"For several years now, we have reduced mowing to three times a year for environmental reasons, while sheep provide a natural complement to these efforts,” Michał Mendala, a local official in the southern city of Katowice, told public broadcaster Polish Radio.
“Once grazing is completed in one location, the flock moves on to the next," he said. "Another clear benefit of this approach is the absence of the noise typically associated with lawn mowers."
Noisy petrol-powered lawnmowers are hardly welcome in the coal-mining Silesia region of which Katowice is the capital.
The province has the worst air pollution in Poland and Europe resulting in tens of thousands of premature deaths annually.
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