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Native Food for Fodder- Spanish Needles (AKA Bidens)

Posted on June 2, 2018June 2, 2018by Goatsonbikes
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65    Spanish needles, beggar’s tick, monkey’s lice, ‘annoying seeds from Hades!’… This Florida native, Bidens Alba or its sister species Bidens pelosa, has many common names. It takes 10 minutes of cutting and 15 minutes of raking to turn it into livestock fodder- and here’s why we do it…   I See Bidens They are a […]

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