Tag: herbalist

Tag: herbalist

Spring Treat – Nettle Soup

Stinging Nettle – Urtica dioica.  The latin name comes from “uro” meaning to burn.  Tells you all a person needs to know about encountering nettle.  When I harvest nettle I usually take hold of a leaf in one hand and then use scissors in the other hand to clip near the top of the plant.

swooning in a botanical garden

A gal recently asked me if I garden.  Garden?  If you count me letting our 2.5 acres pretty much do what it wants then yes I garden.  Otherwise no, not so much.  I mostly like my plants wild – untouched and untamed.  Despite this affection for the weedy I am an ardent lover of botanical