Environment Green wineries experiment with age-old concept: sheep as mowers Updated: Apr. 16, 2010, 6:00 a.m. | Published: Apr. 16, 2010, 5:00 a.m.

About 100 sheep can maintain the grass at the Sussex solar farm. The site contains over 80,000 solar panels on 216 acres and can generate up to 20 megawatts each day, enough to power 5,000 homes.

Over 40 grazers, including goats, sheep, llamas, burros and alpacas, graze hilly and rocky areas along creeks part of O'Hare's 8,000-acre property that would be difficult to maintain with ...

Skylights punctuate the building’s green roof. The music center was also built with ground-source heat pumps and sheep wool insulation. + Mawson Kerr Via Dezeen ...

Sheep are grazing the University of California, Davis, campus gateway on Old Davis Road this week in an academic experiment to see if sheep can eat weeds and grass, fertilize and control pests as well ...

Luce Center Label Landscape with Sheep was inspired by the countryside around Robert S. Duncanson’s home in Cincinnati. He painted domestic scenes of farmland to emphasize the beauty and perfection of ...

The use of sheep has not fully eliminated the need for landscaping yet. Eberly said the work between sheep and landscaping is at a 50-50 split, and the goal is to get it to a 75-25 sheep-to ...

Now, about 1,000 sheep work for the power company as well. In a process known as solar grazing, sheep consume vegetation on solar farms to reduce the need for lawnmowers and other landscaping ...