Home News and Society Invasive plants, weeds are causing problems at a New York park. The solution: Hungry goats. Invasive plants, weeds are causing problems at a New York park. The solution: Hungry goats. News and Society 0 Comment Alison Ettinger-DeLong from the Riverside Park Conservancy said goats can eat porcelain berry, English ivy, mugwort and even poison ivy, she said.