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  • From: paul wheaton <paul@richsoil.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] stinging nettles as a farm crop
  • Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 11:13:03 -0600

Michael "Skeeter" Pilarski is a popular permaculture instructor well
known as a first class wildcrafter. Skeeter shows off a patch of
stinging nettle he is growing intentionally. This is in the fall.
He talks about getting three crops out of this patch each year.
First, a crop of edible leaves; then a crop of seeds (urinary tract
medicine) and finally a crop of root cuttings (prostate medicine).
He says that he gets about ten bucks a pound for stinging nettle root
cuttings and the small patch will produce about 35 pounds.

Skeeter says that stinging nettles are a dynamic accumulator,
accumulating iron and other minerals.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2vXlEPhwBE

(I am conducting an evil experiment and would like to ask for your
participation: please do the facebook "share" thing with this video.
Thanks!)



  • [permaculture] stinging nettles as a farm crop, paul wheaton, 03/26/2011

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