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Harvesting Nettle Love! Primetime for this Healing Wild SuperFood
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Harvesting Nettle Love! It's Primetime for this Healing Wild SuperFood
Learn to ID, harvest and use this nutrient dense, blood building herb.
Stinging nettle, who gifts us with potent food and herbal medicine, is at its leafy peak. Grab your harvest basket and tap the flow of this deep green beauty.
Stinging Nettle Gifts:
This fiery wild herb, scientifically called Urtica dioica, is a perennial of the Urticaceae family. A nourishing wild food and tonic herbal medicine, nettle is an excellent example of where food and medicine meet.
This nutrient dense, healing ally is a stimulating, heating, blood-building tonic (high in calcium, magnesium, and iron) that supports the kidneys, adrenals, and circulation.
Use it to increase blood flow in general and to resolve wet cold conditions in the respiratory system. Often used in recipes for improving skin, hair, joints, allergies and arthritic conditions.
Flavor: Nettle leaf has a rich, hearty (meaty), deep-green flavor-deeper, richer, and gamier than kale or spinach. Aroma: green chlorophyll (not aromatic).
As a tea / infusion, enjoy its rich flavor alone, or combine it with mint, lemon balm or other aromatic herbs.
Culinary Uses
Cook in soup, stew, sauté, creamed, omelet, frittata, quiche, gratin, casserole, and more!!! Dry it, and add it powdered to everything, even popcorn or herbal truffles.
This is a favorite wild edible, filled with over-the-top nutrient density plus powerful plant chemistry that can make one happy and tingly!
CAUTIONARY NOTE: Contraindicated for irritated folks, highly fiery, pitta conditions, rash-y situations, ulcers.; someone who already has too much heat.
With any wild food (or new food in general) or herb, start with small bites and see how your body responds.
Harvest
For Tea: Here in NY harvesting for tea usually starts around mid spring (now). Harvest leaf and stem before it starts to flower. You can do a few harvests in one growing season depending on how well nourished and watered the nettle patch is. I suggest harvesting the upper third of the plant.
For Food:
Gather leaf and stem when it is tender. Right now I gather 3-5 nodes down from the top. As the plant matures and gets taller, it becomes more medicinal and less food-like, and tougher. Still you can harvest the tops (1-2 nodes down) for food if it feels good to you. I often do this.
For PROTECTION wear gloves and use scissors when harvesting, as fine hairs cover the plant that can inject us with chemicals that cause irritation, aka urtication.
LOOK FOR it in full sun to part shade in moist, fertile, well drained soil, in meadows, riverbanks, woodland openings, edges, compost piles, gardens. Hardiness Zones (USDA): 4-8. Found throughout the temperate zones of the world.
Subspecies Fun
In our video we focus on the monoecious subspecies Urtica dioica subspecies gracilis native to the USA, where male and female flowers are on the same plant. Urtica dioica subspecies dioica is a native of Eurasia and is dioecious with male (staminate) flowers and female (carpellate) flowers on separate plants. But, don’t worry, both subspecies are used interchangeably.
ID
-Fine hairs cover the plant that can inject us with irritating chemicals.
-Nettle has egg to lance shaped, opposite leaves, with sharply toothed (serrated) leaf margins.
-Its leaves have a long stalk (aka petiole).
-Later in the season the leaves elongate = lanceolate.
-At the nodes are four oblong to linear stipules that look like mouse ears. --Nodes are where the leaf stalk meets the main stem.
-Main stem has four ribs that look rope-like.
-Nettle has rhizomatous roots that like to spread.
REMINDER AND LINKS TO VIEW OUR OTHER NETTLE VIDEOS HERE:
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Wishing you nettle love!
In gratitude,
Dina
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After the war food was scarce my mother send us kids to get nettles which was growing abundantly at the creek side ,she made almost every day spinach with whatever we had she surely kept the whole family healthy
Hello Leopold, thank you for sharing this story with us. Good to know!
Thank you for pointing out the pre-flowering foraging time. There are so many saying you can eat it all year, and I never liked to pick it when it's actually pregnant and birthing, and Ive asked even all professionals/herbalists, and they too said all year long and were not concerned or anything by that point. Again, thank you for your qualitative approach. Love
Hello dukenegju, thank you for your comment.
Please Note: Admiral Butterfly caterpillars eat nettles. If you see folded leaves, leave the plant as it is home to an Admiral
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Wow! I just discovered your channel. You are a gift, wealth of knowledge and an excellent teacher. Teak you for sharing with us.
Thank you for appreciating the channel! So glad!
Excellent video!!
Thank you!
I just recently found your channel and it has become my favorite "go to" on learning herbs. When you speak, I can feel the knowledge you have in what you're doing and I trust what you're saying...which is such a relief given how many channels are out there these days you have to be careful who you listen to. Thank you for sharing your knowledge !!
Hello Teresa, thank you! I appreciate your feedback. Enjoy the channel. Dina
12:10 thank you so much once again for the thorough identification demonstration.
Welcome. Glad you are appreciating the videos.
Lol...my nettle loves all our property. When we first moved here 12 years ago, my second son first discovered it...screaming into the house j thought he was dying! We really wern't sure till he calmed down what was going on...one hour later. When I found it, I tried getting rid of it. Thank goodness its stubborn cause once i started researching nettle.. wow. I propagated it into my front yard but kinda wished I wouldn't have...lol. We have it everywhere on our five acres and I love it. Make salves with it, dehydrate it and eat it, tincture it as well.
Hello Beulah, love your comment! And what do you like to use your nettle salve for? How are you making it? Thanks! Dina
I have been finding myself so enthralled with looking for edible plants. Thank you!
Hello Lori, enjoy the foraging and feasting!
I sell more of this seed than I thought I would. There seems to be quite a bit of demand for it so someone is using it for something. Some of the larger seed suppliers seem to run out of bulk seed on a yearly basis. I haven't even used it yet myself I only got into it as I saw there was a demand for it and I therefor think it has a lot of inherent value. Plus I like having it on the fence line to help preserve my privacy.
Hello J Man, thanks for your comment. Good to know you are selling lots of nettle seed.
Nettles taste delicious
Thanks, One Eyed Willy! Glad.
So much information in your videos!
Thank you for sharing and teaching. I’m not sure if I have this in south Louisiana but I’m going to keep an eye out.
Hello Wendy, hoping you'll find some. Here is a distribution map: plants.usda.gov/home/plantProfile?symbol=URDI
@@DinaFalconi thank you very much!
As a child my grandma and I used to pick nettles (without gloves) and she'd make the most delicious potato nettle soup. It was my favorite thing to eat and I hope to start foraging for them again. I wish I'd lived with my grandma in the village instead of moving to Los Angeles with my family. I'd have so much more knowledge about foraging by learning from my grandma and the other villagers. I'm just happy that the desire to forage has awakened within me. Now as an adult I'm happy to learn from you. Thanks for your amazing channel.
Thank you, Kitty, for sharing your thoughts here. Enjoy the channel.
Hello Doctor Dina, is it possible to treat chronic urinary burning with herbs? Thank you❤
Ah, thanks, but I am not doc! Generally speaking, herbs can be helpful with urinary burning, but of course the specific person/ situation needs addressing. It's best to work with a holistic healthcare provider in person for best care / results. Having said that, cornsilk and marshmallow root are considered soothing for the urinary tract.
This was the best breakdown for identification. Thank you!!
So glad! Enjoy the nettle harvest.
Thank you for this! I've been wanting to forage for nettle but for some reason felt too insecure about identification. I'm ready now thanks to you!
Hello Michelle, so glad! Just make sure to match all the ID clues in our video with your specimens. Enjoy.
Thank you for also giving instruction for identification…. Loved the video 😊
Thanks for the video love!
Wow I have some nettle I'll try thanks nice places...enjoy 😉
Thanks, Naty. Enjoy your nettle.
Always love your knowledgeable lessons. This is why I have your book and want to move out of these mountains. Lol😅
Thank you for all your support!
Thank you!
Welcome, Kim. Enjoy.
Brilliant teacher thank you so much.
Thank you, Paula. Enjoy the channel!
my family traditional dish is eating rice with nettle Omg it is so delicious
Oh, nice! Is there a region your family tradition is from?
Wondering if you'd comment on the anti--
Inflammatory response that the stinging helps with joint pain / arthritis etc ....& that
topical use of the leaves can be a great help with these issues.... similar to bee venom.
Dr. Berg told a story of a farmer who had severe crippling arthritis & could barely walk
who flipped his tractor over upon hitting a beehive.....the bees could have stung him to death , but instead they mostly bit the backs of his knees , resulting in marked reduction in his disability.
We are surrounded by an amazing life force that is SO much different than the current scientific world view says .....
Hello Thomas, thank you for your comment. I would be curious to hear more about the nettle sting therapy as well. I have heard of folks being helped, but also of it being very uncomfortable......
So interesting, educational and amazing!
Thank you!
Excellent!
Thank you, Deborah, for appreciating the video. Enjoy the channel!
Hello Dina, I have these plants in my yard, or they look very similar to the stinging nettle, but it doesn't sting when I touch the stalk. Any insight?
Hello Kate, as you are thinking, if it doesn't sting you don't have stinging nettle (Urtica dioica). But there are a few look a-likes. Perhaps it is White Vervain. More about it here: gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org/species/verbena/urticifolia/ Let us know what you figure out.
Do you think it's okay to still pick nettles in early May? I know it's not ideal, and late March/early April is best. But I was too ill/constrained & not able to. Have you harvested them around this time of year before? X
Thanks, yes, pick them before they flower for leaf tea and tip prune the tips for cooking.
How do I know I have Nettle for sure??
Hello Monica, in this video I try to show you all the ID details so you know you have the right plant. Best to match your specimen with the video images. But still, even better if you can find someone in person to verify your ID.
Chickens love it too. Just chop it in pieces and throw on the ground. They will eat it in seconds.
Ha, good to know.
DO YOU HAVE A BOOK WITH RECIPES ABOUT THIS AND OTHER STUFF YOU SPEAK OF? I WANT TO LEARN SO BADLY. I DON'T KNOW HOW TO GROW IT, CAN IT BE GROWN IN TOTES ON MY PATIO. I AM DISABLED, I CAN'T PLOW. THANKS SO MUCH ALSO DO YOU SELL YOUR STUFF?
Thanks, I have 2 books: "Foraging & Feasting: A Field Guide and Wild Food Cookbook" and "Earthly Bodies & Heavenly Hair: Natural and Health Personal Care for Everybody" More about them here: www.botanicalartspress.com/ and here: bookshop.org/p/books/earthly-bodies-heavenly-hair-natural-and-healthy-bodycare-for-every-body-dina-falconi/11815893 Some of the plants can be grown in containers, depending on the herb. Nettle, is probably best grown in the ground.
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Thanks!
What is the difference between this and thistle?
Thanks, everything is different, except that they both have hairs / prickly irritating components. More about identifying thistle (btw there are many species of this thistle) here: gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org/genus/cirsium/
How do you know if it has already flowered?
You would see the flowers, and if past flowering, you would see the seeds. See video here for how it looks in this later stage.
Thanks Dina!
I watched your video & read the full email. Is use of this herb contraindicated in people like me who get frequent rashes? I have lupus & deal with itchy, fine rashes pretty frequently.
Hello Nancy, thanks for your question. It may be contraindicated for you, but I suggest, if you'd like to try it, start with a small amount and see how it affects you. Keep me posted.
Dina can nettle be picked in summer or fall? 🤔? Just wondering keeping to spring is the best time, for the most you can get out of the nettle. Also when is a good time to plant it? Can you plant the seeds in the fall? With winter on its way after that? Thanks a ton!!!! ❤️
Yes, nettle can be picked all growing season. For leaf harvest best to gather before flower, so spring. Or if cut back and new growth occurs that looks tender and succulent, it can be harvested it again. Flower and seed are harvested during those stages of growth. Best to plant it by dividing and transplanting its roots. Spring or fall are usually the best times to do this, when there is plenty of rain and it's not too hot.
Thank you
Green Nettle taste like walnut to me
Thanks, interesting!
I have been searching for stinging nettle for 2 years. I just can't find it! Any tips Dina? (I live on eastern Long Island).
Hmmm..... I suggest looking for it in light sun to part shade in moist, fertile, well drained soil, in meadows, riverbanks, woodland openings, edges, compost piles, gardens. Perhaps an old farm with good amounts of animal manure piles. Good luck and keep us posted.
This chemical you have mentioned is the same chemical that ants sting with.
Thanks, yes.
I can't find any on our 10 acres!
Its very easy to start from seed. You can find seed online. You have to plant in the winter though to cold treat the seed. I planted hundreds of seeds last fall and have hundreds of plants coming up. It takes me at least an hour to get to my nettle patch but now I'll have one in my yard.
And you can also introduce some transplants, dividing off a plant with roots intact from another patch. It's very easy to grow.
Ha, wonderful!