#Kudzu

[trunswicked]

Handy Raccoon

[abandonedography]

Kudzu has always fascinated me. I've always wished I could walk on it or go under its canopy but I'm sure If I tried to explore it enough I would be trapped in its vastness and succumb to its vines.

(via Appalachian Aesthetics)

[eelbite]

quickie today (=^●__●^=)🍎

when everypony was doing laundry at leo's and kud was the only one who didn't get a shirtless sprite a tear rolled down my cheek

[sourisverte]

Dahlonega, North Georgia.

[jasonlowder]

The plant that swallowed the south...

[lionfloss]

by danielmercadante

[resident-idiot-simp]

He speaks the truth lmao

[sw4mpc0re]

My favorite plant.

Invasive, all consuming, impossible to control.

"bane" of the south, so strong it can grow in zero g.

Kudzu, I love you

[epellucid]

via

[headspace-hotel]

I've found that YouTube is a great resource for the use of plants where text resources on the internet have nothing.

I've been researching the use of kudzu and I found this video on how to make kudzu root powder including how it can be used in cooking.

Right now I'm trying to follow this video in how to process kudzu vines into thread for textiles.

Kudzu has been known in China, Japan and Korea for thousands of years to be an amazingly useful plant!

The forester where I work has applied roundup to the kudzu patch over and over to get rid of it, but it comes back every time. Pesticides are applied to large areas to get rid of kudzu. But this is a plant useful for human needs.

I can hear you say, "Use kudzu instead of killing it? You must be crazy! It takes over and destroys ecosystems!"

But the monoculture corn and cotton fields that give us food and clothing now take over and destroy ecosystems, and those plants need synthetic fertilizers and all sorts of pesticides that wash into the streams and poison the water. Kudzu doesn't need to be weeded or fertilized, it is too ferocious for that nonsense, in fact it fertilizes the ground because it is a legume which fixes nitrogen.

And in the parts of the kudzu patch where it hasn't yet overgrown into huge thickets, it has plenty of ferns, brambles, sedges, and asters.

I think if folks were getting out there with an axe like in the video and chopping the roots out of the ground, and harvesting the vines as well, the kudzu would not grow to where it swallows everything.

Imagine a rotation where a kudzu patch is used to harvest vines for fibers, then it is used as a pasture for goats, then the kudzu roots are harvested, then the kudzu patch can be used for other crops after being fertilized by the nitrogen fixation and manure.

This operation could make goat milk soap scented with kudzu flowers...kudzu paper...kudzu baskets...

[coldlaugh]

𝙺𝚞𝚍𝚣𝚞

[blatentmisinformation]

The Astral Plane has been noted by various prominent psychics to be suffering from extreme ecological damage due to the introduction of invasive Kudzu in 1976.

[eelbite]

love this guy wish he was my ex’s neighbor

[fuckyeahechoproject]

[unsafescapewolf]

-hands you a Kudzu-

[premierweird]