The leaves are delicious and absolutely packed with nutrition! Use them like any other greens; when you cook them the sting goes away. I grow them on my deck in a pot, and try to eat them daily.
Soak the bark in water and try every day to pull of strips from the bark, probably on the inside. Primitive Technology has a video where he makes rope from bark fibers.
The variety you show in the very beginning of the video has very broad leaves for what I know as stinging nettle, is it also edible because I love stinging nettle greens
hey friend! there are metric tonnes of cool, applicable, and edible fungi in the pacific northwest. if you want to make a trip out, I could teach you a thing or two, or point you in the direction of people who make a livelihood off of it!
You totally just wasted a very good source of nutrition. Stinging Nettles is one of the most nutritious plants there is and also one of the better tasting wild herbs. Makes a nice tea also. Also if your truly desperate for cordage you can quickly and easily use strips of your clothing or even hair to make. Remember turn those nettle leaves into soup or tea.
😂😂😂 You do realize that stinging nettles grow in patches, right ? If you find a stinging nettle, you will find thousands more in the surrounding area. You can't be serious with your recommendation to use clothes (much more valuable than stinging nettles because you can always find more nettles, but you won't find new clothes in the wilderness that easily) or hair (in survival situations you cut your hair short, to prevent pests like lice and to reduce the amount of water needed to wash yourself).
