[MPWG] eat the weeds
Danna J. Leaman
djl at green-world.org
Wed Feb 2 16:21:08 CST 2005
Thanks to Bob for pointing out the risk of inadvertently contributing to the
spread of alien invasive plants by promoting their edibility. While I
appreciate the conservation intent, I doubt that it will be effective as a
conservation/eradication measure, and might also undermine hard-won progress
on public perception of the severity and urgency of the problem.
Danna Leaman
Chair, IUCN-SSC Medicinal Plant Specialist Group
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Beyfuss" <rlb14 at cornell.edu>
To: <MPWG at lists.plantconservation.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 4:40 PM
Subject: [MPWG] eat the weeds
>I think eating weeds is a good idea, many of them are far more nutritious
>than their cultivated counterparts, i.e. dandelion. I will send her lots of
>recipes from an Extension bulletin I wrote in 1977. I am not so sure
>publishing recipes for invasive plants is a good idea. The reason we have
>some of these plants today is because they were purposely introduced as
>food crops for us or cattle, i.e., Kudzu. As recently as last year I saw
>garlic mustard seed for sale in a catalogue as an edible green.
> Bob
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