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.