The Book of Kudzu

Kudzu is growing all over the public spaces where we live, especially in the south. Every day the papers are full of ads for animals that are being given away or neglected because the owners don't have enough money for feed. Kudzu could be used to save small farms and animals. We need to think outside the box and use this plant to our benefit and get people to harvest it from the public spaces. In the last depression a department of public works was created to give people jobs and it worked. We can do the same thing and Kudzu can be a part of the plan.The awful truth of the matter is that somebody is making money on our stupidity and apathy. They could use this plant to finish the animals before slaughter, instead of GMO corn and soy. MONSANTO profits from the GMO foods as they get us ready for their nightmare of a "trans-genetic world" in which they want to own the food chain. (To learn more about the dangers of GMO go to [...] and order THE WORLD ACCORDING TO MONSANTO.) We could use this plant to feed the poor and also sell it for profit. It is considered a great delicacy in Japan as well as an herbal remedy. You can even make cloth out of it! I would say it was right up there with hemp.This book was very interesting and I hope you will check it out and learn about Kudzu an important versatile plant.

It is my favorite Kudzu book. Asian people have been eating and using kudzu as medicine thousands of years for beneficial reasons. New research is easy to find that kudzu helps the liver and pancrease with detoxification. I hope everyone eats their greens and washes the kudzu bugs off with salt and uses black plastic and solar energy to manage kudzu instead of poisons!

Who would have thought....you can eat this stuff...I live in TN, lots of kudzu here, learning people make jelly, baskets and all kinds of things with this rapid 1 foot a day vine, interesting read.

Fits right in with the other Shurtleff/Aoyagi books, giving a thorough insight into the lore and use of this exceptional food product. All these resource books should be made available in Kindle format for a new generation.-Thomas

Lots of great info.

Great book for a plant that most people don't even know is edible.

This is a short little book with a surprising amount of information in it. I found it quite an interesting book.

This little book was just too cute and full of little tidbits for usages. Brought a chuckle just looking through it.