Craig Homan’s herd of hungry goats has a busy schedule.

A wet winter and an early spell of warmth have turbocharged vegetation growth in Sydney, creating a pipeline of work for the creatures whose skills as unstoppable eating machines make them consummate low-maintenance weed clearers, meadow mowers and bush bashers.

This week, his 43 Boer goats – chosen for their large size and short hair, ideal for not getting tangled in blackberry bushes – are munching their way through the grass around headstones at Rookwood cemetery, in western Sydney.

Homan, who owns Sydney Eco Land Clearing, uses hard fences to corral the “smart and crafty” animals into a single area and provides water, shelter and supplementary food. Then, he leaves them alone.

“They clear about two acres of dense weeds in tw

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