Love Them to Death: Turning Invasive Plants into Local Economic Opportunities
Editat de Wendy L. Applequisten Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 mar 2025
This peer-reviewed, edited volume brings together writings by a diverse group of independent professionals, academics, and artisans, with expertise in a wide range of plant uses—for food and drink, herbal medicines, basketry, livestock forage, biofuel, structural materials, paper, and dyes. From cultural and ecological examinations to practical applications, Love Them to Death looks at troublesome species as resources that might be safely and thoughtfully exploited.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781935641315
ISBN-10: 193564131X
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 49 color plates, 2 halftones, 1 map
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: Missouri Botanical Garden Press
Colecția Missouri Botanical Garden Press
ISBN-10: 193564131X
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 49 color plates, 2 halftones, 1 map
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: Missouri Botanical Garden Press
Colecția Missouri Botanical Garden Press
Notă biografică
Wendy L. Applequist, an associate scientist in the Missouri Botanical Garden’s William L. Brown Center, is a plant taxonomist with interests in medicinal plants, nomenclature, and the flora of Madagascar. She is the author of The Identification of Medicinal Plants: A Handbook of the Morphology of Botanicals in Commerce.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: When Kudzu Ate the South, Why Didn’t the South Eat Kudzu?
Katie Carter King
Chapter 2: Welcome to the Green Food Zone: Wild Taro (Colocasia esculenta)
Peter J. Matthews, Mohammad Anwar Hossain & Van Dzu Nguyen
Chapter 3: A Brief Biography of Itadori: Re-storyation as an Approach to Japanese Knotweed Management
Tusha Yakovleva
Chapter 4: Cooking with Invasive Species: Culinary Suggestions for Promoting Control through Consumption
Alana N. Seaman & Alexia Franzidis
Chapter 5: Can We Love Invasive Species to Death?
Sara E. Kuebbing, Joshua Ulan Galperin & Martin A. Nuñez
Chapter 6: Turn Your Livestock into Weed Managers
Kathy Voth
Chapter 7: Invasive Plants Used in Chinese Medicine
Thomas Avery Garran
Chapter 8: Some Invasive Species of Demonstrated Medicinal Value
Wendy L. Applequist
Chapter 9: Invasive Common Reed as Valuable Bio-Resource: Lessons Learned from Europe
Franziska Eller
Chapter 10: Remediation as Harvest: Invasive Plant Species as Building Materials
Katie MacDonald & Kyle Schumann
Chapter 11: An Ethic of Care in Basketry: Weaving with Invasive Vines
Katie Grove
Chapter 12: Invasive Color: Using Invasive Species as Natural Dyes
Theresa Hornstein
Chapter 13: Fiber Optics: Do Invasive Species Look Good on Paper?
James Ojascastro
Contributors
Introduction
Chapter 1: When Kudzu Ate the South, Why Didn’t the South Eat Kudzu?
Katie Carter King
Chapter 2: Welcome to the Green Food Zone: Wild Taro (Colocasia esculenta)
Peter J. Matthews, Mohammad Anwar Hossain & Van Dzu Nguyen
Chapter 3: A Brief Biography of Itadori: Re-storyation as an Approach to Japanese Knotweed Management
Tusha Yakovleva
Chapter 4: Cooking with Invasive Species: Culinary Suggestions for Promoting Control through Consumption
Alana N. Seaman & Alexia Franzidis
Chapter 5: Can We Love Invasive Species to Death?
Sara E. Kuebbing, Joshua Ulan Galperin & Martin A. Nuñez
Chapter 6: Turn Your Livestock into Weed Managers
Kathy Voth
Chapter 7: Invasive Plants Used in Chinese Medicine
Thomas Avery Garran
Chapter 8: Some Invasive Species of Demonstrated Medicinal Value
Wendy L. Applequist
Chapter 9: Invasive Common Reed as Valuable Bio-Resource: Lessons Learned from Europe
Franziska Eller
Chapter 10: Remediation as Harvest: Invasive Plant Species as Building Materials
Katie MacDonald & Kyle Schumann
Chapter 11: An Ethic of Care in Basketry: Weaving with Invasive Vines
Katie Grove
Chapter 12: Invasive Color: Using Invasive Species as Natural Dyes
Theresa Hornstein
Chapter 13: Fiber Optics: Do Invasive Species Look Good on Paper?
James Ojascastro
Contributors
Recenzii
"Love Them to Death provides a remarkable shift in the 'traditional' perspective on invasive species. While we have been brought up to consider invasive plants as foes, this book makes a powerful case for shifting the paradigmatic landscape of invasive species, by providing a series of well-written and researched chapters on the potential utilitarian value that they can provide. People who eat such plants are termed invasivores, and the book provides examples of many other types of uses—building materials, medicines, biomass, fodder, and in artistry—based on species that have been at best ignored and at worst considered our enemies. Congratulations to the editor and chapter authors who have reshaped our thinking and understanding of this complex but fascinating topic."
“This book is more than a compendium on wild invasive plants, it’s a great introduction for communities to explore the weeds around them for use in everything from food to structures.”