[MPWG] eat the weeds

[Steven Foster]

Fred et al.,

I don't know if you should eat Ailanthus, but a range of economic uses  
can be found in the following publication:

  Hu, Shiu-Ying. 1979. Ailanthus. Arnoldia 39(2):29-50.

Best wishes,
Steven Foster

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On Feb 3, 2005, at 2:37 PM, Center for Sustainable Resources wrote:

> They all have a use and a purpose . It is that simple. I have been  
> trying to figure out how to use ailanthus. Foresters have made the  
> claim that it can't be used as wood because it ruins saw blades. I  
> have already figured out that that is not true but it is soft wood and  
> it stinks. It is not wanted because other trees presently available  
> have better qualities. However something that can grow thirty foot a  
> year could be valuable with even one good common use. Fred hays
>
>> From: pankaj oudhia <pankajoudhia at yahoo.com>
>> To: MPWG at lists.plantconservation.org
>> Subject: Re: [MPWG] eat the weeds
>> Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 06:19:14 +0000 (GMT)
>>
>> Bob thanks for initiating discussion on my favorite aspect.
>>
>> Instead of using word weed we can use the wild plants. Because when  
>> we use weed the researchers afraid of invasives come forward.
>>
>> In my region the utilization of weeds is not resulting in spread of  
>> these species.The natives are using it as curry, the healers are  
>> using at as medicine and the farmers are earning additional income by  
>> uprooting and selling it to local traders.This concept is known as  
>> Management through Utilization. I have written over 400 research  
>> articles on medicinal weeds .Also much on herbal dishes prepared from  
>> weedy species.Please read this article
>> Traditional medicinal knowledge about common weeds used as potherbs  
>> (Bhaji) in Chhattisgarh, India
>> http://www.botanical.com/site/column_poudhia/11_potherbs.html
>>
>> You can get more articles from
>> http://www.iprng.org/IPRNG_MTAW.html
>> or simply search medicinal weed or medicinal weeds at google.com ,you  
>> will get the articles in third number.
>>
>> regards
>> Pankaj Oudhia
>> http://www.pankajoudhia.com
>>
>> Bob Beyfuss <rlb14 at cornell.edu> wrote:
>> 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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