When I was about 8 we had a days foraging at our village school and each were told a certain plant, leaf, bark etc to look for. Later we all made something from them. I was given nettle and told to make nettle soup. All the other kids laughed at me for having to use nettle. But the nettle has stayed with me my whole life, as a teacher, food, tea, medicine, cordage and fibre for spinning and weavjng. I loved this video. Thankyou for making it
Hi. My mother came from the West Meath side of Dublin before moving to the UK, or, having to flee!. She is 87 and still going strong even after 12 children. 5 Generations to be exact. She fills us with many stories of the past, working as the 6 year old in the peat bogs, bringing a slab home for a penny a day. No utilities, schools or a food source. Making life , love and friendship from many areas. She talked about clovers, the sweet taste from childhood, many plants that kept them going and the many hardships they faced. She is a wealth of knowledge, just like yourself and an inspiration as I have my first allotment. You are very inspiring and I love your content as it takes me back to my mothers tales and the songs she sings in between. Thank you X
MicrobeRick, you are so blessed to have your mother, I'm 72, lost mine to cancer in 86, she was only 59 but very tough. Would you please explain about the peat bogs & the slab? I'm a country girl but do not understand? I know about clovers for food but very curious. Be blessed with your mother, we are to honor them. Smoky Mts, Tennessee, USA. Thank you
Hello. I'm in the USA. I was gifted a Roku stick for my birthday in March. I picked into your videos on youtube and have not stopped watching them. My Cherokee and Irish grandmothers helped me learn herbs when I was 18. I have dabbed in herbs my whole life but due to misfortunes in life I lost contact with me. I have a patch of nettles that are about 10 yrs old. I made your nettle soup. I was blown away to how delicious it is. Your videos have restarted my life. My brother got me started with honey bees a couple years ago. Life is looking up for me. I can't even begin to tell you how appreciated I am for you. My spirit is alive again. Thank you so much. Keep bringing the knowledge and Spirit. 🌻🐝🐓
In Greece, since ancient era yet, we 've be making nettlepie, nettle soup and nettle tea. And its itching stops by rubbing the area with a geranium leaf!! There is a very old Greek childs song we sing while doing so too!!!! Yiota,, Greece. 🌿🥀🌼
Dame here. Although I had to go docs for mental health reasons as my health was rapidly detrating. But I still enjoy herbal remedies (I'm a green witch after all)
A few years ago I found some nettles at my farm, and brought some home to plant in my backyard. They've been such a joy to have. So versatile. Teas, smoothies, in stir-fry and omelettes. I'm going to make this soup tonight on a chilly Spring day. Thanks so much Danu!
I never appreciated Nettles for years. When I was a child, my Grandmother would send me down to the bottom of the garden to collect nettles, which she threw into soups, stews, and tea - not once did I ever think that the fierce stinging that assaulted my legs, hands, arms and even my face was beneficial in any way!! I do love them now though. Another great video - you really do pack them with a great variety of information -from history, to medicinal, to cooking. You even matched the soup in that gorgeous green shawl .
I just came across this channel, so lovely!! I love it!! Ps I'm so glad to know that nettle can be cooked, I'm going to harvest some nettle from the mountain and cook it this week!!! ❤ Much love from a girl from Palestine
The stinging nettle that I harvested last summer was about up to my chest and it was a massive amount. Harvesting it was like doing a forbidden dance and it was fabulous. 😄
Lovely video Terri. I became interested in the uses of nettles many years when I read an article by an 80+ gentleman who cured his hip pain by stinging himself with it. At that time I had sciatica which was ruling my life.... long story short - I stung my hip and leg for a period of time - and it really worked.. I sting myself frequently just to keep things ticking over. I think it may also act as a blood purifier. Had a good old sting yesterday. Picked some nettles for Lady Ridley's soup. Makes delicious soup.. love your videos.. XX
For you Terri (you give so much, in your videos) : Put dryed nettle in water for half hour. Fry one onion (diced), some garlic too. Add water, or chiken stokk (do I spell right?). Chicken meat (if you eat meat), and the dryed nettle that was in water. Boil just little bit. Serve with rice, and lots of lemon :-).
Wow! I would never have thought of using Nettle like that. That is brilliant, thank you so much. (The spelling is stock - I knew what you meant though😄🙏. I will harvest more Nettle now that I know this. xx
@@DanusIrishHerbGarden This I have "stolen" more or less, from resipe of Middle East : called Mluhie. They use a wonderfull herb, called Dry Mallow. Just love it! I found out that Dry Mallow (that do not grow here), can be replaced by Nettle :-)! When you begin to eat this plate......hard to stop :-)!
One of my homesteader channels made this for his children, and you would not have believed the comment section...people are very misinformed! Great video. As always!❤🇮🇪🍀
It is sad to think of people being so divorced from Nature and all her healing. We share the same DNA with plants so our bodies recognise them when we take them in as food or medicine. Thanks for watching Pamela!
Nettles are a very kind & generous plant, quite contrary to their fierce reputation, which I feel is quite unfair as the stings are most beneficial. There is nothing to be afraid of at all.
Oh me oh my I just adore your video and it is perfect as I am in relationship with Nettle at the moment, well finishing up and heading to Red Clover but Nettle is around here and there when the season here is upon me. (soon) Happy Spring dear one.
This is wonderful. I will have a go at the soup! I also love Rosemary Gladstar's nettle pesto that I hope to make with wild ramps this spring. Love from Illinois (USA)
I am so happy I found your You Tube Channel, this is so enlightening and I love your shawl, it goes perfect with the outdoors and what your doing. So lovely and So Helpful! THANKS!
Hello there Terri, wonderful film.and thoroughly yum recipe for nettle soup.i will be taking an extra basket when I pop out to look for goose grass for my irls,nettle s for my and my husband. I do suffer with z lot of pain s,one is hip bursitis and I've been so tempted to sting my hips but not brave enough so far, I have injection s in my hips and wrist s but if this was to help with stings would be great, I'm always accidentally stinging my fingers whilst collecting greens s for my girls.yesterday I managed to collect wonderful soft fresh goosegrass from nearby allotments the gentleman working there was happy for me to help myself from the hedge. Its wonderful watching my girls eating away and recycling the freshly gathered greens into wonderful eggs.i have kept a few chickens for many years now and I love their company and watching them. Also always exciting to collect eggs,I have an array of colours in my basket now.,I really do love my girls, also love to give eggs to my children when they visit, and my friends. Well now thankyou terri so much. I love the films and learn so much,take care and bye for now 😊xx
Thanks for this Danu - I've been wanting to use nettles in soups and pesto for some time but haven't quite had the courage to do so. This has given me the little push I needed!
Growing up, I had a severe allergy that would cause awful, itching, swelling rashes on any Sun-exposed skin. I was the one on the beach in long sleeves, long pants, socks and gloves! Nettle was an absolute saviour. My Mum would make nettle tea and cold compresses adn these were honestly the only things that helped me. In college, and being poor students, my best friend and I would forage for nettle and make a pesto like sauce for pasta with it... Delicious and highly recommend. I love seeing folk love on nettle...:) A misunderstood plant with so many beautiful benefits. Thank you for this video!
Quelle joie pour moi, petite belge amoureuse de l'Irlande ( même si je n'ai fait qu'un séjour dans ce merveilleux pays, mes souvenirs sont tellement vivants en moi pour toujours) de vous suivre et de recevoir ce cadeau d'initiation des plantes médicinales et de leurs nombreux usages et tout cela en direct depuis votre univers enchanteur!! Vous êtes une belle personne inspirante! Un immense merci et une très longue et belle vie à vous!!
Merci beaucoup! Je suis tres heureuse á connaitre que vous etés inspiré. Excusé moi pour mon message et ma francais. Thank you so much and I am sorry that my French is not very good. I am out of practice.🙏
Hi thanks for sharing how to make nettle soup, I made some from our nettles in the garden and it was delicious. We really felt like it was a tonic. I added a little nutmeg and lemon with ours. Definitely will be making this again 💚
What a breath of fresh air you are Danu. Such a refreshing way to pass your knowledge to us. The saucepan lid without the knob tells me you are a woman from my own heart. Thankyou Danu
Thank you for this edifying video and that delicious sounding soup. I don't live where nettles grow, but I use the dried herb. I use it often. As you said it helps ease menopausal bleeding which it did when I had heavy menopausal bleeding. Quitting caffeine also reduced the bleeding and nettles supported my withdrawal from coffee. Stopping coffee not only reduced the bleeding but I discovered that I had natural energy without any caffeine input. When I use dried nettle, I make nourishing herbal infusions, as described by the American herbalist Susun Weed. These infusions use a lot of dried herb which are added to boiled water and let sit for four hours or even overnight. There are several herbs that can be used that way which are full of nutrients. I feel most drawn to the magic of nettles and oatstraw nourishing infusions. I used them for a month to tonify my nervous system prior to quitting smoking tobacco, and I actually achieved that goal without falling back into the habit. Green blessings to you!
Watching from Maine USA. I recently visited my family in Tennessee and brought back some wild nettles to plant in my garden here. Quite potent as my thumb up to my elbow was tingling for a week! Thank you for sharing your recipe for nettle soup. I plan to make it once I have enough green leaves.
Love the video ! Such a highlight of a wonderful herb/plant that is inspiring and reconnecting us with our ancestors who made use of these gifts from our Mother Earth. Your shawl and your hair are lovely. The kitchen reflects your passion. Watched you while stripping lemon verbena leaves i dried to make tea!Thank you Danu and many blessings!
Exactly White Dove. I was reading the other day that the plants connect us to the ancestors because they grow where our ancestors lie and so share their DNA, it's a lovely looping of sharing or circling. Lemon Verbena tea is a favourite of mine too. Blessings to you💚
You can know the world's tipped on its head when a herbalist website tells you to stay away from Mrs Nettle! Wow, I thought I'd seen everything until that was said! Hoping my growth will come in under my magnolia this coming spring.
My nettle story... When I was young, just starting a family of my own An elderly lady friend of the family that I barely knew came for a visit to my house. She noticed I had nettles growing in my garden. At that point I knew very little about them. She asked if she could have a good sized handful of them and I was more than happy to share. When we had collected up a nice sized bunch she proceeded to pull down her pants and bend over and promptly asked me to whack her on her hips and backside with them. 😳👁👁 I quickly recovered from my shock, as she explained that their stings are very helpful to relieve her aches and pains in that area... 🤩😂 Although she is gone now I’ve loved her and Nettles ever since 💝✨💖💫 Can we use dried nettles in stock and strain them out ? Will they still have some medicinal and healing properties using them that way? Thank You for sharing your wisdom and knowledge with us... 💝
She sounds like an amazing eccentric! Great that you got such a good introduction to Nettle and yes, adding them to your stock will infuse their healing properties into your stock or soup xx
Hello Terri lovely video always packed with interesting information.. So many surprises too just goes to show we never stop learning... Thankyou ... hugs & blessings 🌹💚
Hi Terri really enjoy seeing where you and family live, videos full of interesting information and beautiful Ireland too ... my paternal heritage is in County Roscommon. My grandfather was a man of the land on his own farm mostly growing vegetable crops. My father George Mcmanus came to England to join the RAF... his siblings still have businesses in Strikestown and other parts of Roscommon .. My own garden flourishes and is a haven not just for me but for all wild life to live feed and shelter ... hugs to you both . Thank you again for your reply. Regards Linda. 💚
Thank you so much for this video and your passing on your knowledge. I made the soup! I live in the Pacific NW of Washington State in the USA where there are many nettles offering themselves in the clean air of the forests. After the first day, I am experiencing some gentle cleansing and also a bright mental focus energy. 🤗
I have stinging nettle growing wild around my garden at summer trailer.....I keep getting stung....well now I will harvest it and make soup! Thank you for this video. Love your shawl.
Try it i shall , i grow nettles and dry them for tea , i put them in the cup and stir and drink them chewing as i go, it's my favourite tea choice so far !
i have A LOT of nettles around my house... i also make pies... omelettes...and bread with nettles i also dry them to drink as tea in the winter and put in smoothies... i also give some to my dogs nettles are one of the best plants ❤️
After watching your video, I was inspired to go straight out into the garden and pick nettles to make this soup. It truly is delicious and fortifying! Thankyou x
Nettle one of the best mutli purpose edible plants, re the Fibres apparently in one of world wars the German Army uniforms were made of Nettle fibre. I have a feeling that I remember reading that Nettle was in the same family as Hemp, which we know is used for its fibre (etc).
Thanks for your lovely video.👌🏼💚💖 We know about that Nettle green leaves how that is good benefit for bodies. I like your simple way of making this Soup. 😋😋😋👌🏼 Please make a video about how to make the Apple vinegar. I love 💕 your green Shawl too.
Layer your nettles into a vegetarian lasagna - or even a meat lasagna. They are absolutely amazing in this! I blanched many last year & then froze them for cooking with later. Have already been out harvesting nettles this year, the younger shoots. I use them in food, teas, soaps, skin care & hair care products & much more. Really an amazing plant! Time to go harvesting again before they get really big. They're fine for teas when larger, but can get quite tough & fibrous for cooking with at that stage.
Thanks lovely Terri…I’ve been letting our Nettles grow …we found them when Husband took down the old fence and put in a Bay Laurel Hedging…they were under the fence lol. I have just cut the Nettle all back this week and I was stung a bit lol but I had a nice Salt and Clay bath…and I’m fine. Going to make this today with what I gathered. Lovely blessings. ❤️🌻🌹☘️
I love your channel Terri! I will definitely give this a go when I see my nettles coming up. I'm planning on having lots of areas around my garden for nettles when we move. You should also tell people how beneficial they are for our native butterflies, so many depend on it. Could you do a video on making apple cider vinegar? I tried and made what I later learned was Apple scrap vinegar, not the same thing. Ps. You look great in that green shawl!
Thanks for the compliment Mary. So happy to hear you are loving the channel. You are right about the butterflies loving Nettles, I find tons of caterpillars on them every year. As for Apple Cider Vinegar, I have only made it once but I will try and make a vid after harvest. xx
Great video! I've watched it several times ;) I went out yesterday and picked some nettles and hung some to dry for tea and medicine later. I also made a tincture and infused some in oil for making salve, then I blanched some to put in the freezer, after that I made pesto sauce and with what I had left I made a big pot of soup. I left out enough for dinner and lunch today. The rest went In the freezer for later. I absolutely love stinging nettles! And I truly enjoy all of your videos Terri. Thank you so much!
Oh! I started writing about nettles in my medicinal herb journal today, even though I hadn't planned to do it today, and then you've uploaded this video, coincidence - i think not. Thanks for this video, it was lovely :D
This sounds lovely you said saute the nettles like spinach and it was the heat that takes the sting out is that the same with the boiling. Sorry I've never used nettles as an herb always just on the burn Bank where I got stung by them I think this sounds very interesting and wonderful
Thank you, for sharing, my dearest Wife Carol used to make this many Years ago, now I’m on my own I think I’ll start making it again, it’ll bring me closer to her again.
A very lovely and interesting video. Perfect for late March (so green)🥰 Thank you for sharing your knowledge and recipe. Many happy blessing 🌟 Kathleen
The soup looks delicious. I'm definately going to make it. We have tons of nettles on our grounds. A few days ago we asked a farmer to clear the one plot which looked like a jungle gone wrong. I was dragging fallen branches to make a pile. I was also collecting dandelions, and bent down to pick some flowers. I didn't notice I was sticking my hands into nettles. It stung like crazy for hours. My thumb and index finger were on fire. 😂😂 I wasn't wearing my gloves. I know nettles are a good weed but didn't know what to do with them. Nettle soup it is. Thank you. 😁
I finally have some ideas about what to do with all the abundant nettle growing wildly in my garden; it seems to flourish in colder climates and higher altitudes; thank you for the very informative video; I learned so much; jeanne-marie
There are nettles here in Japan but they don’t sting. So when I used to bring friends over to Europe I had to warn them. Some learned the hard way so they learned about dock leaves.
Ha ha! That's the best way to learn😊 Poor things! We have Dead Nettle here and Hemp Nettle and other Nettles that don't sting. Maybe there will be stinging Nettles out in the Japanese wild??
just found your channel. lovely woman, lovely content! always great to connect with a wisewoman! 💚 i had to adopt nettle seeds from Germany to plant in my backyard garden here in Pennsylvania. we especially love nettle as a nourishing herbal infusion, hot or cold. thank you, Terri, for the informative videos!
Glad you stumbled across us and thanks for your lovely words. I love Nettles too, hot or cold, soup or pesto, such a lovely green, earthy, refreshing taste.🌿🙏
I love your videos Terri, I don’t have nettle in my garden but spotting beautiful lush growths near where I live so will forage a little on my next walk. I’m really focused on my health and reducing my sugar intake, your videos are so inspiring. Thank you x
Thank you for this video. I live on land with lots of nettles, which someone told me is a sign that the soil is balanced and healthy. New sub with the "bell" - Washington state, USA
Yes, having Nettles is regarded as a good sign. They are full of minerals and of course, share them out with their neighbours because of their long roots.
