Foraging for Nettles in Central Park
In this “episode”…we are back in Central Park searching for wild edibles. Today is all about nettles. A very important plant to learn about, due to its HIGH nutrient content and availability. As always, I take no responsibility if you get sick…this is for entertainment only. I cant stand out litigious society…:(
Youre right…they are not. The book presented them as “wood nettles”, and they are edible. I ate loads of them without ill effect, but yeah, they are not classic nettles.
Thanks for the heads up man…totally appreciate it.
Those are not nettles…Be careful Anthony!!!!!!
You’re welcome, Izarob.
Wageninger
My mother picks wild plants whenever i’m out fishing with my pa and she always knows what plants to pick. She pickles the plants, or she usually just boils them.
Anthony, it´s not a nettle but an “Aster divaricatus”… (Thanks Wageninger)
Hello Anthony.
What kind of nettles are those? :-O You would never touch european nettles like that! All have microscopic prickles everywhere with a kind of itching substance that really burns. Only after boiling it disappears…
extremely!!!
This made me inspired to forage nettles and dandelion in my town =)
Anthony, Would you tell us what book you use for referance. I promise I won’t turn into a “War Mongering” wild foodist. I vow to use it only for good.
good stuff!
Hey Anthony,
What book? I’d love to start finding wild food here in Dallas. I think a friend has some of those in his back yard next to his mint and rosemary.Thanks and thank you so much for doing this. Joe
You’d think the stinging hairs would make nettle identification easy. Nevertheless, I once ran into some people in the woods who insisted that clearweed (Pilea pumila), a similar-looking, nonpoisonous plant with a translucent stem and no stinging hairs, was stinging nettles. They had been eating this unpalatably inedible nontoxic plant, which I had always rejected as unpalatable, all summer.
Could this be what you got? Stinging nettles should have stingers
Yes…everything matched up in my book…stems, leaves, area…I ate probably two pounds in the last 2 days and I havent gotten sick.
Crossing my fingers
-Anthony
Are you sure those are nettles?
thanks!!!!