For some invasives, if you can’t beat them, eat them

BANGOR DAILY NEWS • February 15, 2022

Move over locavores, there’s a new way to eat sustainably as an invasivore. As the term implies, invasivores consume invasive species. Doing so helps reduce invasive species on the Maine landscape that threaten native plants and terrestrial or aquatic animals. There are hundreds of invasives in Maine, but not all are edible and the likelihood of eating any of them into extinction is remote. But that doesn’t mean it’s not worth knoshing on a plant that threatens important crops or a native fish population. Some of these invasives are tasty.