For Ice Cream, Monty, Mr. Snuggles, and the other sheep here at the Grow Community Garden, it’s a bah-utiful day.

Close to a dozen, fluffy, hungry, adorably-named sheep are munching away on weeds and clovers at this student-run community garden on the campus of George Washington University.

They are from Fairfax-based Lamb Mowers and were hired to help clear the land and prepare the garden for the spring planting season.

“They love to eat a diversity of plants. And so when you have a diversity of weeds sprouting up in your yard, that is a buffet for the sheep,” owner Cory Suter tells DCist/WAMU. “They absolutely love it.”

Suter started Lamb Mowers just over two years ago and the company promotes itself as having the “safest and cutest weed-control services in the DMV.”

The premise is pretty simple. Sheep love to eat weeds and grass. So, they act essentially as shaggy lawn mowers, cutting down overgrowth sans a gas-powered machine (the city bans gas-powered leaf blowers, but not gas lawn mowers).

The hoped-for result from the sheep is a cleared garden done in an environmentally-friendly way along with some left-behind fertilizer to help the soil. And there’s the added bonus of them being cute.

“Whenever I come to a front yard, we usually attract a small crowd of people,” he says, looking out at the college students taking selfies with the chowing down sheep.

The Grow Community Garden on H Street between 23rd and 24th Streets was started about a decade ago. The block-long garden is run by two student managers and several volunteers. The mission of the garden is two-fold. One is to provide students with hands-on experience managing a garden of this nature.

Nicholas Smaldone is one of the student managers, employed by the university. He explains that, for the winter, they plant cover crops like clovers in order to keep the nutrients in the soil. The problem is that come the spring, all of that needs to be cleared. It can be a very labor-intensive process for humans.

For hungry sheep, though, it’s an all-they-can-eat buffet.

“The lambs come and they eat the cover crops, clearing our garden to be ready for planting. And then they also fertilize the soil through their droppings,” Smaldone says. “It’s a great symbiotic relationship.”

The garden’s other mission is to grow vegetables for the non-profit Miriam’s Kitchen, located just around the corner from the garden. The organization provides made-from-scratch meals to those in need.

Miriam Kitchen’s Executive Chef Cheryl Bell says the garden can provide about 50 pounds of veggies a week to the kitchen. It’s often a mixture of tomatoes, greens, herbs, and squash, which comes in very handy when serving upwards of 250 people every day.

The sheep are great, she says, not only because of what they are doing for the soil but also the attention they bring to the garden’s mission.

“It brings an enormous amount of people in to contribute… people want to get involved,” Bell says.

Meanwhile, the sheep are blissfully chomping away on the weeds as onlookers crone on about their cuteness and phones keep snapping pictures. At one point, a few of the animals lie down.

“Oh, it looks like they may be getting a bit hot and full. Slowing down a bit,” Suter says. And just then, several get right back up and to start munching again. Suter laughs.

“I guess they are still hungry.”