Join me in a fun 6 hour nettle intensive class at the Freeman Homestead in East Skagit County, foraging nettles, making medicine, and enjoying culinary nettle delights.
This class will be part nutritional education/nettle forage/medicinal making/culinary class.
The day will be packed with teaching you about the amazing nutritional/medicinal values of nettles; giving you time to forage for your own nettles, come back to the homestead to learn how to make medicine with your nettles (like your ancient foremothers used to). and explore how to cook with nettles (all hands-on).
Lunch - Nettle Lasagna (salad and artisanal crunchy bread with nettle butter)
Dessert - Lemon Lavender Nettle Cupcakes and Lemon Nettle Cake with Blackberries (divine)
Group will make together:
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Nettle "Energy" Truffles
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Nettle Pesto
Recipes will be provided.
Everyone will bring home culinary delights and the medicinals you make.
A short summary on Nettle (Urtica dioica)
Nettle (Urtica dioica) is my hands-down favorite plant to harvest. It is LEGION in its practical uses for a myriad of health issues and has many medicinal uses as well as being a superfood powerhouse of a nutritive plant. Not many plants can compare to its nutritional benefits.
Nettle can be cooked and eaten, brewed as beer, infused as tea or tincture, and much more. It was once one of the most important plants used in the manufacture of cloth, and many judged nettle fabric to be finer than cotton or linen.
The ancient Greeks and Romans cultivated more acres of nettle than any other crop, and they used it extensively as food and medicine as well as in clothing.
Nutritional/Medicinal Uses
Rich in a full spectrum of vitamins and minerals, especially iron and calcium, nettle is an excellent tonic herb (taken daily) and is useful for children's "growing pains" and "creaky joints" that ache and are painful.
Nettle cleanses the blood and tones up the whole system. It also helps to expel exess mucus from all parts of the body.
Nettle has anti-histamine properties that make it an excellent remedy for allergies and hayfever.
Because of its nutritive properties and positive effects on the liver, nettle is also an excellent tonic for the reproductive system of both men and women.
Nettle is an amazing plant to use for PMS and menstrual difficulties, fertility issues, and menopausal issues, and nettle seeds are used for both a preventive and a curative for prostate issues.
I use nettle personally as a general tonic to fortify and build my energy when I'm overworked and tired (think exhausted adrenals). This is one of my favorite all-around remedies.
Nettle makes an amazing tea, and is one of the most delicious greens ever, especially sauteed with butter and garlic or in a nettle lasagna or lemon nettle lavender cupcakes for a divine dessert.
Nettle season is quickly coming to a close. Once the plants start flowering the harvest is over. Then, we have to wait another whole year to be able to harvest again. :(
This nettle class is the ONLY class that will be offered for the season. The next class will not be until next year.
So, if this is something you have always wanted to do, DO IT! Don't think twice about it. Trust me, you will NOT regret it, You will have so much fun and come away with so much knowledge about this amazing nutritive/medicinal plant, you will kick yourself for not taking a class sooner.
Bring a friend, a relative, come alone and make new friends, find your tribe.....everyone who comes are there for the same reason.....to learn traditional medicine making skills, to start the healing journey (like myself), and to learn how to cook with nettles. This class is ALL hands-on and you will go home with medicine (YOU made) and delicious treats the group made.
I'm only taking 20 participants for this class.
I prefer small classes so nobody gets lost in the group and feels left out.
I hope it will be YOU who decides (like I did years ago) to do something you have always wanted to do.....forage, wildcraft, make medicine, find yourself in nature.
If you feel this class is calling to your inner creative spirit....don't hesitate to sign up today. Just do it. You will NOT regret it.
Hope to see you at the Freeman Homestead (Lyman, WA) for a fun filled amazing day!!
$125 for 6-hour nutrition/forage/medicinal making/culinary class
Please pre-register and pre-pay before class....I'm looking forward to seeing you there! <3
Once registered, I will email you the venue address and a supply list for the class.
Thank you,
Darci Ridenhour, BS, NTP, Recovery Coach, Wildcrafter
