FORT COLLINS, Colo. — A Fort Collins neighborhood is trying a different approach to control invasive weeds, bringing in large black hogs to help tackle a kochia problem that other grazing animals couldn’t solve.
The pigs have spent about three months rooting through the soil in the Rigden Farm neighborhood, targeting weeds and seeds as part of a longer-term restoration effort.
About a year ago, the Rigden Farm Residential Association determined goats would not be enough to address the neighborhood’s growing kochia problem…