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  • From: Barbara Money <bmoney9@verizon.net>
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  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] two ag's not one
  • Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:59:41 -0400



Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 06:45:41 -0400
From: Harvey Ussery<harvey@themodernhomestead.us>
To:livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] two agricultures not one
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Rugosa roses that produce quite large hips have been bred and should be
fairly easy to locate. I got my three from Edible Landscaping.
(http://eat-it.com/ and key in "pavement rose" in the search box)

Mulberries can be dried and stored just like raisins. I don't know how
the Vit C content stacks up against ribes spp. or rugosa rose.

~Harvey



Around here, tons of R. rugosa grows in the rich alluvial soil along the south shore, if one has access and they aren't on a roadside (where they'd have vehicle toxins on them). It's considered invasive and boy is it. I suppose though, a controlled plantation where the hips are all harvested so the wildlife doesn't spread them would work. Hmm, maybe my friend and I can take a ride down to Jamestown next week....

I have a mulberry root sucker coming up where a large bush stood years ago, and a very old mostly dead bush elsewhere; I wonder if I can root cuttings...?

Barbara M
Foster, RI

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"Animals Are A Gift"




  • Re: [Livingontheland] two ag's not one, Barbara Money, 09/30/2010

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