Wild Edible Recipes: Enjoy a Sexy 3-Course Raw Food Meal with Stinging Nettles

Wild Edible Recipes:
Enjoy a Sexy 3-Course Meal with Stinging Nettles

by Heather Gardner

There’s nothing like a wander in the wild and a forage in the forest with a loved one, to get your appetite ready for a 3 course meal á deux. Nettles are free, grow abundantly in many regions and are the prince of the wild edible plants.

Nourishing nettles are nutritional powerhouses, beautifying, detoxing and building our bodies. A nifty nibble that keeps us fit and frisky and limber of limb. So take a hike with a loved one to gather a big bag of stinging nettles, when you get back you can whip up a raw feast in no time to nourish and delight.

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How to Use Nettle Seeds to Make Your Own Wild, Green Superfoods

How to Use Nettle Seeds to Make Your Own Wild, Green Superfoods

by Heather Gardner

Most of us loose our £pounds and our power by relying on things that come in a box or a tin from the store. We health-seeking heroines know that plenty of water, fruits and vegetables are good for us, and that supplementing our diets with superfoods is the buzz of the moment. But what if in these challenging times we can’t afford the latest designer health product and recommendations from ‘experts’? Luckily we have an expert who truly knows what is best for us, she’s been around longer than any others and she isn’t trying to sell us something, she is Mother Nature.

In herbalist Susan Weed’s opinion, eating nettles daily is more strengthening than wheatgrass, Spirulina and other green supplements that we buy in pills and packets and not naturally found in our local outdoor herbal larder. Luckily for us nettles grow abundantly in most areas of human habitation and are free for the foraging.

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Natural Health & Beauty: 6 Stinging Nettle Recipes for Healthy Hair, Skin & Nails

Natural Health & Beauty Recipes: How to Use Stinging Nettles for Healthy Hair, Skin & Nails

- by Heather Gardner

With most things in life, pleasure is partnered with pain and seldom do we have one without the other. Matters of love, life and wild edibles are no different when it comes to pain, and it is no surprise that one of the most nutritious, wild, superfood heroes of the wild world comes fully loaded and ready to sting us into retreat. Luckily, wild wellness warriors will not be defeated in their quest for nutritious morsels to nibble on.

So with scissors, gloves and dock leaves to the ready we brave the briar patch in search of the pleasures of the stinging nettle.

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Wild Edible Recipes: 8 Irresistible Wild Garlic Recipes for Your Wild Edible Adventures

Raw Recipes with Wild Garlic

- by Heather Gardner

Wild garlic grows prolifically at this time of year. Mingling amongst the bluebells to form fragrant carpets of delight on the ferny forest floors. They are best to pick and use just before their beautiful white star like flowers explode into bloom, around about now April – May. So you’re just in time to get the kids ready, put your wellies on and get out to the woods to pick a few baskets of this green gold. Check out my previous blog to see all the wonderful health giving properties of this delicious wonder weed.

Heather is one of our participants on the Wild Edible program with Sergie! Below are eight fabulous recipes you can use with your wild garlic harvest this year!

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Supplementing with Spirulina, Chlorella, Vitamin B12, and Healthy Oils

Supplementing with Spirulina, Chlorella, Vitamin B12, and Healthy Oils

- by a guest blogger

On any given day, if you were to look next to my bed into my bookshelf/night stand you’d find at least 3 or 4 books on health, nutrition, meditation, vegetarianism, yoga, or how the body functions, all of which I’m currently in the midst of reading. I read any and everything I can get my hands on! Health and the human body fascinate me.

There are so many of us that are vitamin and mineral deficient due to the lack of eating fresh living vibrant produce. (Fruits and veggies, People! They don’t grow out of the earth in abundance for nothing!)

While I was at work a recent Friday morning it crossed my mind that maybe it would be beneficial to share with everyone what I’ve learned about vitamin supplementation. I wanted to share with you how easy it can be and why its important to add this habit to your daily life.

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