stinging nettle as a farm crop - permaculture!
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Uploaded by paulwheaton12 on Mar 26, 2011
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Michael "Skeeter" Pilarski is a popular permaculture instructor well known as a first class wildcrafter. Skeeter shows off a patch of stinging nettle he is growing intentionally. This is in the fall. He talks about getting three crops out of this patch each year. First, a crop of edible leaves; then a crop of seeds (urinary tract medicine) and finally a crop of root cuttings (prostate medicine). He says that he gets about ten bucks a pound for stinging nettle root cuttings and the small patch will produce about 35 pounds.
Skeeter says that stinging nettles are a dynamic accumulator, accumulating iron and other minerals.
Music by Jimmy Pardo
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Hey Paul! Do you know who or what company buys his nettle roots?
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you can also use the fibres of the nettles
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Great info! How big is this nettle patch?
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Rock on! It's awesome that a plant that is so often reviled is actually so useful!
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@logos2600 That's actually a very common pronounciation.
I've been saying it like that for a while.
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apparently root = rut
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Great video, would like to find something similar for thistles as they are both hard on the bare feet.
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This is a great idea. I've been looking for more varieties to add to my "wild" food garden. I really like to grow plants that I have to work to control, rather than work to nurture. Stinging nettle, here I come...
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@permados I'm sending some recipes to your email account. Snip the tops off with scissors so you can harvest them again and again.
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You can make beer from nettles? What part of the nettles do you use?
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I'm going to make gallons and gallons of beer from my nettles if spring ever comes to Atlantic Canada again.
Cannibalriot 11 months ago 10
Skeeter is so cool!
ahnamay 11 months ago 8