Hello everyone. Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. Hope you are doing

amazing wherever you are and whenever you are in the world. We're back. We've got Rosalie de la Fore and she's an

herbalist author of Wild Remedies. It's publishing April 7th. So mark your

calendars check that out. She's also written the alchemy of herbs,

which is about how to use herbs in your everyday life,

in the kitchen, etc.

So yesterday we talked about dandelions,

one of the most commonly known ones out there. Today I think slightly less common but

still most of you have heard of this and that would be Nettles or Stinging Nettles and

so Rosalie I would love to know the way to approach the stinging

nett. What should we know about them? Yeah, yeah, well, it's so much fun to talk

about stinging nettle because, you know, definitely people are aware of

dandel and they might be surprised that they're used as food as medicine.

But when it comes to the stinging metal, like these plants bite back.

And so people are often really surprised that you would want to interact with them further.

But they have so many benefits.

They are one of our most nutrient-dense wild foods.

They're exceptionally high in plant proteins.

And so they're very filling and just filled with all sorts of

nutrients and they do make a delicious food. You can use them very similarly to

say spinach or kale other leafy greens pretty much anyway you

would use those you could use nettle but you do have to approach this plant with

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