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Nettle has amazing resilient abilities: its defensive stinging hairs, its abundant seeds and creeping rootstacks are optimal to colonize its surroundings. No wonder why nettle has spread from Europe to the entire world before Conquistadors did. | Nettle has amazing resilient abilities: its defensive stinging hairs, its abundant seeds and creeping rootstacks are optimal to colonize its surroundings. No wonder why nettle has spread from Europe to the entire world before Conquistadors did. | ||
Unless you live in a very dry area or Hawaii, you will most likely find nettle to forage in your close surroundings: free food costing no land-use nor artificial pesticides, how convenient! Nettle is best gathered 2 times a year: in spring before it flowers (leaves from flowering nettle can be hard on the kidneys) and in autumn if they have been cut back. Pick the top leaves only, they taste better! | Unless you live in a very dry area or Hawaii, you will most likely find nettle to forage in your close surroundings: free food costing no land-use nor artificial pesticides, how convenient! Nettle is best gathered 2 times a year: in spring before it flowers (leaves from flowering nettle can be hard on the kidneys) and in autumn if they have been cut back. Pick the top leaves only, they taste better! | ||