Sam, when I lived in the South (we moved out west thirty-six years ago), nothing good could be said for kudzu; it was reputed to be of no value in controlling erosion, and it was not valued as cattle feed. Apparently, since I came out here, much work (such as that which George Washington Carver did with peanuts) has been done with kudzu, and it has been found to have some value, after all. I put “kudzu” into my search engine, and came up with many entries, one of which (Wikipedi