Montreal's Parc Maisonneuve will host a gang of roaming sheep once again this summer. This will be the sixth year the animals will take to the Rosemont–La-Petite-Patrie park as part of an "urban eco-grazing project" a way to tend grass without using fossil fuels.
Sheep. Sheeps. Sheepsies. Sheepseses. Shoops. However you want to pluralize it, they'll be around to greet you this summer. Three Montreal parks will host roaming sheep between May and September 2022.In addition to their now annual season-long appearance in Parc Maisonneuve, sheep will be roaming Parcs du Chevalier-Cuivré and André-Corbeil-dit-Tranchemontagne in Rivière-des-Prairies from June 5 to July 24 as part of a pilot project.The sheep are from Biquette, an organization that advocates for eco-grazing using animals instead of machinery to tend greenspaces. Online, Biquette says benefits of the practice include a reduction in air and sound pollution, as well as increased biodiversity thanks to animal droppings.