What's up everyone? Welcome back. I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Hope you're inspired to grow your own Thanksgiving meal next year. I know that I am and today we're going to talk about a plant that can actually help you with that journey and that plant would be comfrey. It's one of the most popular and touted plants in the permaculture world for many reasons. Most of those

reasons I know a little bit less than Stephen Cornette. So I'm going to bring in Stephen and he's going to talk about what Confry is, why you should use it, how he's using it on his farm, and just why it's more or less a super plant when it comes to gardening, urban farming,

market gardening, just growing anything in general.

So let's let's even take it away.

So comfry is one of the most important plants because of the nutrient acquisition

quality that it has.

So Cunfry is a type of plant called a biodynamic accumulator.

And there's many, many plants in this category.

Some others such are Yaro or Boraj starflowerflower and these are plants that send out roots very deep down into

the soil and draw up micronutrients up into their leaves.

So one of the popular things to use comfrey for is as a mulch.

You can grow the plant and you can take the leaves off

and then just discard them onto the ground and they're going to add in minerals to your

soil over time.

Another name for comfry is bone knit and it's actually been used for thousands of years to help with

internal injuries and especially broken bones. So what people would do is they

would make a salve or a paltus and then they would just put that on the affected

area. The nutrients then absorb through the skin and help to mend the bone.

So it can be used for many different medicinal uses.

Another way that people like to use it is to make comfry teas. So because of the fact that it can draw

up a lot of nutrients and store them into leaves, you can then take those leaves and put them in a big bucket.

So you can do use like a five gallon bucket,

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