The Little Wild Library

Nettle: Simple Things to Do with the Plants Around You

Clare Gogerty (Author)

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Miscellaneous
01 May 2025

Traditional medicine & herbal remedies; Trees, wildflowers & plants

Series: Little Wild Library

In The Little Wild Library: Nettle, discover how to make the most of this useful plant, with recipes and makes to try throughout the year. Once you've found your favourite nettle patch, come back as the seasons change and find new things to do with your foraged treasure from edible treats to useful tinctures.

In The Little Wild Library: Nettle, discover how to make the most of this tenacious plant, with recipes and makes to try throughout the year. Bursting to life in spring and popping up everywhere, the nettle is one of the most common plants, though sometimes cruelly called weeds!

Once you've found your favourite patch of nettles, come back as the seasons change and find new things to do with your foraged treasure...

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Learn how to identify and how to safely forage for nettles. .

Discover easy recipes that make use of fresh and sweet nettle tips that appear in spring. .

All the recipes and makes are beginner friendly!

Learn how to identify the nettle amidst its hedgerow friends from the comprehensive botanical information included, and take this pocket-sized book out on foraging adventures to help spot the urtica dioica waving merrily on a spring breeze, or brightening a dull fall afternoon. Through the book, learn all about the nettle including how it got its name, and discover some of the myths, legends, and folklore attached to this fantastic plant.

The perfect beginner's guide to foraging, in a handy pocket-sized format, The Little Wild Library: Nettle will reveal the secrets of this magical weed and inspire those new to foraging to experiment and explore the beautiful plants around them.

AUTHOR: Clare lives on a smallholding in deepest Herefordshire which she is opening as a spiritual retreat in 2023. The sound of shamanic drumming often comes from her orchard, and herbal remedies are frequently cooked up in the kitchen. She has been interested in magic, druidry and folklore since a child, encouraged by her father, an enthusiastic dowser and leyline hunter. A former magazine editor, she is now a freelance journalist and author, writing about spirituality, travel, homes and gardens.

By: Clare Gogerty (Author)
Imprint: Miscellaneous
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 140mm, Width: 106mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 200g
ISBN: 9781446315408
ISBN 10: 1446315401
Series: Little Wild Library
Pages: 112
Publication Date: 01 May 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Clare lives on a smallholding in deepest Herefordshire which she is opening as a spiritual retreat in 2023. The sound of shamanic drumming often comes from her orchard, and herbal remedies are frequently cooked up in the kitchen. She has been interested in magic, druidry and folklore since a child, encouraged by her father, an enthusiastic dowser and leyline hunter. A former magazine editor, she is now a freelance journalist and author, writing about spirituality, travel, homes and gardens.