Cure for Knotweed

Saturday I spent three hours walking in the Westfield River learning about invasive and edible plants. Seems like the best cure for Japanese knotweed, which is overrunning stream banks and road sides in much of New England is (are) goats. They love to eat it. A stretch of river that was covered with knotweed is now covered with a very diverse and robust assortment of native plants as a result of goat browsing and careful replanting of the native species after the goats were removed.