Eating kudzu, the vine that ate the South | Sci NC
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- Опубликовано: 24 мар 2020
- Kudzu is a ubiquitous site along highways in the South, swallowing everything in it's path. But is it really the monster we think it is? And now that it's here, should we just start...eating it?
More resources:
NC List of Invasive Species: nc-ipc.weebly.com/nc-invasive-...
Kudzu Culture: kudzuculture.net/
The True Story of Kudzu, the Vine That Never Truly Ate the South: www.smithsonianmag.com/scienc...
Kudzu is edible. Why aren’t we eating it?: www.ajc.com/entertainment/din... 
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You could easily raise cows and goats on kudzu patches. They will overgraze if allowed as the protein content is high and it is very palatable to animals. Humans could also live off the leaves if prepared like spinach but honestly animals are better converters into animal protein. We could have easily fed our rabbits on it, they eat it like crazy including the vines. Chickens can be raised on it too but ours did not like it in favor of commercial feed.
A big problem with kudzu is that it destroys native forests. Its not so much a problem on farms, so the animals would need to be moved, sometimes miles into a forest, then set up a grazing patch with a fence and be monitored for 2-3weeks. It's possible, but takes lots of money, planning, and willing farmers to participate.
Kudzu actually only covers 1 tenth of one percent of the South's 200milliom acres of forest. It is also quickly disappearing with the introduction of the Japanese kudzu beetle. Its pretty much a problem fixing itself.
@@notthatguy4703 Nancy Basket (native American) told me that only the outside of forests are places for kudzu because kudzu will not grow well in shade. I have 14 blogs.
You are correct, kudzu is excellent forage for all livestock but it easily kills out after taking years to establish and the original plantings are all declining and the acreage under kudzu was immensely exaggerated. Here are facts from Scientists at Alabama Department of Agriculture ruclips.net/video/-39OEvVLT1U/видео.html
All of you are idiots. Kudzu is engulfing everything in manners that are impossible to control. Once it's on a single creek bank, within 10 years it engulfs the entire water system downstream and literally decimates the most vital resources (trees, fauna, plants, bugs, aquatic life & wipes out almost every single species of fish).
All of this B.S. you people spout...it would spread kudzu to every single creek, pond, pool, river, stream and valley across the southeast and choke out entire ecosystems.
You're narcissistic if you think any of the things you propose would every keep it under control. Get off your self righteous thrones and deal in the reality that it should NEVER be spread again.
Pull it out at the crown, eliminate the tap roots. We NEED the native species and "re-purposing" it for here...is just saying you're going to annihilate every bit of habitat we have for every plant and animal we have.
lol no you can't. Cows die if they eat too much clover.. this vine would do them in even faster.
Goats can eat what the people don’t use. Problem solved. Nature always gives us a mutually beneficial solution to any problem.
The only bias I have is that it kills EVERYTHING!
I use to see this on the side of the highway as a kid when my family went on road trips to the south. I use to think the trees looked like monsters all covered up with those leaves.
You can raise cows on Kudzu? And it fixes nitrogen? That sounds pretty good actually!
That kind of thinking is how we got in this mess in the first place
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Not a single comment on that weed leaf that's on 4:20 ???? It's so on point
The president of The Invasive Plants Council probably thought that if we once again intentionally started to cultivate kudzu again, it would grow to be an even BIGGER issue for many states in the South.
But however, now that we have more advanced technology and have SEEN what Kudzu can do, wouldnt we be able to come up with a way to use it WITHOUT it getting out of control again?
Since kudzu is a deep rooted plant that spreads rapidly, wouldnt we be able to cultivate it inside greenhouses in large, deep growing beds that way it wouldnt spread by root in our native soil?
And with it being indoors in a CONTROLLED environment, when it flowers , seeds wont be dropped and sprout everywhere bc the only soil that is available for it to grow in are the growing beds and couldnt it be routinely deadheaded by workers to further make sure that it doesnt grow out of hand??
Now learning that the plant fixes nitrogen, grows readily, could feed live stock AND us, I think it would be a waste to not take advantage to this resource!! We just have to be a lot more careful this time
Don't count on people to be careful. In fact, you should count on the opposite
Greenhouses are expensive and kudzu has practically no economic value.
Look for Charlotte Kudzu. I have writen 2 songs about kudzu and the science of kudzu. My favorite song is "Kudzilla!"
The Book of Kudzu by William Shurtleff is free on Google Books as an ebook. Kudzu has 60 medicinal uses and there are recent and many modern peer reviewed journal articles published. Whew!
If there is a famine or zombie apocalypse people can live off kudzu alone. The roots, stems and leaves are all good for you and edible.
Amen ..so TRUE...The Wicked USA Government tells everyone to put Poison on them and Dandelion Plants & other Wild Vegetables eaten in China on a Daily basis....yet the Farmers market sells Dandelions for over $2.00 a bundle, as high as collard Greens.
Try it and get back to us...
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I’d love to watch livestock destroy kudzu patches. Maybe starting with Goats, then sheep, then maybe pigs because they dig up the roots and eat them? And if not hogs, we can harvest the root (much like the people in in the beginning of this video).
What kind of shredder was used?
When I lived in Gastonia NC it was taking over EVERYTHING!
Good presentation! Not sure about the paradigm shift toward kudzu…
People always talk about invasive species escaping their predators, or iin this case herbivores. But then we only talk about insects. We need to recognise that we humans have wiped out most of the megafauna that used to provide grazing and browsing pressure in the ecosystem. Without them munching along through the landscape plants like kudzu can run rampant.
We have also created lots of disturbed sites where pioneer plants like kudzu are perfectly adapted.
May l eat kudzu green leave or root ,what s side effects may occur in me when used up
easy, stick it into a biogas reactor and sell energy. Highway Energy!!!
This plant is terrible. I'm undergoing a major clearing project because it takes hold of trees and strangles them. In Georgia it can cost up to $3000 to have a single tree cut down. And I have a lot of trees. It thrives in all seasons because the roots are below the frost line. It's an invasive plant and the longer you let it go unchecked the more damage it will do.
This kid welded a big drill bit on the end of piece of pipe like plumbing rigid or electrical. He welded an inlet port on the side of the pipe at the top by a spindle he put in there (just a rod really). You could fab one up easily. You hook up the helium gas after you drill underground a ways it is supposed to really wipe out the kudzu from the gas.
How about using kudzu in a greendrink smoothie instead of kale?
Not on the list, but Wisteria is sold in stores and is not good either. IMO
Can the roots be cooked and eaten like a potato?
I love this plant too,I think it can solve desertification problem in my country,what do you think?
Just keep your goats handy just in case.
The feds strike again with their brilliant ideas...
and yet half the country consistently votes to give them more money and more control over our lives. It’s really a shame.
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Today I learned that a vibe environment is called a leona
Why is it not a problem in Asia? Here it actually enriches the soil.
The video tells you. No bio controls in the USA.
Because is common to harvest it for food and medicines, and it's a common livestock feed.
6:28:60 look like invasive sparrow
Is this plant good?? Im planing to buy a land . And has some kudzu
No
Do not buy that land unless you have a plan to use the plant and/or eventually remove all of the plant entirely.
It is extremely invasive and WILL smother any native vegetation.
Use the fact that the land is covered in kudzu to get a discount on the price. Personally I wouldn't care but some of the vines way down south are huge. I would imagine the roots are equally enormous.
@@FidelityElectric Only 400 pounds for a mature root. It ought to be a companion purchase for marijuana since it detoxes the chemicals marijuana has. Kudzu brownies will help control some of the problems of eating too many marijuana brownies.
Plus if you want to have rabbits that is free rabbit feed for them. Ours would binky whenever we gave them kudzu. www.google.com/books/edition/The_Book_of_Kudzu/jSQzR6_h9yEC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PP1&printsec=frontcover&fbclid=IwAR19k6zbfLt87weXKAtxOqrrOudASlScvxu7t-GzeG4hNPSC5kfMzuuJj_M
Why not feed them to cows too, actually?
Wonder why you didn't see her say "wow! This weed vine hot cocoa is delicious fam!". Hahaha
I don't know if you'll reply to this but what about GMO kudzu or grafting compatibility. Maybe it could accelerate the growth of vegetables along with producing more.
Why would you want kudzu to taste like broccoli when it already is similar in taste (leaves only) to snow peas? Kudzu has 60 medicinal uses and broccoli has one. ha!
@@CharlotteFairchild I think you are replying to the wrong person.
A test plot of kudzu was planted in Alabama on an agricultural control farm. They grew it for three years on the soil that was basically depleted and dead. After that they plowed the patch under and planted it with corn, sorghum etc and had exponentially larger yields with no additional fertilizer inputs for 10 years plus. This solidified how it can be used as a green manure. Also the guy who grew the world champion size tomatoes uses kudzu as his secret nitrogen green booster. Stuff is amazing.
@@xssidion6797 YHou asked about grafting?
Every transgene that has made it into soybean would probably work in the related kudzu given enough work. Although creating a pest-killing (Bt protein), Roundup-tolerating kudzu plant might put you on some sort of bioterrorist watchlist.
Looks like a yam/sweet potato
looks like yam yea, nothing like sweet potato though
Make some tinctures out of it and sell them on Etsy.
It's great to have that mindset but if it keeps to spread that doesn't make it okay. Controlling it as a weed comes way before using it at the cost of it expanding and destroying nature :(
There's enough alcoholics to keep it under control, as it helps you break the habit.
Has anyone actually tried to eat kudzu? Does it taste good?
The starch has been used as a thickener and for sweets in Japan for centuries. It's not really supposed to be eaten plain. Most of that comes from the roots, not the vine or leaves. The vines themselves aren't used for food, but for fiber to turn into textiles.
im sure the vegans can eat our way out of the kudzu. and then we can plant more kudzu. maybe even on alien worlds.
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Kudzu never ate the soil.
Why not set a little fire to it
kudzu is beautiful i love it
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Kudzu root is expensive in india. Export it ye damed monsters
5:05 wrong, we can eat our way out of it. You greatly underestimate how many humans there actually are lmao
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I'd rather watch the goats eat it all up.
Awesome
How bout we let kudzu choke out some bamboo? Let em Duke it out.
An epic battle of two samurais.
They’s probably team up
Nope it would mutate into something unstoppable
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Okay, fine. But now get back here and concentrate on my kudzu root. Enjoy!
Kudzu not kadzu
Use goats!
A bit like Asian carp. You hate it. Most other nations love it. It’s tasty. I love to eat carp, but there is non where I live.
Once someone figures out how to properly market it to the public, it will no longer be a problem.
I'm getting a couple of goats to help me out.
I hate privet
Moral Lesson: You can't trust the government to fix problems.
Did you send back your Trump stimulus checks then lol
@@LisaBeergutHolst Why would I get Trump stimulus checks if I'm a Filipino.