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  • From: Claude William Genest <genest@together.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Stinging nettle info
  • Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 15:58:59 -0400

Title: Re: [permaculture] Stinging nettle info
how to get rid of the hairs, or did I miss a post?


Boiling it or steaming it - also, relatively hairless when you get it in the spring....

Did you know the Romans used Nettles to keep warm ? They'd rub it all over themselves..Now that's tough !
( apprently the sting is therapeutic)

The fiber was used for clothes production in England in WW2

- Essential plant in Biodynamic preps...

Claude


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