A brush with a stalk of springtime nettles feels like an attack of angry army ants. They sting, and can make you want to to run away. For an increasing number of cooks, however, the bite of formic ...

I was at an event in Canton helping a friend sell candles, and I talked to customers about candles and plants. Next to our booth we had a fellow selling cactus and succulents in baskets he made. I ...

MUNCIE, Ind. – My introduction to stinging nettle came in my youth when a group of us went swimming in a local farm pond. Instead of exiting the way I entered, I decided to climb up an unmown bank.

Only a handful of endangered corncrakes return each year to Rathlin Island in Northern Ireland, but volunteers are working hard to increase their number by growing nettles to give them cover, the BBC ...

Forager Nicole Zempel shares how to harvest the bounty of the nettle plant. Forager Nicole Zempel shares how to harvest the food, medicinal and other benefits of the stinging nettle plant. One of the ...

After cooking nettles, you can fish out leaves versus discarding liquid and sip as tea. Similar to spinach, nettles have a high water content and will shrink considerably when cooked. Four cups of raw ...

ANSBACH, Germany — Did you know that stinging nettles can be so much more than just a painful nuisance? Many people living in Germany have probably accidentally come into contact with them at some ...

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