With 44 million square meters of park space to take care of and few funds to invest in maintaining it, Rome’s city hall has started thinking of lateral approaches to the task of keeping overgrown grass at bay. After experimenting with flocks of sheep left to graze in the vast Caffarella Park, environment councillor Pinuccia Montanari has announced that she’s considering bringing cows from the countryside onto the city’s green patches. It may have been dubbed “farcical” by the city government’s opposition but the initiative is not without merit: other than being light on the municipal coffers, hiring a herd for this gardening job can afford residents a touch of nature and wildlife that they’d barely get a glimpse of within the confines of the city.