chickens. but chickens tend to a have a good sense of what not to eat, as long as they are well fed.
i like to pull a variety of different weeds and deliver them all at once. that way chickens have choices. then, i grab some popcorn and spend the early evening watching them shred roots, find almost invisible insects, eat the tops of some plants while kicking aside the leaves of others.
they are so fastidious in their demolition of weeds that it brings joy to my heart to see them work! chickens eating a pile of weeds is way more entertaining than a movie and cheaper too!
sometimes the weeds are 