Nettle - The Little Wild Library

 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...

• 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: Nettlewill reveal the secrets of this magical weed and inspire those new to foraging to experiment and explore the beautiful plants around them.

Total Pages: 128
Dimensions: 106mm x 140mm
Format : Hardback

About the author

Sarah Atkinson is a medical herbalist with over 30 years experience. In 2006 she founded The Medicine Garden in the South Lake District, UK, as a place to offer the holistic medicines she felt were becoming more crucial to healing “dis-ease”– as she puts it – in the modern world.

Her particular style of healing has developed from her early career, where she was focused on the clinical sides of herbalism, to now embody a more holistic approach that explores and centres the mind/body connection.