Porcine employees

A new, small pig project has been started up in a meadow 10 km from my home. A strip of land in nearby Oosterbeek, the Netherlands is suffering from invasive Japanese knotweed, a plant difficult to remove once it’s growing somewhere. All strategies seem to have failed. Well, all but one. Pigs have now been trucked in as a last resort solution. Six of them, young females, to be precise, of the Bentheim breed. As omnivores, they should be able to deal with the problem. I took a look at the proje