Posted on 03/14/2007 5:15:55 AM PDT by Tolkien
The bird got it right
bttt
For the non southern members, Kudzu is a verrrry agressive vine that will climb over anything. The rate can be up to 6" per day. Cows can hardly keep it in check in the pastures. It will cover whole forest quickly. It is now becoming a real pest on the Eastern shore of Maryland. Along Still Pound Creek road it is getting very bad....KILL ALL KUDZU.... The bird is a great analogy for the way to deal with both the human species of Kudzu as well as Plants.
My sideyard used to look like that. Then, I had Chuck Norris over for a garden party.
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It has blanketed huge swaths of Alabama. Someday the world will be covered in kudzu. Fortunately, you can eat it.
>>>It has blanketed huge swaths of Alabama. Someday the world will be covered in kudzu. Fortunately, you can eat it.
I wonder about its cellulosic properties and if it would be viable for use to make ethanol...hmmm...
If it tastes like pizza, then I'm in.
I've heard it is edible. Wonder what the nutritional values of it are or better yet can in be turned into biofuel? Seems like there would be more than enough to go around. lol
great question
the stuff grows like crazy without any need to tend to it
but it's difficult to harvest
Run it through a goat...
http://www.alabamatv.org/kudzu/
"Henry and Edith Edwards of Rutherfordton, North Carolina have found many uses for kudzu over the past 30 years. Henry produces over 1,000 bales of kudzu hay each year on his Kudzu Cow Farm. The hay is high in nutritive value, but many people have found kudzu difficult to cut and bale. Henry says the secret is to "cut it low and bale it high."
I expect that if you run it through a cow first it can be used in methane production.
oh oh Algore climate change alert.......LOL
from http://www.alabamatv.org/kudzu/
"Dr. Errol G. Rhoden, along with other researchers at Tuskegee University, has successfully raised Angora goats in fields of kudzu which would otherwise be considered wasted land. The goats keep the kudzu from spreading further while producing profitable milk and wool products. Rhoden says constant grazing will eventually eradicate kudzu. If kudzu is to provide a continuing food source, animals must be removed from the fields occasionally to allow the vines time to grow."
This will, of course, also provide you with goat flop for your methane digester.
If kudzu has properties like switchgrass, it could be pelletized, and burned to generate electricity, or perhaps some enzyme could be genetically engineered to make it usable for ethanol.
Tax it, that'll kill it :P
I've heard it is edible
I make Kudzu jelly out of the blossoms. It is great.
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