Thank you for this. I have an abundance of dead nettle. I've always thought the flowers look like bunny heads 😀 I've been studying herbs and plants for so long and I'm "dead" serious you have taught me more in your videos than I have learned in any book in all these years.
This plant is my youth. We used to go out on the fields and collect these, and the white dead nettle as well and we would suck out the nectar within the flowers. Also those sweet, little droplets are perfect for when you´ve accidentally brushed against a stinging nettle! !!!Every time I smell this plant (they do smell here) it takes me right back to those days. How lovely to come across this video!
Purple dead nettle thrives here in East TN, and we're thankful for it. With our mild winters sometimes there's green growth all year long. In spring once it starts perking up, we feed small amounts of it to our chickens and rabbits almost every day. I usually add some fresh purple dead nettle when I make comfrey or "weed tea" fertilizer. I figure it's good at bringing minerals etc out of our heavy clay soil and it's generally pretty vigorous, so it likely adds a boost to homemade fertilizers or compost, too.
Well, your dead nettle brain dump has just earned you another subscriber. 😁! I love your energy. I was weeding this stuff out of a client’s garden on Thursday and found myself wondering about it’s foraging uses! And this morning, here you are!! Half the stuff we pulled out for “trash” in that mulch patch on a Thursday was edible and it was killing me to just throw it on the compost pile. We were pulling deadnettle, plantain, dandelion, wild onion, even wild strawberries were found! Alas, client wanted an empty bed all ready to plant his yearly (sometimes perennial!) “pretty plants”... the same ones he will pay someone to pull out and replace come winter time. This drives me nuts....
I really like the way. You are very down-to-earth and not trying to impress Anyone with a bunch of School book Verbage. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
you are incredible, I'm so happy to find someone who gets as excited about herbs and plants as me. You clearly are very knowledgeable on this topic and I can't wait to learn more from your channel! Thank you!
I just came across this beautiful flower the other day and wondered what it was and then randomly came across your video 😊 Thank you from Baltimore, Maryland ❤
Girl I’m from Virginia but I live in Baltimore with my husband who is from here and I tried my hardest to explain this plant because it’s growing in our yard and he was looking at me like “ yeah that’s that country sh.t “ 😂 had me rollin
Ooh, I'll tincture this along side my dandelions I just picked ! I hate mowing my yard, I feel like I'm loosing my weedy herbs. Luckily I only mow about once a month so it gives me time to harvest. Blessings to from Linda in Georgia.
There's a new movement sweeping ( I hope) the country. It's called No Mow May. People are deliberately not mowing their lawns to let the flowers bloom in order to help the bee population regenerate. I frankly never mow until all the flowers are gone just because it looks so amazing..but now there is an even bigger reason 🙃 NY Times did an article on No Mow May and it's taking off in more and more towns across the country.
this plant has been calling me since she’s come up this spring but i haven’t stopped to learn about her, thanks so much for another amazing video april!
Me too!!! It’s so weird. I’ve been noticing her all over everywhere lately and kept thinking I need to identify this. Finally, just yesterday I asked a wise and seasoned gardener friend if she knew what it was and she told me it’s a mint, look at the stem, and she wasn’t sure but thought it is called deadnettle. Then today this pops up in my feed.
@@tatzja8074 I've had the same thing going on this year. I made a delicious rice and purple dead nettle stir fry one weekend recently and I'm currently making some infused oil. I might try adding arnica to a small portion of the oil and creating a salve. I liked the part where she talked about the mild flavor compared to others in the mint family, and the way this plant helps the nervous system get into balance.
I get these callings too. Is there a word for it lol? I literally get pulled towards plants or mushrooms I keep coming across only to find out they're medicinal for exactly what I need. Like a weird plant intuition/connection? Dead nettle has been drawing me in lately too
Please don't ever stop making videos! As a new herbalist, I am trying to learn everything I can and your videos have been SO helpful. I have purple dead nettle in my yard and never even knew.
Thank you for taking the time to share. I’m planning to harvest some today as it grows abundantly in my backyard and I wanted to learn about its potential uses so this was super helpful. ❤
Shalom from Israel. I've fallen in love with your humanness! I actually took a course from a licensed herbal doctor here in Israel. She is licensed to receive clients, diagnose, concoct from our wild plants, and then prescribe the coctions to her clients. I learned a lot from her. However, your down-to-earth videos are so inviting and liberating. At times the measuring and calculating I was shown to do slowed me down and caused me to double-check and question my work. Since I am not a licensed doctor of wild herbal medicine I have adopted more of your approach in my world of providing for my family. Thanks so much....human-on!
We have a lot of purple dead nettle (and chickweed!) on our land. It's so beautiful in our orchard. I've missed seeing your videos. Glad to see this one.
Thank you for this video. Here in the Ohio River Valley purple dead nettle thrives - always wondered if it had useful properties. I'll make a tincture of it, teas and infusions as they all have different uses.
My son and I call this plant the Archangel plant. I dried some in case we want to use it. I tasted it this year and was surprised how strong the flavor is. Thank you for the information on this plant! :)
I went to Seattle today to the Tulip Festival and saw this everywhere and took a pic of it to come home and identify it. I KNEW it was a mint. I picked some to see if it was minty. Here you are reading my baby herbalist mind 😬 thanks for sharing APRIL
I just stumbled across this video & am so glad I did . I have several pics of myself , mother , grandmother , great grandmother AND great great grandmother , so they have 5 , FIVE , generations in them . Now back to this .... the grandmother's would use many things like this & I just barely remember some of this stuff . I will definitely follow this gal to learn more , much more .
No.... Thank u for being u! I so appreciate u & what u do for our community. I've learned so much through ur videos. Please never stop what u do. U r so appreciated 👍☺️
Oh, am I glad I stumbled on "her"! "She" is funny yet informative and I can't get enough!!! Please don't stop posting .. I really do enjoy your content & earthy self ❤ thanks for taking the time to share!
April, you're amazing :) your humor is hilarious, I love your respect for plants (using "she" humanizes it for us and really helps us connect with nature more), and your energy is just fabulous :) love from northern Michigan
I've watched all your videos and even got a notebook to take notes to refer back to. You've taught so many of us so very much. Thank you, thank you for sharing your knowledge with us!! ❤️
Was so glad to wake up to a notification from you (I’m in Australia)……I’ve been working my way through your videos, since finding you here, a little while ago, making tinctures and infused oils, it’s very empowering ………you’re an amazing human, on so many levels, thank you for all the info and guidance!
So cool! I took a picture of this lovely, purple "weed" growing in my yard weeks ago. I wanted to investigate, but I got so busy with little seedlings. Today, April to the rescue! Thank you for all the information! 🌱
My lawn has had a ton of the purple dead nettle this yr, my yard looked beautiful! The 🐝 🐝 🐝 love her too! Thank u for telling us all about her. I dried a bunch last yr just because, though I wasn't really sure what do do w/ her then, thanks!😃
Excellent information is always. If only I could find a woman like you to share my newfound journey of living off grid who enjoys the nature and what it gives us, my life would be complete. I have truly enjoyed your videos for a long time now.
Where have you been all my life. I LOVE YOU. Your channel is fabulous, What a wealth of knowledge you are. Thank you so much for sharing this valuable information and helping to keep this ancient tradition alive.
Hiya sweet Soul 😁 so good to hear your chirpy voice, brightening my day as always. Thanks for the clarification of this plant, saw it yesterday on my walk and wondered about 'her'🤗, love the syncronisity 🌱💐☀️
I only get a little of this in my yard every year and was bummed this year because mine caught some kind of powder fungus so can’t use it for the first time since I have lived here. A new herb popped up in my yard this year that is just gorgeous. It is called Brownes Savory and it is mint-like. Very pretty flowers!
I smiled when you said Oregon. I live in Oregon and I have learn heaps about herbs, salves and all the medicinal tinctures, etc, while living here for the last 12 years. I have pounds of purple dead nettle all over my property. I've harvested about a pound worth and dehydrated it, and I have beautiful jars filled and waiting to be used. ❤ love your videos!!!!! Please keep them coming.
I get so excited when she finally pops up in our woods in North West Indiana. (Later than every where else around here) but I think she smells VERY musty! I'm nervous to use her in tea. I also want to add that I have learned SO much from you and absolutely LOVE your videos and the education! Thanks for doing what you do!
Yeah she's a bit musty but I notice it really depends on the type of soil she's growing in. However the musty flavor IMO doesn't impact the flavor of the tea too much.
Interesting. The dead nettle where I live isn't musty at all. It's right by a creek that floods over the land during heavy rains, though. So maybe the floods are keeping the soil here clean. Or maybe white dead nettle is less musty. Mine looks like a hybrid of the two.
@@sheisofthewoods can I harvest it and dry it out for a later date? Also is there a way to make tencher without alcohol? And can it be used as a topical? I make a topical *sav with garlic,coconut oil, and lavender oil and I'm wondering if I could add dpn?
Thank you April for being human, I too am human and it's getting harder to find people that are down to earth as the saying use to be. I too have plenty of dead nettle growing in my yard. I will dry some for tea and make a tincture too.
I have missed your videos! ❤️❤️ I have missed my wonderful plant allies, being outside, learning and gathering. So thankful hibernation is over!! Thinks are just starting to come to life here in Michigan!
I love you so much. The information you put out is so helpful. I am retired now and I want to learn so much about wildcrafting. Thank you so much. From Big Cabin, Oklahoma
Last year I found a big patch of it at the kids' house, got all excited, they looked at me like I'm a crazy person, but kindly let me harvest enough for a quart of tincture...which I put in the tincture cabinet and forgot about😂😂😂 So thank you so much for this video. She is out and going into service, which I'm grateful to have her. Take care
@@flipwith-faith You get a jar that's the appropriate size for how much nettle you have. Cut your pieces a little bit smaller with scissors and drop them in the jar. When it's full but not jam packed full, you'll need room for your vodka, pour 100 proof vodka over the nettle til you get to the rim of the jar. Put the lid on, label your jar, put it in a cool dark place for 6-8 weeks. When time's up, strain your tincture and enjoy. April has tons of videos showing how to do this. I hope you can watch as many as you've got time for 🙂. I learned from her!
I seen some leaves green with parts a darker purple. I was walking on a side walk & came across w.e. Plant had them leaves. You do good videos & have a beautiful soul. Blessing & good health to everyone. One love. ✌
I love this plant! I've known about it for awhile but recently got a dehydrator and have been trying different things and it makes a REALLY good tea, and I've been taking a gulp or 2 everyday for 3 weeks and been felling great. Also, 2 nights ago I burned the crap outta my finger camping (picked up a hot grill that I sanitized red hot, pulled it out with a stick then like an idiot turned around and grabbed it) it IMMEDIATELY bubbled up, white blister about 2 inches long. So I thought "lets try this" so I grabbed some up, chewed it, packed it on my finger and wrapped in duct tape. In 10 minutes I didn't even notice it. Took it off about 4 hours later and next day 0 pain, I mean ZERO pain and there is no blister to pop. Skin still had that white line but it was smooth with the rest of my flesh (it did turn my finger green and hard to wash off, but that's a small price to pay) as of today it is 98% healed. It's not invasive, its a Godsend! Grab it up! use it!
That's amazing. Burns are so painful glad it worked. God gave us everything we just need to learn more on how to use them. We are so lucky to have people share what they learned from using different plants. I'm just learning and I feel like this puts me even closer to nature. What a wonderful journey : )
@@sheisofthewoods how many sprigs would we need for a pot of tea? I'd like to use enough for allergies & regularity.. ♡ thank you for the gift of your knowledge! I'm excited to see more of your videos!
Thank you! I have a new home and now I know what the mysterious mint like plant that is growing EVERYWHERE is!!!! And it's just what I need for my mother! So grateful !!! (I took notes!)
I keep harvesting these beauties out of my yard and dehydrating them in the back window of my otherwise useless car lol. Other than immune modulating, I was planning to use her for muscle relaxation in a salve preparation but now I'm thinking I should enhance her anti inflammatory traits with a different driver or supportive herb. What would you recommend?
@@sheisofthewoods Thank you! I don't have california poppy here in Hungary (as far as I know) but I have plenty of other poppies. I'm binge watching your channel tonight for inspiration. 🥰
I friggin love you lady! I just found your channel today... Where have you been my whole life! You are pure gold! Love your authenticity on top if the invaluable knowledge! 🌸
I learned a little folklore behind these the other day. The faeries kept hiding the centipede shoes, making him late meeting a lady centipede. So she suggests he hides his shoes on the dead nettle plant. The faeries, thinking it would sting them, wouldn't take them anymore. I think the flowers are meant to be the shoes? Adorable stuff. Love your energy!
Thank you 🌿🌱Great video . Very informative. It’s been everywhere for me lately , and your video popped up. A message direct from spirit and the fairies . 🌱🌿💫
The plants just seem to be a part of you and you know them so well! I have several herb books, however, I feel much more comfortable with your knowledge of them. Thank you and I adore your humanness!!!
I'm a mountain tinker in Kentucky. I fix things. I'm so glad to have researched your channel. I watch a lot of know your land videos. You do a good job.
I’ve been always been interested on natural remedies and keep seeing this plant all over my yard and I thought about killing it but I L💜VE Purple so much, I just never got to it. Now that I’ve learned that she’s absolutely important to my health I’ll just leave her alone and use her wisely. Thank you so much for educating me on this plant.
Thank you for this. I have an abundance of dead nettle. I've always thought the flowers look like bunny heads 😀 I've been studying herbs and plants for so long and I'm "dead" serious you have taught me more in your videos than I have learned in any book in all these years.
Ditto!
Yup
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Yup yes ma'am
love the teaching style and the fabulous info.
This lady has the BEST foraging videos...period! 🙂
We love your humanity and your brain dumps. You have empowered me to try new things! Love all you do!
This plant is my youth. We used to go out on the fields and collect these, and the white dead nettle as well and we would suck out the nectar within the flowers. Also those sweet, little droplets are perfect for when you´ve accidentally brushed against a stinging nettle! !!!Every time I smell this plant (they do smell here) it takes me right back to those days. How lovely to come across this video!
I have this everywhere in my yard! The flowers are SO AMAZING! They’re tiny but remind me of mini orchids.
I just love this lady. Her knowledge, her explanations, her fun personality and she is so cute.
Love this woman. She's got such a pure soul.
Thank you. I wasn't sure if I could dehydrate this and retain the properties of it!!!!🎉
I’m wondering that too.
Purple dead nettle thrives here in East TN, and we're thankful for it. With our mild winters sometimes there's green growth all year long. In spring once it starts perking up, we feed small amounts of it to our chickens and rabbits almost every day.
I usually add some fresh purple dead nettle when I make comfrey or "weed tea" fertilizer. I figure it's good at bringing minerals etc out of our heavy clay soil and it's generally pretty vigorous, so it likely adds a boost to homemade fertilizers or compost, too.
Thank u My Little Wood Imp for the education of the Purple Nettle! I have this all over my yard! Blessed Be!
Well, your dead nettle brain dump has just earned you another subscriber. 😁! I love your energy. I was weeding this stuff out of a client’s garden on Thursday and found myself wondering about it’s foraging uses! And this morning, here you are!!
Half the stuff we pulled out for “trash” in that mulch patch on a Thursday was edible and it was killing me to just throw it on the compost pile. We were pulling deadnettle, plantain, dandelion, wild onion, even wild strawberries were found!
Alas, client wanted an empty bed all ready to plant his yearly (sometimes perennial!) “pretty plants”... the same ones he will pay someone to pull out and replace come winter time. This drives me nuts....
Maybe show her some beautiful herbs she could plant with perrinolas. Gotta' sell it lol.✌💜
That would drive me nuts too.. so wasteful
I really like the way. You are very down-to-earth and not trying to impress Anyone with a bunch of
School book Verbage.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Bought a little house in the mountains of NW California. This is in my yard everywhere! It was new to me. Thanks for the lesson.
Purple Dead Nettle is hands down one of my favorite little herbs. ❤️❤️❤️
Hello so very new to this. Do you just put a piece of this dead nettle in your tea or food? Thank you.
I too have her in abundance. In her very first days of appearance this year, she was already feeding the native bees, especially bumblebees!
you are incredible, I'm so happy to find someone who gets as excited about herbs and plants as me. You clearly are very knowledgeable on this topic and I can't wait to learn more from your channel! Thank you!
I just came across this beautiful flower the other day and wondered what it was and then randomly came across your video 😊 Thank you from Baltimore, Maryland ❤
Girl I’m from Virginia but I live in Baltimore with my husband who is from here and I tried my hardest to explain this plant because it’s growing in our yard and he was looking at me like “ yeah that’s that country sh.t “ 😂 had me rollin
Ooh, I'll tincture this along side my dandelions I just picked ! I hate mowing my yard, I feel like I'm loosing my weedy herbs. Luckily I only mow about once a month so it gives me time to harvest. Blessings to from Linda in Georgia.
There's a new movement sweeping ( I hope) the country. It's called No Mow May. People are deliberately not mowing their lawns to let the flowers bloom in order to help the bee population regenerate. I frankly never mow until all the flowers are gone just because it looks so amazing..but now there is an even bigger reason 🙃 NY Times did an article on No Mow May and it's taking off in more and more towns across the country.
South Georgia here 🩵
Thank you for your time and giving us your knowledge for free
You are an awesome person. ❤
this plant has been calling me since she’s come up this spring but i haven’t stopped to learn about her, thanks so much for another amazing video april!
Me too!!! It’s so weird. I’ve been noticing her all over everywhere lately and kept thinking I need to identify this. Finally, just yesterday I asked a wise and seasoned gardener friend if she knew what it was and she told me it’s a mint, look at the stem, and she wasn’t sure but thought it is called deadnettle. Then today this pops up in my feed.
@@tatzja8074 I've had the same thing going on this year. I made a delicious rice and purple dead nettle stir fry one weekend recently and I'm currently making some infused oil. I might try adding arnica to a small portion of the oil and creating a salve.
I liked the part where she talked about the mild flavor compared to others in the mint family, and the way this plant helps the nervous system get into balance.
She doesn’t want you picking her!
I get these callings too. Is there a word for it lol? I literally get pulled towards plants or mushrooms I keep coming across only to find out they're medicinal for exactly what I need. Like a weird plant intuition/connection? Dead nettle has been drawing me in lately too
@@seharris11 I believe the word is “Providence.” 💖
Please don't ever stop making videos! As a new herbalist, I am trying to learn everything I can and your videos have been SO helpful. I have purple dead nettle in my yard and never even knew.
Thank you for taking the time to share. I’m planning to harvest some today as it grows abundantly in my backyard and I wanted to learn about its potential uses so this was super helpful. ❤
Shalom from Israel.
I've fallen in love with your humanness!
I actually took a course from a licensed herbal doctor here in Israel. She is licensed to receive clients, diagnose, concoct from our wild plants, and then prescribe the coctions to her clients. I learned a lot from her. However, your down-to-earth videos are so inviting and liberating. At times the measuring and calculating I was shown to do slowed me down and caused me to double-check and question my work. Since I am not a licensed doctor of wild herbal medicine I have adopted more of your approach in my world of providing for my family. Thanks so much....human-on!
Hello so very new to this. Do you just put a piece of this dead nettle in your tea or food? Thank you.
I love your humanness, and your brain dumps are much appreciated!
We have a lot of purple dead nettle (and chickweed!) on our land. It's so beautiful in our orchard.
I've missed seeing your videos. Glad to see this one.
I stopped by because my last name is Nettles and I wanted to learn about this plant that takes over my yard. Great video
Thank you for this video. Here in the Ohio River Valley purple dead nettle thrives - always wondered if it had useful properties. I'll make a tincture of it, teas and infusions as they all have different uses.
Add a bit to teas, mostly though I compost it, good for the garden then😁
Does yours have a scent of ammonia. I have this popping up in my yard.
I live near the Ohio River too! Yes, it's all over here. Very pretty to bumblebees too.
My son and I call this plant the Archangel plant. I dried some in case we want to use it. I tasted it this year and was surprised how strong the flavor is. Thank you for the information on this plant! :)
I went to Seattle today to the Tulip Festival and saw this everywhere and took a pic of it to come home and identify it. I KNEW it was a mint. I picked some to see if it was minty. Here you are reading my baby herbalist mind 😬 thanks for sharing APRIL
I just stumbled across this video & am so glad I did . I have several pics of myself , mother , grandmother , great grandmother AND great great grandmother , so they have 5 , FIVE , generations in them . Now back to this .... the grandmother's would use many things like this & I just barely remember some of this stuff . I will definitely follow this gal to learn more , much more .
Thank you April!!! Springtime in Oregon and the helpers are blooming!!!
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No.... Thank u for being u! I so appreciate u & what u do for our community. I've learned so much through ur videos. Please never stop what u do. U r so appreciated 👍☺️
I have her everywhere! Thank you for the useful info and the confidence to pursue learning :)
Me too. She’s almost taking over
Oh, am I glad I stumbled on "her"! "She" is funny yet informative and I can't get enough!!! Please don't stop posting .. I really do enjoy your content & earthy self ❤ thanks for taking the time to share!
April, you're amazing :) your humor is hilarious, I love your respect for plants (using "she" humanizes it for us and really helps us connect with nature more), and your energy is just fabulous :) love from northern Michigan
So happy to see you post again 💗
I've watched all your videos and even got a notebook to take notes to refer back to. You've taught so many of us so very much. Thank you, thank you for sharing your knowledge with us!! ❤️
Great thinking. Thats a great way to learn.
omg..you bring me back to when real was acceptable! Thank you for sharing this with us!
Was so glad to wake up to a notification from you (I’m in Australia)……I’ve been working my way through your videos, since finding you here, a little while ago, making tinctures and infused oils, it’s very empowering ………you’re an amazing human, on so many levels, thank you for all the info and guidance!
You are a great teacher! Thank you!
So cool! I took a picture of this lovely, purple "weed" growing in my yard weeks ago. I wanted to investigate, but I got so busy with little seedlings. Today, April to the rescue! Thank you for all the information! 🌱
This is who keeps popping out in my garden. Thank you.
My lawn has had a ton of the purple dead nettle this yr, my yard looked beautiful! The 🐝 🐝 🐝 love her too! Thank u for telling us all about her. I dried a bunch last yr just because, though I wasn't really sure what do do w/ her then, thanks!😃
South Arkansas, was able to make my Purple Dead Nettle March 6...
Thanks for ALL you do!!!!!
Missed seeing your videos, love the info you provide
What a beautiful plant. Thank you for all of the information!!
I've got a hillside full of her. Gonna pick bunches of her now! Thanks for the inspiration & insight.
Laying in bed with something.
Thanks for the visit, you always cheer me up!
Excellent identification, etymology, and full usage distinctions. Very good presentation.
Thank you.
Thank you! This is the first I've seen of you in the tubes. What a wealth of information. I appreciate you!
It's so good to see your videos again after a little while April. I hope you and your family are well 💜
This is growing at our farm. I’m so grateful for you sharing this wonderful information! Thank you
Thanks so much for pointing out this plant to us. I have it in my yard/gardens and am glad to finally know this potential ally!
Excellent information is always. If only I could find a woman like you to share my newfound journey of living off grid who enjoys the nature and what it gives us, my life would be complete. I have truly enjoyed your videos for a long time now.
Thank you for sharing, April. I always wondered what this plant was. Have a wonderful day.
Agreed, me too
These are all over my yard in the spring; and I never knew she was anything but beautiful! 🤩🤷♀️
Thank you! 💞
OMG! My favorite human posted. 😁
Where have you been all my life. I LOVE YOU. Your channel is fabulous, What a wealth of knowledge you are. Thank you so much for sharing this valuable information and helping to keep this ancient tradition alive.
Okay!!!!!! 🙄I was not gonna do it but I’m gonna do it now! You’re such a motivator and a inspirer!!! Thanks April!
Ty as always for sharing your wisdom!
Hiya sweet Soul 😁 so good to hear your chirpy voice, brightening my day as always.
Thanks for the clarification of this plant, saw it yesterday on my walk and wondered about 'her'🤗, love the syncronisity 🌱💐☀️
I just gathered several bunches... Thank you for sharing your knowledge
I only get a little of this in my yard every year and was bummed this year because mine caught some kind of powder fungus so can’t use it for the first time since I have lived here. A new herb popped up in my yard this year that is just gorgeous. It is called Brownes Savory and it is mint-like. Very pretty flowers!
I smiled when you said Oregon. I live in Oregon and I have learn heaps about herbs, salves and all the medicinal tinctures, etc, while living here for the last 12 years. I have pounds of purple dead nettle all over my property. I've harvested about a pound worth and dehydrated it, and I have beautiful jars filled and waiting to be used. ❤ love your videos!!!!! Please keep them coming.
I get so excited when she finally pops up in our woods in North West Indiana. (Later than every where else around here) but I think she smells VERY musty! I'm nervous to use her in tea. I also want to add that I have learned SO much from you and absolutely LOVE your videos and the education! Thanks for doing what you do!
I agree with the musty smell....and ants love this stuff ..
Yeah she's a bit musty but I notice it really depends on the type of soil she's growing in. However the musty flavor IMO doesn't impact the flavor of the tea too much.
Interesting. The dead nettle where I live isn't musty at all. It's right by a creek that floods over the land during heavy rains, though. So maybe the floods are keeping the soil here clean.
Or maybe white dead nettle is less musty. Mine looks like a hybrid of the two.
@@sheisofthewoods can I harvest it and dry it out for a later date? Also is there a way to make tencher without alcohol? And can it be used as a topical? I make a topical *sav with garlic,coconut oil, and lavender oil and I'm wondering if I could add dpn?
@@tmictigrr tincture
SO informative. Best video about this stuff yet!! Thanks girl, keep doing your thing.🤘
Thank you April for being human, I too am human and it's getting harder to find people that are down to earth as the saying use to be. I too have plenty of dead nettle growing in my yard. I will dry some for tea and make a tincture too.
Hummingbirds like her small flowers too.
I have missed your videos! ❤️❤️ I have missed my wonderful plant allies, being outside, learning and gathering. So thankful hibernation is over!! Thinks are just starting to come to life here in Michigan!
I love you so much. The information you put out is so helpful. I am retired now and I want to learn so much about wildcrafting. Thank you so much. From Big Cabin, Oklahoma
Last year I found a big patch of it at the kids' house, got all excited, they looked at me like I'm a crazy person, but kindly let me harvest enough for a quart of tincture...which I put in the tincture cabinet and forgot about😂😂😂
So thank you so much for this video. She is out and going into service, which I'm grateful to have her. Take care
How do you make the tincture?
@@flipwith-faith You get a jar that's the appropriate size for how much nettle you have. Cut your pieces a little bit smaller with scissors and drop them in the jar. When it's full but not jam packed full, you'll need room for your vodka, pour 100 proof vodka over the nettle til you get to the rim of the jar. Put the lid on, label your jar, put it in a cool dark place for 6-8 weeks.
When time's up, strain your tincture and enjoy.
April has tons of videos showing how to do this. I hope you can watch as many as you've got time for 🙂. I learned from her!
You are absolutely AMAZING!
Thank you for sharing!
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Thank you so much for this. I would love to see you teach sometime on henbit. I have a ton of it and can't really find much on how she can be used.
I seen some leaves green with parts a darker purple. I was walking on a side walk & came across w.e. Plant had them leaves. You do good videos & have a beautiful soul. Blessing & good health to everyone. One love. ✌
I love this plant! I've known about it for awhile but recently got a dehydrator and have been trying different things and it makes a REALLY good tea, and I've been taking a gulp or 2 everyday for 3 weeks and been felling great. Also, 2 nights ago I burned the crap outta my finger camping (picked up a hot grill that I sanitized red hot, pulled it out with a stick then like an idiot turned around and grabbed it) it IMMEDIATELY bubbled up, white blister about 2 inches long. So I thought "lets try this" so I grabbed some up, chewed it, packed it on my finger and wrapped in duct tape. In 10 minutes I didn't even notice it. Took it off about 4 hours later and next day 0 pain, I mean ZERO pain and there is no blister to pop. Skin still had that white line but it was smooth with the rest of my flesh (it did turn my finger green and hard to wash off, but that's a small price to pay) as of today it is 98% healed. It's not invasive, its a Godsend! Grab it up! use it!
That's amazing. Burns are so painful glad it worked. God gave us everything we just need to learn more on how to use them. We are so lucky to have people share what they learned from using different plants. I'm just learning and I feel like this puts me even closer to nature. What a wonderful journey : )
It’s always a joy to watch your videos and I always learn something new!! You are awesome!
Also, does it matter what part we use? Only leaves or do stem and root have same properties? Thank you
I use everything but the root that way when we harvest we don't kill her☺️
@@sheisofthewoods how many sprigs would we need for a pot of tea? I'd like to use enough for allergies & regularity.. ♡ thank you for the gift of your knowledge! I'm excited to see more of your videos!
Thank you! I have a new home and now I know what the mysterious mint like plant that is growing EVERYWHERE is!!!! And it's just what I need for my mother! So grateful !!! (I took notes!)
I keep harvesting these beauties out of my yard and dehydrating them in the back window of my otherwise useless car lol. Other than immune modulating, I was planning to use her for muscle relaxation in a salve preparation but now I'm thinking I should enhance her anti inflammatory traits with a different driver or supportive herb. What would you recommend?
California poppy popped in my mind as a good pairing ☺️
@@sheisofthewoods Thank you! I don't have california poppy here in Hungary (as far as I know) but I have plenty of other poppies. I'm binge watching your channel tonight for inspiration. 🥰
I friggin love you lady! I just found your channel today... Where have you been my whole life! You are pure gold! Love your authenticity on top if the invaluable knowledge! 🌸
I learned a little folklore behind these the other day. The faeries kept hiding the centipede shoes, making him late meeting a lady centipede. So she suggests he hides his shoes on the dead nettle plant. The faeries, thinking it would sting them, wouldn't take them anymore. I think the flowers are meant to be the shoes? Adorable stuff. Love your energy!
Thanks April! Always good to hear from you :)
That was wonderful, frank and poetic. What magic you weave.
Got em like wild around my garden perimeter fence. New to me this year. Thanx for timely information and hit the subscribe.
Thank you 🌿🌱Great video . Very informative. It’s been everywhere for me lately , and your video popped up. A message direct from spirit and the fairies . 🌱🌿💫
Thanks so much! She loves my yard...and I thought she was just for no particular reason!
THese popped up in my yard a couple years ago. I love them! They are so pretty! Going to incorporate them into my flower beds.
Love the video. Sweet of you to aid in the comfort of others. Your work is good.
So great to see you again. Thank you for the information. I will be on the look out for it.
The plants just seem to be a part of you and you know them so well! I have several herb books, however, I feel much more comfortable with your knowledge of them. Thank you and I adore your humanness!!!
I'm a mountain tinker in Kentucky. I fix things. I'm so glad to have researched your channel. I watch a lot of know your land videos. You do a good job.
I’ve been always been interested on natural remedies and keep seeing this plant all over my yard and I thought about killing it but I L💜VE Purple so much, I just never got to it. Now that I’ve learned that she’s absolutely important to my health I’ll just leave her alone and use her wisely. Thank you so much for educating me on this plant.
Thanks for popping on the YT, always a joy to see you!
Yay Spring! Let's get our foraging on, Cheers 🌼
Love it...another informative video! I've learned so much from you and am grateful.
How cool! Thank you for sharing all this knowledge.
I don't know why you popped up in my feeds but am so glad you did! Looking forward to more of your videos!
thank you, your open attitude is very welcoming
I love your videos. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and kindness. I feel a sense of calmness in your voice. 🙂
I've been admiring this plant for a long while, had no idea what she was. Thanks!
Thanks for sharing! Good to know! 💕