Comfrey — The Legendary Herb of Life
- Nature’s best way of providing High Protein — 22% to 33%
- Vitamins A, C, B-12 * Very Drought Resistant! *
- Rich in Silicon, Calcium, Potassium, Phosphorus, Iron, Iodine, Trace Minerals and more!
- Used as a folk remedy for thousands of years
- Very high food value for animals
- World record yield of over 140 tons per acre!
Comfrey is the greatest producer of vegetable protein and the fastest protein builder on Earth. Acre for acre, it can yield 20 times the protein soybeans do.
Though suppressed in the U.S.A. Comfrey is widely grown throughout the world as food for cattle, goats, horses, pigs, sheep and most any animal you can think of that eats vegetation. From earthworms to fish to birds to mammals and humans — Comfrey is used as food and medicine.
Plant crowns or 1-to-4 year plants NOW and have fresh leaves in 2 to 3 weeks!
Coe’s Comfrey sells the Bocking #4 strain of Russian comfrey, Symphytum Peregrinum, which is best for hardiness, highest yield, and the highest protein with high allantoin content; for fodder, compost, and all around general use.
The Bocking #4 strain is resistant to ‘rust’ — Comfrey’s only known disease and is bothered very little by insects.
Comfrey is also known as Quaker Comfrey, Russian Comfrey, Healing Herb, Knit Bone, Bruisewort, Knit Bond and Gum Plant. It is scientifically known as Symphytum Peregrinum Ledeb, which is the same as Symphytum asperum x officinale or Symphytum x uplandicum, of the Boraginaceae family.
Comfrey is the only land plant known to derive and store Vitamin B-12 from the soil!
Comfrey as Feed and Food
Comfrey is a high-yield, high protein perennial that is superior compost, fodder, food and remedy. It can be dried for hay or crumbles, pelletized, and also used for silage. Versatile fresh leaves are your main crop.
With increasing animal feed costs and protein prices jumping ever higher, you’ll benefit from having the PERENNIAL SECURITY of Comfrey’s extraordinarily high-yield to use for economical animal food.
SIGNIFICANT CASH SAVINGS feeding Comfrey with minimal soy/corn based animal feed – CAN BE REALIZED BY YOU!
Certainly, millions of people over thousands of years, have consumed Comfrey in various forms for food and medicine. New developments to provide nutrient-rich, high protein Comfrey flour to a starving humanity may some day be a reality. Meanwhile the leaves are consumed daily by multitudes—fresh, cooked, juiced . . .
Comfrey can be planted Spring, Summer or Fall . . .
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