[MPWG] eat the weeds

Thu Feb 3 01:20:30 CST 2005

Thanks Fred for sharing your views.

I have observed that the native plant of one part growing in new place has been declared as problematic plant.Through the process of knowledge sharing we can give benefits to the world community.

For example Ipomoea carnea is not a native to India.It was introduced as green manure crop and later became problematic weed.Living with this alien plant upto long time the natives have developed its many uses.In many parts its leaves as consumed as curry.The latex is giving good results in Leucoderma. Similarly Lantana is also not our plant.You will find its name in the list of problemtaic weed but the natives have developed its many uses.

These uses will be of great help for the people of region from where Ipomoea and Lantana have originated and enjoying the status of useful plant.The knowledge about these plants present in these regions can be more benefical for the natives of India facing these plants as weeds. The plants reached to other countries from India can be managed and utilized through the knowledge present in India.It is all the matter of knowledge sharing and positive approach to make the world healthy and free from chemicals.

I am forwarding a research article giving details of attitude towards exotic weed.
Exotic Weeds are Not A Problem For The Traditional Healers.
http://www.ecoport.org/perl/ecoport15.pl?SearchType=earticleView&earticleId=498 

regards

Pankaj Oudhia

Center for Sustainable Resources <sustainableresources at hotmail.com> wrote:
Bob, I have to disagree with with your statement about concern over using 
unwanted plants that you refer to as "invasive". Actually that is what needs 
to happen and will eventually happen with all of these plants at some point. 
They will become useful. If you go back far enough eliminating plants viewed 
as invasive at some point there would be no plants in north america. Lets 
not discriminate also. We need to get rid of apples, brown trout, tomatoes, 
cabbage, and on and on. What we are really talking about is a political 
system applied to nature that puts political timelines on species which have 
always moved about with or without mans help. When plants first arrive on 
new land they become dense monocultures and can at first cause havic. 
Eventually they come under control and just add to the biodiversity. If you 
really think about it you will realize that is true. Nature finds ways to 
bring things back into line.
As a knifemaker I use all sorts of materials and my favorite is multiflora 
rose. This past weekend I sold three hunting knives with multiflora grips. 
It is a truly beautiful wood with exotic grain and it is very hard. I am 
running out on this farm between this use and the fact that both cattle and 
goats eat it. It is very high in protein as a forage. The deer like it also. 
It helps as successional plants in old fields returning to forest and then 
it gets shaded out as the canopy develops. These do gooders will do far more 
harm and waste a lot of time and money killing such plants than any harm it 
could ever cause. The problem with the presence of too many of any kind of 
plant has more to do with poor land management than anything. As a 
certified educator of Holistic Resource Management certain principles apply 
that are unchanged over the eons. The way these plants behave is nothing 
new. Fred Hays

>From: Bob Beyfuss 
>To: MPWG at lists.plantconservation.org
>Subject: [MPWG] eat the weeds
>Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 16:40:45 -0500
>
>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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