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Kudzu - what to do to grab control of the crazy vine
By Amy Wood
Friday, August 15, 2008
Tryon is thinking out of the box! The goats the town hired to tackle the kudzu problem - got the job done!
The out of control vine is messing up a green space the North Carolina town wants to show off.
So for the last month goats, like the one we grabbed a picture of from air seven, chewed on the problem! (This guy looks like he’s on break!) The goats were hired, with a promise they’ll devour vine after vine, for a charge of 600 bucks.
So have you ever had to tackle kudzu at your house?
Maybe you cook with the stuff, you know there are kudzu jams and things.
Share your kudzu stories here and click into CW LIVE CHAT during Your CW News at Ten to talk it over with me, and the rest of our viewers.
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In Japan they harvest the roots and make a starch out of it called Kuzu. It is used for medicinal uses. It is very healing/soothing for the intestines.
To make Kuzu they buldoze up the roots which are huge. Then they somehow get the juice out of it and dry it to a powder. Then they sell it for a bunch of money. Last time I bought it it was 6 dollars for a little bitty bag. I’m talking little bag. I’ve seen it $120/lb.
To use it you disolve it in water and use it to thicken foods like gravies or deserts.
I’m not certain if our Kudzu is the same variety but I understand it got to the US from Japan, so it’s probably the same stuff.
ok!
umm its ok for the animals to eat but it grows to fast and the animals welll eat too much and get sickk..
so they dont need to do this for a WHOLE month!!
so Yeah.
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Why not harvest and it eat. It tastes like lettuce, and it’s free.
As hard as times are getting, I say if it is edible, let’s get it on the menu!
Linda, pick only the newest leaves. It grows up to a foot a day, so that shouldn’t be too hard. Oh - be sure to wash it like you would any flora.
If it grows that fast, we should be figuring out how to cross it with other plants that are staples, like corn, rice, soy beans or wheat, because there’s a planetary population explosion coupled with third-world starvation, and if it could be cross-pollenated, there would be a fair to middling chance of “creating” plants that could survive desert conditions. Think about it…everything else dies before the Kudzu.
Amy, did news 7 run a story on air about eating Kudzu? I noticed a link on the main page the other day.reaction68
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