Anyone remember WPR special about making food from brush & weeds?
 

Last year I caught the tail end of a Wisconsin Public Radio program talking with a Chemist turned farm who since the 70's developed a fertalizer and pesticide free solution to farming. Just grow whatever naturally comes up in your area and trim off what you need, feedstock can be trees, brush, grass, weeds, anything.

He has a full spectrum process similar to what is used on soybeans to digest any plant matter into sugar, flour/starch, fat/oil and protien.

The advantage is
1. No fertalizer
2. No pesticides
3. No water.
4. In most cases no planting.
5. No GMOs

Overall his process uses far less fuel and energy despite requiring grinding, enzymes and bacteria to process the organic matter after harvest. His process also typically exceeds the normal yields from a field and makes food grade materials of higher quality than the usual pesticide ridden feedstocks we use currently.

Anyone remember who this was? I wanted to do more reading but didn't take the time to investigate who/what/when this was.

All I could find was this on NPR:
Foraging The Weeds For Wild, Healthy Greens : NPR

Nope, I am wondering if it was a local program with a call in guy.

His focus was on factory farms replacing inefficient corn with whatever should grow on their lots for the purpose of making industrial food product replacements, like starch, flour, oil, protein sugar that big food uses. Also of coarse high quality feed for animals.

I listed for about 10 minutes but never caught the guys name or company

Try this.

Wisconsin Public Radio - Search Ideas Programs

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