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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Groundnut, apios americana
  • Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 02:05:33 -0500

Lisa in Oregon wrote:

Is there some reason this doesn't get talked about much, or am I missing some problem with it? N-fixing and 17% protein! Is it any
good? Seems like I hear from time to time about various lost crops of the incas but not about this lost crop of the native north americans...

Isn't there a lot of work involved in making it 1) palatable 2) safe to eat?
Maybe it is used to make flour.






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