Darina Allen: How to use nettles in your cooking, including a recipe for nettle beer

Wild, free, and bursting with vitamins, this week’s column celebrates the humble nettle

Nettles cannot be eaten raw, but they lose their sting when cooked, dried, or blended

Where you see weeds, I see dinner!

Spring is truly in the air, most of the trees are bursting into leaf and the crows are making a terrific racket in the trees behind the house. They have been stealing the sheep’s wool I have been using to mulch around the currant and berry bushes to line their nests, so the chicks are super cozy.