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  • From: Will Carey <cure@rtinet.com>
  • To: <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] Re: chewing the kudzu ruminations
  • Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 11:35:51 -0800

So does anybody have a good photo of this Chase City sign? I can't find it
on Google search.... It would be great to have a copy for a "learning from
our mistakes" slide show or somesuch...

I did find this, but it seems to be from Florida...

<http://www.itrc.ucf.edu/df/FL_MARK/HISTMARK/kudzu.jpg>

Will

on 12/27/04 9:01 AM, permaculture-request@lists.ibiblio.org at
permaculture-request@lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> The trick is removing the kudzu once you get the desired dirt. There is a
> historical marker just outside Chase City, VA that says "On this spot in
> 1940,
> kudzu was introduced as an agent of erosion control."
>
> The sign is the only thing visible for quite some distance around that isn't
> kudzu, and in the middle of the infestation you can see the engulfed remains
> of an old service station. You have to be careful walking around in such
> places
> because it grows so fast in the morning you can see the tendrils waving




  • [permaculture] Re: chewing the kudzu ruminations, Will Carey, 12/27/2004

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