How to Find & Use Stinging Nettle
Nettle is one of my favorite herbs. There’s a special excitement that comes with nettle’s emergence in the spring since it’s one of the first herbal medicines and wild foods we can harvest each year. Nettle is abundant, easily recognizable and very useful. Urtica, as it’s known in Latin, is a widespread plant that grows throughout North America. It tends to grow in disturbed areas such as fields, roadsides, ditches and empty lots. The plant is fairly adaptable and though ofte