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TM7

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Grasses...
« on: November 16, 2011, 09:39:06 AM »
BTW...it is my undertanding that none of the grass faimily is poisonous.....tender young grasses are quite edible. Most noteable are the juices from wheat and barley grass which fetch a premium in healthfood stores...nice licorice flavor.  I have a grass juicer...very handy for extracting nourishment from a large variety of leafy plants...will keep you alive, rich in nutrients, minerals, and enzymes.
 
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Re: Grasses...
« Reply #1 on: November 16, 2011, 10:00:17 AM »
Isn't it amazing the things you walk by, or step on, on a day to day basis turn out to be edible plants that could help save you in a crisis situation.
 
TM7 is this grass juicer a portable item, or something that stays at home?
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Re: Grasses...
« Reply #2 on: December 09, 2011, 06:45:30 AM »
  Sorghum grasses, which includes johnson grass, sometimes turn toxic. The new growth after a frost has prussic acid (cyanide), so when sudan grass, for example, is double cropped after soybeans for pasture or a hay crop, the stubble is usually tilled under before frost.
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« Reply #3 on: December 09, 2011, 07:32:06 AM »
Don't know if Alphalpha is a grass but isn't it toxic at some young growth stages? ear
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Re: Grasses...
« Reply #4 on: December 12, 2011, 03:17:45 PM »
 The roots of the mature alfalfa plant produce endotoxins which only kills the young plants. So to get more than a sporadic stand, it needs tilled under and a whole new crop sowed.
  Sometimes sweet clover turns toxic if it molds.
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Re: Grasses...
« Reply #5 on: August 29, 2012, 04:34:42 AM »
Are'nt the roots of almost all grasses eatable? 
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