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June 5, 2007
News from Home - Goats for Kudzu Control
The city of Chattanooga is using goats to eat kudzu on Missionary Ridge. I think that's a lovely idea - but folk wisdom teaches that animal flesh fed on kudzu is green, so this is not going to be a closed-loop system. Maybe the kids will be unaffected - they're tastiest, anyway!
I used to park next to a stand of kudzu at a summer job (and I was always a little afraid the car would be taken before I came out in the afternoon), but I learned then that kudzu flowers smell like grape jelly. Not grapes, grape jelly, a freshly popped jar of Smucker's grape jelly.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at June 5, 2007 6:46 AM
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Oh yeah; I'd read about this a year or so ago. My sons actually ate fried kudzu at church camp in Mississippi, proving once again that anything fried in a little olive oil and salt is edible.
Posted by: 1050 lb. at June 5, 2007 9:44 AM
I've also read that this is the only real way to keep Kudzu under control: Goats. An extract of Kudzu, oddly enough, is supposed to dramatically increase the effects of Alcohol, which, the naive researches claimed, might help people drink less...
Posted by: D.Moore at June 5, 2007 1:07 PM
Actually, it increases the effect of alcohol, making a little go a lot further.
Makes cheap drunks out of anyone, so better for the liver -and- the pocketbook.
Posted by: Tagalong at June 19, 2009 1:39 AM