From health gurus to food nerds and bakers, nuts and seeds are used in almost everything in the trade, we see nut milk, nut butter, nut flour, nut cakes and a variety of other products. Likewise, seed biscuits, seed cakes...they have become a bulk product. Something we take for granted and use en masse. We learn that they are nutritious and have a variety of health-giving properties. But they are more than just "useful": let's stop for a moment and reflect on what a nut or a seed really is? Take seeds: they are small miracles, each and every one! Every little sesame seed and flax seed and sunflower seed and poppy seed carries within it a whole life. The goal of every seed plant, the meaning of its entire existence, is to reproduce. Forming a seed is the sum of that entire plant. Quite magnificent if you think about it. A seed consists of an embryo (germ), nutritional tissue (alveolus) and seed coat. The nutrient tissue contains fats, proteins, starch or cellulose depending on the plant. The plant for a giant tree, a bush or a flower is in a single small seed. Pretty potent stuff! That's why I love collecting seeds in the wild. It feels as if their inherent power helps me get through the winter without giving in. I collect seeds from, for example, nettles, pigweed, arrowroot, plantain and ragweed. Once I've dried and cleaned them, I use them in seed biscuits, spice mixtures and in porridge. To help you get started, I'll tell you how to go about using nettles, a plant that most people are familiar with:
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Care of Gerd
06.09.2018
The seed of your wild life
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