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Monday, April 9, 2018

Dead Nettle

I have this Dead Nettle all over my property and have lived there for 20+ years and just found out it is both healthy and tasty in many things.  I ate a bite yesterday and it tasted just o.k. fresh picked and raw but this morning I included a single twig of it in our Kiwi Smoothie and it was really good to me and my other taste tester was undecided but didn't hate it.  One of the things I plan to try with it is a Pesto on nice hard roll.  It's in the mint family and you can tell that by looking.  Some of the suggestion for how to use it is to use it as a herb in soups, salad, etc, in Smoothies and Pesto as mentioned and many more.  On another note, beekeepers are saying bees are wild over it and I don't find that to be true with my bees.  No one watches their bees more than I do and I have never seen a bee on the stuff but I think I am in a really good nectar / pollen rich area and it's just not at the top of their list and by the time they are out of their favorites it's already gone.

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