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January’s Healing Nettle Tea

It is said that the “sting of the nettle is but nothing compared to the pains that it heals”.

Immersed in mid-winter’s landscape, hibernation happening everywhere, I rambled happily through the woods this morning: stumps and boulders blanketed with piles of verdant moss, lichened branches overhead, paths underfoot cushioned with fecund layers of frosted grass and [...]