edible wild stinging nettle permaculture

[brockpierce1984]

I used to make nice delicious soup out of nettles. I blend them and then they give a nice smooth texture and an incredible flavor.

When I pick nettle I mostly use the leaves only and then mostly the tips ( the youngest leaves )

[feralkevin]

Theoretically, yes, but I've never seen anyone in person do it without getting stung.

[Greg123ory]

if you want the leaves grab the bottom and pull upwards and it will pull off all the leaves i learn't thos from bear grylls

[feralkevin]

A simple google search away you'll find many studies done on the nutrition and medicinal properties of nettle. Amazing medicinal qualities aside, nettles are perhaps the most nutritious greens ever studied. Spinach doesn't even compare!

[guahould]

is there any actual benefit to eating this stuff?? would spinach be better >?>? or lemon balm even ??

[brockpierce1984]

@guahould Well nettles detox your body quite rapidly and they are free and grows almost anywhere in the world.

[bookconsumption]

Nice, I enjoyed the video. I recently made a video on wild edibles (check my profile if you're interested). I'll have to make one on gathering stinging nettle soon.

[icicicles]

If you have a Vitamix machine or blender you can make a great smoothie.

Very important to first freeze all leafy veggies and fruits first so the cells explode releasing the juice and dissolving the fiber so your smoothie wont be pulpy.

Yummy!

[pilsforboys]

I have a question.

If i find nettles with small pieces of bird poop on it.

Can i just take it and clean it with water ? and if i do will there still be bakteries from the poop on it?

[Frostdme]

leave that one leave bro, it would absorb it! is can carry almost 100 kinds of bacteria

[cchanderson]

@pilsforboys Many of your store bought veggies are fertilized with "poop" and then they are rinsed. So there is no difference in you washing the poo off yourself. Bird has much less harmful bacteria than the human and hog waste they fertilize the fields with.  If you want to freak yourself out type "fertilizing with sludge" in Google lol.

[Jonase123]

"In many places, nettle is in extreme abundance and requires little or no input to grow." Tell my about it! Thanks for the educational video.

[Khono]

Those clippers seemed rather slow. My girlfriend, from Laos, is very fast at cutting things like that with her thumbnail or with a large knife. She even cut up a bush with woody stems up to 1/2 a cm thick with the same dull knife. Naturally, if you try this be very careful :)

[margot980]

dinitrochlorobenzine

It's a nasty chemical used in colour photo processing, it leaves a rash where painted on healthy people. The rash, however, is a good sign that the cell mediated side of the immune system is working and has been stimulated. No rash or little reaction has been found to accompany late stage cancer, suggesting its usefulness as a very cheap, simple test for this. One study found that too much UV lowers the response, (as with nettles).

[Khono]

Wow, margot980, very informative. Thank you!

[margot980]

If you live near huge patches that no one else seems to want to cut the tops off, you can gather bags and bags of the tops and blanch and freeze them. Great nutrition for other times of year, no trucks, right price. I also really like the idea of drying them.

Does anyone know of scientific studies equating nettles with DNCB?

[ichmalealsobinich]

Anyone already tasted a stinging nettle soup or salad? It can be a delicious vegetary food.

[margot980]

I have tried and will no longer eat raw stinging nettles, even if lashed to goo with a blender.

[trackersnw]

we love matt

[margot980]

Steamed nettles are a great green.

If stinging nettles don't sting, you may have been affected by too much sun. Touch them again in the morning.

I think they are good indicator and stimulator of the cell-mediated side of the immune system.

Sort of like DNCB.

[snocamo]

You can make cordage from the dried fibers of a nettle, too.

[matapouri1]

I am in NZ and just sold some nettle planting material today. This inspired me to plant some more closer to my house to get reminded to cook some up every day. I think they are a better green than broccoli even. No oxalic acid as in silverbeet. No hazzle with seed trays, no trouble with sluggs. I recommend a squirt of coconut milk to blend them up into a sauce.

[25KrickyKitty25]

Here, in Romania...nettles are so easy to find...andf that's a bad thing, because i've got nettle fobia:| i think i'm the only one in this world who has this...if i see a nettle 1 meter in front of me, i start crying, so please...don't grab nettles in front of me, of pet them like in this video :((

[joadiss]

Yikes! I found out about this plant by accident when pulling weeds. Touching it hurts worse than bull nettle. I thought is was some sort of hibiscus, or American beauty berry - NOT. Teach me to wear gloves like I'm supposed to! Interesting video.

[HalfKaztBoy]

I think I got stinging nattive stinging nettle around my creek, coz when you walk around there you get a bad burning sensation, and they look very alike to the stinging nettle in your video :D

[tbonegunslinger]

dude that's pretty cool

[feralkevin]

You can use the stalks, too. The spines go completely away if you cook the nettles. They are supposed to go away if you dry them, but I recently got a very interesting sensation in my fingers as I handled some dry nettle and got stung many times.

[lostorfound19]

please please please keep making these vids :D