and its sweeping display of weeds, or kudzu, that drape over trees to form a landscape of towering green statues.In much of the South, kudzu - a stubborn and fast growing vine from Asia that covers up to 7 million acres from Florida to Texas - is known as "the green menace."But people who live in the mountains have embraced it as part of the Appalachian culture, holding yearly festivals, using its...