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  • From: "Robert Waldrop" <bwaldrop@cox.net>
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  • Subject: [permaculture] Kudzu Utilization Development Zealots United!
  • Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 21:32:44 -0600

OK, for all you kudzu-heads out there, Dan Hemenway of Barking Frogs Permaculture has published his "Kudzu Utilization Project" essay at his website, www.barkingfrogspermaculture.org . This is not a finished "design", or a "standard design", but rather an application of permaculture principles to a specific problem.

In the US, kudzu is considered invasive, but the Chinese and Japanese have no problems with kudzu, because they use it. Its rampant growth is beneficial because that yields a lot of useful plant matter. when dried (sun-dried of course), it reportedly has half the btus of an equivalent amount of coal! And rabbits love the foliage.

Besides these and other interesting ideas on uses for kudzu, which grows "rampantly", the essay also has a couple of pages on permaculture principles which folks may find interesting. It's a pdf document, at www.barkingfrogspermaculture.org/kudzu.pfg .

Bob Waldrop, tadpole in training with Barking Frogs Permaculture




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