I cook myself a healthy meal & included freshly harvested nettles
Channel: Zwartbles Ireland Suzanna Crampton
Date: 11/09/2022

Nettles are one of the most nutritionally dense greens one can eat. They grow where soil has the highest density of nutrition. It’s not often you can harvest them this late in the season. The spring growth of nettles is the best but I shall have to put up with the lesser just because it’s autumn not spring. 
Ingredients: 
Nettles
Copious amounts of full farm butter
Peas
Eggs
Minced meat
Salt, pepper 
Caraway seeds 



Zwartbles Ireland is a small company run from a farm in County Kilkenny in Ireland. We are a regenerative farm which means restoring soils health and regenerating its natural carbon and nutrient cycle with biodiversity of pasture sward with grasses, legumes, forbs and herbs. This also means we farm with nature. Healthy soils are important for healthy environment. So we encourage all life from the microbial to dung beetles, ants, pollinators to flora biodiversity, birds, hare, hedgehogs, rabbits, fox, badger as well as our livestock. This mean we farm in a style of mob grazing and giving fields long rest times between grazings. We have seen a huge increase and return of wildlife including woodcock and snipe in winter months foraging for dung beetle larvae, red squirrel, wood peckers and pine martens. We also have the rare natter bat and previously thought extinct Tawny Mining bees.
We sell, Zwartbles sheep, Zwartbles blankets and yarn made from the sheep, and calendars featuring Inca the World's Smallest Sheepdog and her coworkers. We also sell alpaca yarn spun for our own alpaca. Our yarns are 100 percent natural, grown by our sheep which grazing our small green Irish fields. This wool is naturally sequestered carbon which you can then knit into warm environmental friendly clothing.