Kudzu Reference, kudzu endorsement

This weekend, Sept. 27, I am going to Kudzu Kollege to learn how to kill kudzu food without poison. This is what I would like every county to do to manage the kudzu. It would be nice to teach people how to eat kudzu. There are too many hungry people today! 

This scientist tells me he has no desire to use kudzu, but he is sharing my information with people because he recognizes the science, and the 2,000,000 sites for kudzu food. He is referring people to me for uses of kudzu.

rom james miller to charfair@bellsouth.net date Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 2:05 PM subject Another Kudzu User mailed-by svatlsmtp001.r8.fs.fed.us

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Charolette,
I have a letter from a new southern immigrant that wants to learn to use
kudzu. She wrote me a letter. XXXXXXXX XXXXXXX is her contact info.
Would you consider calling her and sharing what you know so well?
Thanks, Jim


James H. Miller, Ph.D., Research Ecologist
Insect, Disease, and Invasive Plant Research
USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station
520 Devall Drive, Auburn, AL 36849
334-826-8700 ext. 36 Fax: 334-821-0037
email: jmiller01@fs.fed.us
http://www.srs.fs.fed.us/4105

Kudzu is a resource, and if not used, a polluter

I have links to DTN and to the sites for Asian Soybean rust in my links list. What happens when antifungal chemicals are put on 53+ million acres of soybeans in the US and then we eat the product that has had antifungal chemicals?

Not very organic, and the residual effects of antifungal chemicals have been studied with how many animals?

What about research on antifungal chemicals and animals and their fertility/sterility?

It would be resourceful if people looked at a resource and not a nuisance because then it would be managed but benefit the world.

Email if you would like a copy of the Chokolate Kudzu Krok Pot Kake

Kudzu Bread with persimmon and salmon

The salmon is pink and the persimmon is orange. It isn't quite ripe, but it isn't bad. I like tart things. The kudzu may not give that much additional nutrition, but I don't know about cooked kudzu. The only studies are for roots, except as fodder for farm animals, that I have seen. Has anyone seen any nutritional studies for greens for humans? If someone is hungry, it is surprising what they will try and it is surprising what they will eat. Don't ever make coffee jello, and don't ever eat pumpkin raw--unless it is dehydrated maybe.
Buckwheat is great for insulin resistance. The only place I order it now is: http://store.honeyvillegrain.com/

Persimmon Jam Recipe, to complement kudzu bread

Learning what we can eat and what we cannot eat is part of learning about kudzu?

After reading Wildman Steve Brill, I looked at the ingredients I had, and figured out a different way to make a spread. I won't call them jams.

With sugar:
I cleaned some almost ripe persimmons. I used them instead of ripe persimmons because of the sugar content. I boiled them for a couple of hours in water to keep the sugars down. Then I strained the juice added sugar and dry tea from half a tea bag from Stash peppermint tea, pumpkin spice and five cups of sugar and simmered the juice that had been strained for a while--and I did add fresh lemon juice. Ripe persimmons don't pull away from the seed like almost ripe persimmons. The best way to seed a persimmon is in the mouth, but since we live in a germ aware world, I did it with clean fingers. I didn't have coriander, so I used what I had. I will upload what this Diabetic inducing spread looks like. Believe me, I won't lose weight on it. I have now purchased coriander, so I need to find more kudzu. If you want seeds that are raw, please email me and I will give you info for the seeds.


Without sugar:
The pulp was in one bowl and I picked out the seeds. I processed the pulp with 1/2 a peppermint from a bag, stevia and pumpkin pie spice since I didn't have coriander. I added water and lemon and I am freezing most of it. I really like it on salty things, and the stevia and salt don't fight each other to me. Whatever is alkaline and keeps me healthy! The bread above
has kudzu bread, salmon and persimmon spread.

Kudzu or kuzu leaf

Air drying the kudzu or kuzu, would you throw away the fiber?

Would you microwave the kuzu or kudzu to dehydrate?

Would you freeze the kuzu or kudzu leaf after you strain the processed leaves?

Have you ever tasted kudzu tea?

What plant is sweeter than kudzu? Stevia?

Kudzu Kollege, Kudzu College

If we kill all the kudzu in the US, what will we do in a famine? Eat corn? How efficient is it to grow corn compared to kudzu? Which has more protein?

The things you can learn at Kudzu Kollege are fascinating. It was worth the trip that weekend there was no fuel country wide last fall.

Kuzu and Kudzu alcohol research

I have added some of the previous research that was listed on the links. Going to Google and doing a Google Scholar search with the key terms [kudzu human alcohol studies] in different order will help you find the latest research.

Why is the root studied, and the greens and vine left out of the study? The root takes 100 pounds to make 6 pounds of dried powder. There is much more labor involved than in harvesting leaves. Leaves don't take any trouble at all.

See 100+ Kudzu Kwestions below.

kudzu brownies (Betty Crocker Fudge Brownies)

The leaves above are Japanese maple leaves for decoration and one kudzu leaf for decoration, and then kudzu for ingredient. I am having fun with all the illegal people out there! Instead of getting high, you can detox with a sense of humor!

Kudzu can be eaten raw if you take the leaf off the veins and chew it. The US Dept. of Agriculture says it has twice the protein that alfalfa has and is high in nutrition. You can use the veins as dental floss.

I don't recommend this for weight loss. To add nutrition and fiber to brownies, and have a lot of fun and give people a topic of conversation at any shindig, add one cup of strained kudzu with no additional liquid, unless you want to substitute kudzu juice (see other recipe) for the water shown in the last picture. Directions on the box.

This is a much more moist brownie than usual, and may need more cooking time. I used two boxes because I don't have smaller containers, yet.

As long as the leaf is pretty, I use it. When the fibers are in short pieces, they do not detract from the brownies, or salmon or wrap fillings. I cut the veins to make sure the fibers are short with scissors or a knife. I talked to William Shurtleff Oct. 2, and he thought I used just tender tiny leaves. More nutrition is in dark vegetables!

Alcohol

Think about it. When someone has the flu, how badly does that person want to get better? Does it make a difference in the nasea, the fever, the diarhea with how badly someone wants to get better?

When someone has pickled their liver and their brain, how great is their judgement? I don't want a drunk person baby sitting someone I love or driving anyone whether I know the passenger or not.

So when I tell someone that kudzu can help get a handle on the cravings, and make a difference in the success, I am not surprised when someone tells me they have a relative who is living with them and using kudzu and doing well. This happened at the farmers' market in Dallas, Georgia last week. I am used to people coming and talking to me about being diabetic, or having cancer, and I tell them to use kudzu but try the free stuff first. This was the first time I heard an alcohol recovery success. And even if it lasts for a short time, it was a short time they would not have had with sanity.

Bill W., who started AA said that we have to raise the bottom. What I think he means by that is not wait until people are breathing their last to offer a helping hand, whether that hand be with some good old kudzu juice (see recipe below) or store bought stuff.

On a lighter note, I made kudzu blossom jelly yesterday, and I used white flour for tortillas. Being broke, I decided to try the white unbleached flour since it is 1/3 to 1/4 the price of buckwheat. So what did I do last night? Gas beyond belief. I woke myself up four times last night! I also became very bloated during the day. It just is not worth it to eat white flour when gluten intolerant. My throat hurts and I have drainage, too. I am a firm believer I would gain all 110 pounds back if I continued with white flour.

What amazes me is that UAB is just catching up to China. Harvard is just catching up to China. And they are only catching up with China on two or three little puny studies so that they can make money with pharmaceuticals! They aren't doing this and telling people to use the free stuff! Think about what is available to make a difference and don't always try to make as much money as possible. The money will flow once people get healing.

www.phmiracleliving.com can be used to help health, but using their books and program can be prohibitive. To consult with the doctor is $225.00 for 15 minutes! He doesn't address kudzu, either, yet!

The jelly turned out much better than last year! I drank lots of kudzu juice and had some of the kudzu jelly on the tortillas. It didn't make a dent in the gas, though. It was a fun experiment, but not one I need to do every day! Tomorrow there will be no gas, because the fibers from kudzu will clean out my digestive tract. For recipes either check out the web or look at other posts on my blog. I use kudzu fiber in salmon, buckwheat wraps, and salads. The juice comes from my blender, the fiber from the strainings. I have pictures for the recipe.

Kudzu blender juice is 5/13/2007

There are pictures.

Charlotte Fairchild recommends Kuzu Chaos!

Another book! Kudzu Chaos by Jennifer Holloway Lambe, illustrated by Alison Davis Lyne, ISBN 1-58980-157-1 and published by Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.

A beautiful kiddy lit book filled with vivid watercolor (I think) images of a little boy who helps save a town from being eaten up by kudzu with the help of a hill billy named Kudzu Katie.

Connect/disconnect

Hi!

http://www.stopsoybeanrust.com/viewStory.asp?StoryID=1041 Asian Soybean Rust site.

If you were a scientist and knew all about the botanical nature of kudzu, the problems it presents, and the poisons it needs, would you know that there are 180,000 sites for kudzu recipes? Nope!

If you were an agronomist, and knew deforestation from kudzu is a major problem, would you know about the effects of the poisons on people eating kudzu when the ground had been poisoned the year before?

If you were a scientist, and knew about Asian Soybean Rust coming in 2005 with Hurricane Ivan, would you have any clue about the effects of ingested fungus, or the fungus infesting large amounts of plant surrounding public libraries, post offices, and homes? The spores can't be good for people with emphysemia or asthma, can it? I mean, there is a lot of kudzu out there in the south!

The connection will come when people who poison kudzu put warning notices just like yards get when there is a toxin that could hurt someone--but it won't be for three days, since most poisons ingested take a little longer for their half life.

The connection will come when people are educated that after they go to the food pantry for their mac and cheese, they can get kudzu and have something fresh, organic, and full of more nutrition than the mac and cheese, and it isn't charity.

The connection will come when people realize that patients coming in with asthma and emphysemia possibly exacerbated by fungus spores on 5 acres of kudzu surrounding their house where they sleep with the windows up at night, or don't change the filter, that no matter how much oxygen or steroids they receive, they won't get better until the goats eat the kudzu before infestation of fungus gets bad.

There are a lot more connections regarding kudzu.

Kudzu Blender Juice (c) 2007

The kudzu is alive, and no ASR yet!

Whatever leaves you get, make sure you cut them with scissors or a knife into smaller pieces. No vines included unless they are really tender, and the tips. Wash/rinse leaves and shoot tips with water. Cut Kudzu or slice coarsely Equal amount of water and kudzu in the blender Blend on high until finely blended Strain and drink the juice with stevia or sweetener or salt Use the strained kudzu in your sandwiches, especially salmon, or mixed with garlic or mixed with mint.

Don't use any leaf that is discolored or spotted or powdery. Use only the healthy leaves and shoots.

Asian Soybean Rust is a fungus. ASR is not a good thing.

This picture is by the New Georgia library north of Villa Rica.

Resources for Kudzu

http://dtnag.com/dtnag/common/link.do?contentId=70011&parentId=-1 DTN is all about agriculture and commerce.

Jim Miller works with Auburn and the US Forrest Service, do a Google for contact info.

Create a Google Alert for Kudzu. You will get literary kudzu, but also a variety of science.

www.kokudzu.com for a non poisonous, actually many methods for getting rid of kudzu! They experiment, so it is really useful for 4 H, and science!

William Shurtleff wrote a book about kudzu available on Amazon 30 years ago. The universities are beginning to publish studies on things like alcohol consumption Asian medicine has used for thousands of year with Kudzu. Great book, great references and resources.

Edith Edwards, Juanita Baldwin, Nancy Basket all use kudzu in the kitchen and have published articles and recipes.

The Foundation Center is great for looking for grants for research of kudzu. There are Foundation Libraries, and satelite libraries, and a membership if you are really serious for online research.

Google Scholar, Francis and Taylor publications (more than 800) and Scienteur are all sources of research--but not all free.

Things like www.freecycle.org or www.gigoit.org can help get some things free--and who knows if it will help the experiementers out there?



I have a song that is copyrighted. I am not a 501(3)c yet, but I will have a 501 (3)c soon. Maybe I am too far out there for people to make donations. 

Charlotte Fairchild pictures

October 2006
Has the U.S. Dpartment of Agriculture analyzed the nutrients in Kudzu?

Do you know how to contact Charlotte for recipes? fertileprayers "at" yahoo dot com 

Kudzu Kwestions

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Have you ever asked yourself what you know about kudzu?

Are there a lot of people in The South who know a whole lot about kudzu?

Who hates kudzu?

If willow can be used for dream catchers, why can't kudzu?

Who would you contact about the medicinal uses but a Chinese herbalist?

'daniel.davidson@dtn.com.' Dan wrote an article about how Rust skips around and deposits spores during rain events from the upper strata of the Earth's air system.

I read the article about the spread of the rust with much interest.

I don’t understand how the rust also effects kudzu, and why, since it is related to the sweet pea. (What does a sweat pea taste like, anyway?)

What is the history of the rust in South America?
Would planting something different be the answer for a few years, or will the spores last for decades in the air system?
Can more “green” methods be used to control rust, like baking soda? Rosarians routinely use baking soda and olive oil applications to control fungus on rose leaves.
Is kudzu resistant to ASR (Asian Soybean Rust—a fungus), or is it just too difficult to establish because there is so much to test?

Can the rhizome of kudzu be eaten raw?

Can cogon grass have nutrition in the rhizome anything like kudzu?

Is corn more nutritious than kudzu?

Would ASR possibly control or inhibit kudzu?
If kudzu is resistant to ASR, then is anyone trying to find out why?Did anyone lose crop yield by the rust (soybean crop, not kudzu)?
If so, what is their response, and are they still in farming, and what are their plans for crops?
This information might make other people take it more seriously without being alarmist. This information might change views of “crying wolf” by people who were in the “skip” zone last year?
How the rust looks?
Is Asian Soybean Rust easy to identify and where are pictures?
Would fungus would have a deleterious effect on my health since I am allergic to mold and mildew/yeast because of overuse of antibiotics as a child?
Are there studies about ingestion of soybeans/kudzu with ASR?
How large are the roots?

Can anyone dig up a crown of kudzu?

Is it good for a hangover, and are there studies?
Where did it come from, and why is it in this country (whichever country you see it)?
What can people do with it?
How do people control it?
What is under it?
Is it edible?Can you think of more questions about kudzu?
Do you know any songs about kudzu?

Do animals eat kudzu?

Do goats eat kudzu?

Will dogs eat kudzu with olive oil and cut up a lot?

www.kokudzu.com A kind way to control kudzu.
How do you make Kudzu blossom jelly (easily found with a Google search)?
Do artists use kudzu?
Why can't we use it to decorate for the holidays?
Is there more spinach or kudzu in the United States?
Can it be crossed with something more useful to make a more useful plant?
What are the natural enemies to kudzu?
What would happen if we poisoned all of the kudzu in the United States?
What would happen if we used kudzu for useful and positive purposes?
Did Rip Van Winkle fall asleep under kudzu? If he had, could we find him?
Are large topiaries ever used for kudzu?
How much oxygen does kudzu produce?
Are kudzu baskets long lasting?
Are there any kudzu books?
Why doesn't a kudzu book have a shelf in every library?
Do I know a kudzu expert?
What does it take to be a kudzu expert?
Are there kudzu klubs?
Kudzu organizations?
Kudzu parties?
Kudzu police, or kudzu competitions?
Kudzu beauty pageants?
If I had to think of a new use for kudzu, what would it be?
Are there kudzu jokes?
Can kudzu excite people enough to form organizations (like the Red Hat Society, or Boy Scouts)?
How does kudzu tea taste, and how is it made (check Google)?
What did the Southern USA look like before kudzu?
Have you ever had a kudzu nightmare? Can you tell us about it?
Why is a kudzu leaf hairy?
Can it hurt bovine because of its high protein?
How spiritual is a plant?
Do you know any websites about kudzu besides this one?
Have you ever done a search on kudzu?
Have you ever talked to a scientist studying kudzu?
If kudzu is high in estrogen, then what will it do for fertility?
Are there scientists who are doing beneficial things with kudzu (not including eradication?)!?
If there are people who use kudzu to survive, why isn't there more information about it? Why don't people know about it?
Can you think of any other kwestions? If so, please comment!
Windy Hill Senior Center friends asked these questions:
Will it make me live longer?
What could kudzu be used for other than jelly or tea?
Could it be cooked like greens?
Are people allergic to it?
Why is it a blood thinner?
If it could be made into gasoline what are they waiting for?
Why has it taken so long to find all of these uses for kudzu?
Where did it originate?
Can you cook it as a vegetable?
Can you use it in a dip?
Why do you have to go to the woods since it grows along the highways?
Will it help you to live longer?
Will it make your skin glow?
Can you use it as a laxative?
Will it make you smarter?
Will it make your nails grow?
Will it help you sleep longer?
Will it make your eyes blue?
Will it make your hair curly?
Will it make you lose weight?
How fast does it grow?
How do you kill or get rid of it?
Who brought it to America?
Does it bloom?
How deep do the roots go?
What makes anyone interested in Kudzu?
Is it like hemp when making cloth?
How many different types are there?
Where can we purchase kudzu jelly?
What does kudzu taste like? (peas?)
Can they marry it to grapes or something tastier?
Who is studying kudzu’s genetics/dna/properties?
How much Oxygen is supplied by kudzu in the Southern US?
Are there famous songs with kudzu?
Who besides Socrates would ask questions about kudzu?
Which is easier to grow, seeds of kudzu or roots?
Is kudzu used by naturopathic doctors?
Is anyone using it for pottery? (design or something else?)
Could it be used as a dye for fabrics/cloth?

Does the vine give as much color as the leaf when dying shirts?

Does the root give any color to dying cloth as the above ground growth?

Does anyone use poison ivy because they can't tell the difference from kudzu?

How many veterans who are homeless can benefit from kudzu and Agent Orange or alcohol or because they are hungry?

Can you think of ways to eat kudzu in regular recipes like brownies, meatloaf, oatmeal?

Does kudzu make NO, N2O, and NO2 and why is that important?

Does kudzu make ozone?

What does NO do for Viagra that it doesn't do for kudzu?

Is there a Wikipedia site for kudzu, and does it mention famine?

Who is the Wizard of Oz for kudzu?

Who knows more than anyone about kudzu?

How much kudzu root for each medical problem should be enough?

Can you overdose on kudzu?

Can you over do kudzu consumption?

How many questions can you think of about kudzu?

If we use all the kudzu for ethanol, what will we eat during a severe drought?

Does the Ag business have anything that is drought tolerant?

How many food pantries know about kudzu?

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Kudzu Covered (c) 2006 Charlotte Fairchild

Kudzu Covered Land song (c) 2006 Charlotte Fairchild

Kudzu covered land or Tarzan vine clad trees
Simple superweed
Some see barren land 'cept for animals with needs

The oxygen, nitrogen, vitamins and science of this plant
It seems a nuisance, yet it's free food?
One day our survival may be placed on Kudzu?

Spinach covered land or Popeye vine clad trees?
How much more would we poison something giving us our air to breathe?
Shapes of elephants, roots of whale like glee

Alcohol consumption cut in half by Puerarin?
Fodder, baskets, breast enhancers, blossom jelly, kudzuthanol?
What more could you ask of a weed?

Kudzu covered land or Tarzan vine clad trees,
Can you smoke it?
Weed to some, but not to me.

It holds a future treasure, and perhaps our survival.

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September 2008, the children of the Boys and Girls Club of Douglasville, Georgia experienced kudzu brownies, kudzu cake, kudzu juice, kudzu leaves, kudzu seeds and kudzu blossoms, and the kudzu song. It was fun.

Posted by Charlotte Fairchild at 2:18 PM 0 comments 

This story is about a little boy moving to Georgia with his recently divorced mother and finding a friend in an older man who buries a puppy, Mason, the little boy, tries to save from getting hit by a car. A million animals a week are killed by cars in the US, and so the story continues with the relationship of the man approaching 80, and the little boy in third grade through ups and downs in their friendship. Kudzu is not the name of any of the dogs, but where the quest for the puppies takes place, and how the puppies survive. There are many shots of the two main characters in kudzu while green and kudzu during die back after just a little freeze. As a movie, it will leave children and adults with a good feeling that hope and perseverance are worthwhile, although it isn't the slick and perfect movie that Hollywood produces. It felt more comfortable and real because it wasn't so slick and perfect, if that makes any sense.

Always look for Kudzu kwestions, the very first and oldest blog on this kudzus.blogspot.com site. I am always adding questions!

I went to Doraville on MARTA September 24, and went to Cindy's Herbs and also to Rio Acupuncture. Cindy gave me a lot of useful information and some really pretty kudzu root. At Rio Acupuncture I received some herbs that will help dampness and my spleen.

This was the day of the GM strike, which ended the next day or two.

I took water and fruit to share with any homeless people I could meet but I didn't meet any. I did tell a striking worker about kudzu being edible. There is kudzu near the GM plant.

Can you imagine if people who were alcoholic and homeless started chewing kudzu and did a detox of their livers and became healthier and less hungry how it would affect the world? What if the poor and low income of the world added green kudzu to dishes and boosted their immune system and had less health problems? What if women used kudzu as an anti-coagulant and became less inclined to hysterectomy so that hysterectomy dropped from 25% to 5%? And then what if the effects of the anti-coagulation made heart and strokes lower? What if the world was transformed by eating free foods that are organic and raw and in abundance like kudzu? Starch gets old fast, and most of the Third World countries subsist off starches. Knowing what better nutrition greens can be, and the diversity of raw and cooked greens makes kudzu a creative choice for better health.

Drug Digest (google scholar) has info about drug interactions and properties of kudzu, including only a few.

The Japanese Times had a great article about kudzu in America.http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/eo20070528hs.html

Just remember Asian Soybean Rust when you look at kudzu. What may happen with this fungus? What are the possiblities?

Are there studies about what happens if people ingest or breathe fungus spores from a plant as dense as kudzu that just might be surrounding someone's house or place of business, or library?