permaculture

["Robert Waldrop" <bwaldrop@cox.net>]

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