Stinging Nettle Rhizomes For Sale on Homesteader's Co-op
Spring is fully in swing at Mountain Jewel Homestead. It seems like everywhere we walk we spy plants returning from winter's cold slumber. Dormancy is breaking and we're delighted to see so many of our plant allies lush with green vibrant growth!
We have to laugh every year because Spring usually also entails a lot of, "Oh, I forgot I planted that there!" In Fall we are busy dividing and spreading roots like comfrey and nettle, sowing seeds and propagating plants. Spring is when we start to see the blossoming of our hard work!
This Spring, we're delighted to offer Stinging Nettle Rhizomes to our community! We've had these nettles on our land for 3 years and initially received them from a dear friend and longtime organic and biodynamic grower.
She told us they are a noteworthy biodynamic variety from Europe. Nettles are quite popular there and a mainstay in biodynamic gardening. We not only use nettles to help build amazing compost & soil on our land, but they also taste great!
This morning (after being inspired by some recent marketing developments at Homesteader's Co-op), Ini and I made the profile for our Stinging Nettle Rhizomes. You can check it out on the site and I'll also share it here.
Seasonally available for a short time. Buy NOW!
Stinging Nettles – Urtica dioica
This is an essential plant for any garden or homestead. An amazing dynamic accumulator
(of K, Ca, S, Cu, Fe and Na), nettles are a fantastic soil building plant. Often used in compost building and biodynamic preparations, this plant is a gardener’s best friend. Nettles produce abundant delicious mineral rich greens (both summer and fall for us) and make a splendid tea when dried. Seeds can be eaten and stalks can be used to make cordage or yarn.
Once established a nettle patch will yield for years and will continue to spread, so be mindful of where you plant it. Its stinging can help relieve inflammations and arthritis.
What you can expect:
A small bundle of nettle rhizomes packed in mulch. Once you receive your package, it should
be planted or up potted immediately. Due to the nature of this plant, we will only be shipping it out for a short period of time in April. Place your order now.
Nettle will thrive in rich soil, but will tolerate a wide range of soil types.
As it says in the description, we'll only be offering these for a short Spring window so if you're interested, get some now! This is definitely a plant to have for its many uses and absolute holistic nutritional offerings! This is a plant I can't imagine our homestead without.
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We have forest full of this everywhere!
You need to treat this like bamboo it will spread everywhere!! 🙄
Treat it like bamboo, meaning use it or eat it! Right?
Thats an exciting prospect! A plant that is so prolific and beneficial that you have to be motivated in order to have it not get out of hand. Sounds like a blessing!
hehe yes some people put in rhizome barriers to stop the spread. personally i love it when a plant i can't get enough of grows like crazy! people should definitely be aware of this when making their site selection.
It has many uses, and many benefit’s but I live in a Mountain “ rain forest “ and it can get out of hand up here. I guess it’s just a Northwest issue LOL 😊
Spring is the season for farming. You plant multi-functional plants like nettle. I think that is a brilliant idea. Its very useful plant. Good luck my friend.
Thanks so much! Spring is so wonderful :)
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How cool!
We have a patch of these in our goat pen! Thanks for remindingme that I need to harvest them again...
I hope people on here buy some! This weed is pretty amazing! If you are worried about the stinging aspect, they lose their sting by being cooked, refrigerated, or frozen! :D
:) tis time for harvest here too! Yay!! Great addition about how they lose their sting! And thanks so much for the supportive words.
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They also loose the sting by being blended to fx a pesto! In that way you can eat then raw and get all the benefits! Even squashed between fingers will take the sting away AND if you rub the juice on the sting it will relieve the pain ❤
Have I told you about the time Jamie was in the World Nettle Eating Contest? @sagescrub @mountainjewel you could run a competition...🤣🤣
Seriously an AMAZING plant. Twine. Tea. Soup. Beer. ...
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Do you think i could get your nettle to grow in a pot?
Yes I do!
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Do you have any suggestions for me to be successful in helping the cuttings stay alive? I'd love to give it a shot! 🌱
Wow, I never knew you could eat these. I have them growing everywhere along the edge of my woods, the kids are always getting "stung", mostly considered it a nuisance. Does anyone on here have recipes or harvesting instructions they could point me to. I'll have to try it, maybe change my mind about this "weed" ;)
Hey @hhayweaver I did a post quite awhile back with some recipes for nettle smoothie and nettle potato soup and other ways of using it.
You can check it out at: https://steemit.com/naturalmedicine/@porters/my-love-affair-with-nettles
Awesome! Thanks for sharing this great resource of yours!
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@porters thanks for the info, soon the nettles will be coming up and I will try them. I've seen so many recipes on the internet, I'm excited. What do they taste like? What are they similar too?
To me they are very green tasting, that is why I like to combine it with mint in tea and why I add prunes or dates to my smoothies. I don't mind that green taste in my soups and feel it makes it richer tasting!
Cool! Glad to help share this familiarity with you and your family. Looks like @porters has you well covered! My favorite way is just steamed or lightly sautéed in a cast iron with some butter and salt. Also great additions to any soup. You can also make them like kale chips by dehydrating them, although they do crumble easily. But so so tasty!
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Okay, so I'm noticing things.
The leaves look a lot like strawberries, which also spread by rhizomes.
I also see comfrey and burdock look kinda similar and have similar uses and jobs to do.
Are plants like that? Where you can learn things from them based on what they look like?
I think sometimes similar features can be indicators of family or genus for sure (and hence similar use) yet I’m not sure if it stretches so far to say that rhizomes indicate a certain look of the plant. But I like where your heads at! Looking for patterns and similarities. So much of gardening is like that eh? Keep studying/observing it and you’re bound to make connections!
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That's what made me stop and look at what I learned is curly dock. We were out walking and it caught my eye cause it looked like comfrey. I think they're both dynamic accumulators, right?
You’ve been visited by @porters on behalf of Natural Medicine!
Your post brings the nettle under a different light! It's wonderful that you have an abundance that you can share with others who may not have it growing wild around them.
I love the nettles, especially since they are one of the first greens that come up in our area and they are so beneficial!
We are also running our fortnightly competition for steem rewards, where you can explore a plant medicine. This fortnight's plants are mullein, ginseng and alder... Plus a wild card where you can choose your own! Find out more Here
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Thanks @porters! Great distinction - yes some aren’t fortunate to have a wild nettle patch. We have one down by the creek, but it’s also nice to have one closer to the kitchen too! :)
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