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  • From: Marimike6@cs.com
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] nitrogen fixing trees/shrubs that feed livestock
  • Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 08:32:08 EST

LF London writes

>Austrian field pea would be a better choice. Too cold for a controlled
planting of Kudzu.

You're a strange lad, Lawrence. You wouldn't be the chap that planted kudzu
down by my spring, would you?

By deftly planting kudzu across the south and bridging the wet spots with
water hyacinth it would be possible in August to walk from Port Arthur, TX
over
to the Albemarle Sound without your feet ever touching dry land.

The only practical attainment one might achieve by that would be to have so
much kudzu vine that you could make it into insulated panels, using the
felting
process. Or you could use it as a biofuel, since it grows as fast as you can
harvest it. Maybe one could put a string of electric generators across the
south, and minimize the use of coal in electric plants. I suspect kudzu has
less
mercury-- and you don't have to remove mountaintops to get at it.




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