Green Sleeves
1. Reason to wear gloves in April: Stinging Nettles from my neighbor's farm.
2. On the move fast food. Look what else Bryce can do HERE.
3. Rip Van Winkle slept here.
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Bryce is adorable!! Now there will never be a quiet moment again.
Posted by: kenju | April 14, 2009 10:04 AM
Nettles, good for you! And I love that huge old tree. What it has seen go by, without being asleep with Rip!
Posted by: Leslie | April 14, 2009 2:32 PM
Maybe Rip went to Virginia Tech. That's where the photo was taken, last week when I visited the duck pond.
Posted by: colleen | April 14, 2009 3:12 PM
Are you going to make soup or tea from them? We have lots of them around here, but i never used them to make anything.
Posted by: meno | April 14, 2009 4:48 PM
I steamed them up like spinach and ate them. Delicious. I used to make a Nettles tea infusion using dried leaves but fresh ones probably work as well, just steep for 6 hours or so and the leaves off and drink. It's very nourishing, recommended by my favorite herbalist Susun Weed.
Posted by: colleen | April 14, 2009 4:59 PM
I was going to ask what you did with those things and I see your note. I didn't even see in your link where they were edible. You are so brave. I would always be afraid I had the wrong plant. It looks almost like those wild strawberry vines I have popping up everywhere.
I love Bryce's photo standing and eating, he is so cute!
Posted by: Deana | April 14, 2009 6:50 PM
ouch - have i been stung by nettles! i know cooking them is supposed to disable the stinging hairs, but i would be so afraid my throat might feel like my hand! i don't think i could put them in my mouth! :)
Posted by: sky | April 15, 2009 1:42 AM
oh, steamed nettles, huh. I haven't had them like that. I've heard them as an infusion. How's the taste? like spinach too?
Posted by: Pearl | April 15, 2009 10:46 AM
Taste green, not as much like spinach as lamb's quarters.
Posted by: colleen | April 15, 2009 10:51 AM
I love that Byrce, Byrce, Baby can walk now. He is a living doll.
I love that huge tree too, where the heck is it located? xo
Posted by: Sherry | April 15, 2009 6:02 PM
I answered that in comment #2. I'll take you there next time you visit. We can feed the ducks.
Posted by: colleen | April 15, 2009 6:18 PM
what a beautiful old soul...sandy
Posted by: sandy | April 18, 2009 6:52 AM