Aurin (ki, ki, kis)

today, I be do EXPERIMENT from garden:

I be pluck some stinging nettle tops and small leaf, and make food from! (I also dig out as much of root as can, because is part of garden we want be able walk barefoot. is soooooo many root! very tenacious plant)

I not put picture of food, because look ugly. but taste good! 😋🍃

I wash nettle, then boil a bit. now no longer sting!
then I cut into small bits. if have blender, I be blend, but not have. I add salt, pepper, garlic powder, lots oil and little lemon juice (the cheap one from plastic lemon). I also add crushed sunflower seeds. I use mortar and pestle, because not have no blender. but it ok, it more work, but I be like have some small crunchy bit still. like crunchy peanut butter, but sunflower!

is be like pesto, only be differ. I be eat together of pasta.

is very nommy! Nam! 😋

#gardentooting #nettles #StinginNettles #perennials #wildFood #WildFoods #WeedEating

May 15, 2025 at 12:46pmWeb
Show thread Aurin (ki, ki, kis)May 15, 2025

I not be use of gloves when pluck and dig nettles. I be mostly full of care, then not be stung. but some of time I be stung too. is ok. it not bother too much.

I be love much of work bare hands!!! I be start because not have money for tool, but I be like! I be like human hands, good good tools! I be of luck, hand of mine work fine. I be feel things, is good for me and good for plants and soil.

with bare hands, not be do unnecessary work. not be do more of destruct. example: other day I prune dead branch off berry bush. with shears it be easy for cut living branch. but hand? no, not easy! even small branch hard for break or rip by hand. so, only break dry dead branch, that easy. so, only do minimal damage.

I not say: never use tool! I want some tool. some of time tool better, tool even more gentle (like cut living branch rather than rip and tear, good tool make clean cut be better!)

but. I not have tool now, only use hands and sometime stick. so, I notice: what is good about? is lots good about! :)

is therapy too. connect body, self, soil, plant, earth. good, good.

#gardentooting #HandsInTheDirt

Show thread Aurin (ki, ki, kis)May 16, 2025
my hand be ow today 😅
but worth it. skin will grow tough.