(MI) The Detroit News – Hockey fans may be focused on the Stanley Cup, but thousands of Michigan residents are vying for a more obscure prize: the Garlic Mustard Cluster Cup.
Across the Great Lakes State, folks with an eye toward keeping garlic mustard — an invasive plant — out of backyards, forests and woodlands are pulling thousands of pounds of the herb from the ground one handful at a time.
The Garlic Mustard Challenge, issued this spring to seven local conservation communities by the nonprofit Stewardship Network of Ann Arbor, has so far netted 45,406 pounds of the pesky little flower. More