A little while back, I showed you a picture of my emerging Nettle field. For the past few days, I have been harvesting nettles at least once a day.
I take a shallow bowl and my scissors. I push the bowl under the area I want to harvest and pull the nettles with my scissors over the bowl.
Snip.
Snap.
And the baby nettles fall right into the bowl without getting a chance to sting me. Then, I throw them into a bowl with water to wash them, lift them with tongues into a colander and we are ready to use them for a meal.
So far, I had chicken soup with nettles, curried garbanzo beans with spinach and nettles, an omlette, nettle tea and some in a salad.
I love to eat my weeds. Do you?
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