Stinging Nettle Seeds: Nature's Hidden Gifts 🌱 - Harvest, Health Benefits & History
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ต.ค. 2024
- Stinging nettle seeds are one of nature's greatest gifts! 🌱 Bursting at their little green seams with vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids, antioxidants, adaptogens, and more! 💚
Enjoyed for centuries as a wild and free source of food and medicine, nettle seeds can be eaten fresh, sprinkled on meals, blended into smoothies and pestos, infused with honey, or added to any dish you fancy. 🍯
Although these seeds are little, they have big health benefits. They are able to: 👇
🌱 Boost Energy and Vitality
🌿 Enhance our Immune System
🌱 Improve Skin and Hair Health
🌿 Support Kidney and Urinary Health
🌱 Boost Mental Clarity and Mood
🌿 Balance Blood Sugar and Hormones
🌱 Provide Anti-inflammatory Benefits
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I did it!😊 Well I passed on the knowledge of identifying the nettle seeds to my husband and he harvested some for me as I’m disabled and unable to walk far. I did the rest of the work- that’s the deal😁. Now I have a jar of dried nettle seeds and I add a teaspoon to my yogurt and mix them in. It’s beneficial to my mental health as well as physical and I’m trying hard to improve both. I’m learning a lot from your videos- and so is my husband, I’m very lucky he shares my enthusiasm ❤.
If more people where like you brother the world would be a better place.
skunk
I think we as a people have become too detatched from nature, i think thats why so many people are unhappy.
@@Numbertwo22detached from What Created The Nature : ) ❤
@@deweyory1635 any chance your trying to hint at that book written by titus flavius josephus?
I’ve recently started utilising the wonderful power of these seeds. A tea spoon of dried seeds into my kefir and frozen fruit smoothie each morning has given me a wakefulness with even only a few hours sleep to get through my shifts at work without using caffeine which is only a placebo that tires my neurospicy brain lol
Caffeine sends my neurospicy off too! thanks for the new term 🤣
He's like the Steve Irwin of foraging!!!
Let’s hope he doesn’t suffer a similar fate😦😦😦
@@willibobsfulstinging nettle....stinging ray.....😅
I've suffered from hay fever for years
And the thing I've found is that nettle tea is the best thing to help me through the day. I pick them fresh with some mint leaves.
Brew them up in a pan. And drink it throughout the day. Sometimes add some raw honey. The young leaves at the top are best.
I love the enthusiasm of this fella
I have used nettles for over 50 years to control slugs wild around my brassica tunnel and as mulch in my beds slugs dont like getting stung happy gardening Richardx
Thank you for the tip. I will definately try it.
Thanks for the tip as I am plagued with slugs in my vepatch
Veg patch!
Thank you for the tip 🙂 do dead nettles still sing them if laid around plants as mulch? Thank you
@@oaktreegirl not really change often and not just around all over the beds happy gardening Richardx
Wow i didn't realise you got male and female nettles!! I have been eating baby nettle leaves for about 6 months and feel much healthier...gonna try and find some seeds now thanks 💚
So glad I found this guy. I knew a few things about nettles but this video is rich in information and fun
Absolutely love your enthusiasm. Never tried the nettle seeds. I will try them now . I use nettle to reduce arthritis joint pain by stinging the area of inflammation. Sounds weird but it relieves the pain in the joint affected. Iv got used to the sting and enjoy relief from a worse pain for several days.
Everytime the nettle is in the spotlights for her power it makes me smile
skunk
@@MrSuperG stinkdier
To understand natures bounty is, to truly be a child of the earth.
Been using nettle for past 22 yrs.
Great videos, extremely educational. I grew up in Germany with a lot of stinging nettles. Fortunately, my mom taught that stinging nettles are NOT a weed but a healthy medicinal plant. But you've taken it a step further with your info. Thank you so much!
Nettle Tea is a good antihistamine one if my Turkish rescue dogs has it in his food it's the only thing that works for him also goud for chronic fatigue so it helps me as well
Brilliant, I’ve really suffered with hay fever this summer, to the point of nosebleeds from sneezing so much. I will be doning my gloves and harvesting this weekend. Thanks for the heads up!
Yes, thank you
Thank you. I have been foraging for nettle seeds for a while but didn't know about the male and female part. Now I know. 😊
I love your channel, so glad I had it pop up in my feed. Nature is truly bountiful 😊
Stinging nettle seeds are great for poultry, my turkeys go out of their way to eat them and my chickens eat the bits the turkeys drop because they aren't tall enough to pick their own. I cook with nettles a lot so will share a recipe that I call Bubble and Sting. It is like Bubble and Squeak but with steamed nettles replacing the cabbage, when mixed with left over mashed spuds and then fried it is absolutely heavenly. I live in Bulgaria and all parts of the nettle are used for food and medicine, there is a great herbal medicine tradition here and if you go to see your GP you are just as likely to be prescribed herbal medicine as big pharma stuff. At the moment I am gathering artemesia, we are going to add it to our apricot rakia (demon, home made spirit) for a new take on absinthe.
Oh yum, I'll be right there.
wow your culture kept the ancient wisdom!!!!!!!
My first trip abroad was Bulgaria.. just missed out on a heatwave but lovely memories.. :) Big Pharma can go f**k themselves :) here in the UK you can eat every single piece of the Dandelion. .the flower /stem/ root , especially (can be dried out and used as a coffee) I'm still learning about natures free foods & medicines. Thank you for your input and knowledge :)
Yes, that's brilliant
THANK YOU! I'm a dedicated forager in Ohio, where we have lots of nettles, but I haven't run in to any for about 25 years; not because they aren't here-- just because I haven't looked in the right places. Until TODAY! This video helped to confirm my identification.
Like you, I'm interested in everything about plants: medicine, food, history, myth, and magic, so my apothecary is extensive, along with books I've compiled. I have recipe books that include the nutritional, medicinal, and magical properties of ingredients. I have foraging maps I've drawn, with marked paths and photos showing where and when I found my treasures in the woods and meadows that surround me. And I have a thick tome containing detailed information on every plant, on every jar, on my shelves. And my jar labels have so much information on them that they look like they are FDA (and witch!) approved!
Finally, stinging nettles were brought to the United States from England -- Europe. My ancestors came here almost 400 years ago. Do they bring nettles? They certainly used them, along with many other plants I forage. So now I have a connection to my ancestors. To history. And to You! How cool is that?
So glad I found you.
Subscribed.
I have a question. When you forage nettles, what do you do about the bugs you accidentally collect with them? I collected a some nettles recently for the first time to make some tea, but when it came to putting them into my pot, I realised I had a load of bugs too, and I couldn’t bring myself to boil them, so I put them on my lawn and have effectively wasted them. But I didn’t want to kill the little guys, I didn’t realise I’d picked up so many, I felt like such an ass. How do you get around that?
ancient native americans would collecrt nettle all the time- through the years, they figured out that our spit neutralizes the poison of nettle leaves- they would lick their finger BEFORE plucking leaves to do it without pain=)
Oh Fella never stop what you are doing 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Your enthusiasm for natures natural food & medicine supplies is what made me subscribe... ATB
Just listen to those birds. Love mixing the seeds in with my bread 🤩
I love stinging nettles, i pick them all the time and use them instead of spinach :)
This is fantastic information. I have been using the leaves for several years but did not know what a nutritional dynamo the seeds are. I will definitely harvest seeds this year and will let the small Nettle patch at the edge of my property expand. I will also add your your book to the Foraging section of my home library.
Nettle seeds are very good for hair health when ingested.
You're a mine of information👍 you're videos are inspiring, lively & passionate :I'm learning so much at 62yrs old:pity i didn't know all this 30yrs ago & teach my kids it.
Thank you , you should do children's classes 👍👏👏
When I broke my wrist, nhs nurse suggested I have nettle soup to help with the healing. Luckily it was the right time of year. No way of telling if it helped but it's an old idea.
Love Nettle tea, thanks for sharing 💚
Great video - well presented, packed full of good descriptive content - fantastic!
Greeting from the woods of Sweden 😃👋🇸🇪
I make my own electrolyte drinka from salt, sugar and nettle. It contain everything u need and more. No need to buy these things.
Thanks for a great channel and knowledge
Sounds good! Can you put up your recipe please and how to prepare? Thank you. 💚
@@gobnaitaine5103 yes ofcourse. The messurements is swedish though. I m not sure how to convert to british.
I boil 1 liter water with 1/2 tsk salt and 6 tsk sugar. Then take away from stove and put the dry or fresh nettle in. Let it cool. Then pour it throu net and to bottle. I put a lot of nettle in it. I think more than 200 gram. Its a very nice green drink.
@@Zaggrippas Thank you so much! Much appreciated. Love from Ireland ☘️
@@Zaggrippas wow that is genius!
I have a very large patch of nettles next to my house. I always wondered about them because the seeds I got from them look different than the photos I've seen of nettle seeds. Now after watching your video, I think my entire patch is male plants. May I please ask,
1. Is it possible to have a patch of male-only plants?
2. So the "seeds" on the male plant are not good for medicine? I have been harvesting them for several years. I love the way they taste and use them as a seasoning on food.
Bonjour ive just subbed 💚from france
Im so happy i have a patch of nettles growing in my garden this year, i didn't puck the leaves in spring, not that we had one, but im looking forward to harvesting the seeds. Thank you for this. I would not have known male and female. I know they're good for you though. Love and blessings to you and your family ❤
"If you don't like being stung, use gloves." (4:50)
(Handles nettle with bare hands...)
ha
He likes the sting.
Stumbled on this video and really enjoyed it. 👍
Great video here !! thank you !! I love growing stinging nettle here in the Southeast United States !! 🌱🌱🌱
Cheers Patrick!
I’m brewing my fist cup of seed tea as I type! Thanks for the info🙏
P.S. put a link to your books on your posts, reckon you’ll sell more! Although a quick search found it easy… I’m ordering Knowledge to Forage for my better half gardener wife 🙏 God bless you and your family…
In the states , our variety has male and female on the same plant. Male ( pollen flowers) open earlier. I'm nearing the end of the season here in northern NY state and have collected 2 and half quart jars of seeds from my two little patches. Hopefully collect so roots later on. I ate some greens earlier and they were quite good. On another channel they suggested cutting some down so they'd have greens longer. I may try this next year. I'm also going to try cultivating nettle.
I hit the like button before I even watch the video now. Thank you as always Dane and family for sharing your wisdom 🧐🥰🏴
Thanks you we really appreciate that!
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Thank you for the excellent information. I have often used the leaves for soup but never considered the seeds. 😊
Stining nettle good to cook just like spinach and great tea. Just found your channel, very informative
Good for the kidneys. Good to know. Will look into this. Cheers.
Any time!
thank you! your home looks so much like where i live near portland oregon! we have nettle and blackberries aplenty=)
Can you make tea with them, or is that the leaves you need, or can you dry both and use both for tea together, pls,
Thank you
The technical term for dangling or drooping my friend
Pendulous 🤛
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A fine term too 😁
Amazing information. I’m going to go and pick me some nettle seeds. 🙌
Awesome!
What about Nettle tea.? I love that .
Hi, have you ever tried pickling them to preserve? Or made a non-alcohol tincture with them please? I picked some the other day as they had drawn their attention to me. I felt an immediate lift in consciousness and awareness (much needed as I've felt pretty 'dense' for a while now! Haha). I live in a very old static van which is a bit damp so just drying them doesn't do too well for me. Thank you. On the off-chance I did a tiny jar of seeds in apple cider vinegar to see what happens. 🙂
Love your vibes bro
I always thought needles and dandelions were weeds not I leave them and let them grow wild in my back garden .Never used them yet but one day hope too .Thank you so much for your vlog on wild herbs is what I call them now not weeds. Happy to see them growing .Wish I had known more when young ,our health would have been a lot better I think
Fabulous video thanks
Great information thanks.
Wonderful, I've just ordered your book for my granddaughter, thank you 😊
Thank you❤🇨🇦
Love your videos ❤
What great info! I am having a hard time telling which are the female seeds, but I am determined to learn! What a wonderful plant!
Your videos are truly excellent , thank you, so positive , uplifting & educational 🩵🍃🌿🪴🌱
Brilliant!
Another wonderful video. Also, I just received your book and it's brilliant. So grateful that you have put in all this work to produce these things. I'm sure they bring great joy to many. Wishing you and your family all the best.
I need to find a good place to buy my nettle seeds from. I have a friend who grows Nettles. Maybe I'll go and see if I can pick the seeds. Thank you for the video!!
Brilliant thanks
Perfectly timed
😄
These are part of my allotment crop 😉
Thank you!
Great video. I'm looking forward to watching your other videos.
Awesomeness, thankyou 😊
You’re welcome 😊
Great knowledge
Cheers!
Tried some fresh after a long walk with two miles still to go. They really made a difference. Just harvested the ones from the bottom of my garden. I also picked the males and surrounded some Jerusalem artichokes that have suffered slug attack. Might work?
So many great questions. Where to look for answers? Thanks👍
A hear ye man. Thanks
Fantastic,thanks from Ireland☘️
Thanks I learnt far more than I expected
Brilliant
Do they lose their benefits if you blanch , cook or bake them ie in cookies and can you dehydrate them in a dehydrator thanks
They only reduced a little bit when cooked 🌱
@@homeiswhereourheartis Thank you
Great video, many thanks! 😊
Brother, you are the truth, thank you for your medicine 🙏🏽🤍
The leaves are are very tasty too
Indeed!
What do they taste like? Spicy? Sweet? Salty?
Great informational videos my friend. Keep up the good work.
Thanks... I'm off to forage some today! x
Do you give an identification guide within your book.
Thanks
You sure do show us some fascinating stuff.
I'm loving these fab videos thank you. One thing I was hoping for, was a pointer to the best time to harvest these, and what condition to look out for etc?? Any chance of a reply with info please? Many thanks. 😊
I like your videos, thank you.🙏 Blessings 🥰
You do a fabulous job with these videos! Thank you!!
Brilliant thankyou will check in my garden tomorrow see if I have any female seeds ❤❤❤
Just found this channel , I love it !
Well presented and very interesting. Thank you 👍👍👍👍👍
😊 love nettles
Us too 😁
Thankyou !
Welcome!
Thankyou for the information!
Welcome!
Thanks! Thérèse from Saint-Léonard Québec Canada 🍁 🌱🌿🇨🇦😘
also delicious cooked a few minutes in salted water
Thank you for sharing! Love this!
Absolutely love your videos
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I thoroughly enjoy your videos! Thank you! The guitar music is beautiful! Can you share the name of the song or artist?
Just a wonderful channel 🥰
Glad you enjoy it!
Thankyou. I enjoy your videos! And your enthusiasm! Nice music too!
You are AWESOME - brilliant personality and shining presentation! Youre so happy and enthusiatic, it captures ATTENTION. Great editing alongside.
Really great video, I learned a lot.
Nettles are also good for gout, the only thing is... It's the stinging that's needed, just sting the area that's affected, daily and the pain from the gout dissipates. I can confirm this works as I have suffered for about 2 years with gout and tried everything (apart from big pharma crap!) It works.
only cure for gout is stop boozing
I sting my hands when my arthritis hurts, it definitely works
@@spudspuddythanks for your input 👍
They're good for a low immune system too, the stinging (😢) stimulates an antihistamine reaction, great if you have allergies to anything. I have a love (mostly)/hate (the pain) relationship with the brilliant nettle 😂