Today’s batch of burning questions, my smart-aleck answers and the real deal: Question: Thank goodness the kudzu season is over for a few months. I know it is classified as an invasive plant, but most ...

Kudzu, a medicinal plant, has long thought to reduce alcohol dependence, but the precise mechanism remains a mystery. Recent research shows that pre-treatment with kudzu extract had little to no ...

The first time David Cozzo, an ethnobotanist specializing in medicinal plants, saw kudzu, he was on a back road driving through the Piedmont region of North Carolina. Kudzu-choked trees loomed out of ...

DIGGING DEEP: Permaculture educator Justin Holt excavates kudzu roots in North Asheville. Holt will share techniques for harvesting, processing and cooking with the roots of the fast-growing vine at ...

In the Southeast, you'll find kudzu draping the scenery off the side of the interstate. You'll find kudzu climbing that abandoned barn in your neighbor's backyard. And if you sit long enough in one ...