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RE: If you like them, craft them! - Invasive Crafted Species
Anything that brings attention to the problem of invasive species is a good thing. I did think that crafting with invasives was about using those invasive plants to make crafts, though, lol. For example, I've seen people weave baskets out of English Ivy (Hedera helix) that can take over our riparian forests here in the Willamette Valley.
I am in favor of eating invasives, too. I eat Coypu, crayfish (we have different invasive ones here), bullfrogs, and Japanese knotweed, that are all invasive here.
Yes, i couldn't agree more!! I also bought a flower basket made of Eichhornia crassipes in Ikea produced in th UK, where it's not problematic. I'm afraid that any economic business made with an invasive species can surpass the environmental interests and "produce" the invasive sp. became the main priority. Poor minds will try to make profit. I don't know the right answer for this, should the government allow to explore the invasive sp. commercialy...
It's such a complicated issue, isn't it. The officials in California are facing that exact problem with the Chinese Mitten Crab in the San Francisco and Sacramento Bay. They are edible and there would be a great market, but they are so afraid to develop an economy on it, because then they will lose all hope to eliminate it. But without massive effort, the crab will take over. And then that will be one of the few harvestable production from the bay. It's such a problem. There is no good answer at all for many of these problems. I'm glad you keep posting about invasive species.