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Make a stinging nettle infused oil - PEP BB medicine.sand.oil.nettle

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This is a badge bit (BB) that is part of the PEP curriculum.  Completing this BB is part of getting the sand badge in Natural Medicine.

For this BB, you will create an oil infusion of stinging nettle using plant material you harvested. Oil infusion is a method of extracting desired compounds from plant material by steeping the material in warm or cool oil.

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How to Make an Infused Oil


Minimum requirements:
  - Make an infused oil using plant material you harvested
  - Use stinging nettle

To document completion of the BB, provide proof of the following as pictures or a video (< 2 minutes):
 - Harvested plant material (either being harvested or just harvested)
 - Making the infusion (plant material in oil) with a description of the oil and any other ingredients you used
 - Finished (strained) infused oil in its labeled jar
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First BB-official oil! The Stinging Nettle cycle continues with putting parts of my lovely batch of urtica dioica in oil.
I have chosen rapeseed as it is a great flavourless carrier oil, with the added bonus that it can be grown on our fields. This one is from the store, though, as we haven`t gotten to oil manifacture yet (it`s planned for, like so many other things!)
The result smells and tastes like stinging nettle.

Lessons of the mix: beeswax wraps do not like oil. Oil soaking through the wax wrap stickied up my windowsill, and the wrap is now dead. Thankfully we have much wax and more cotton rags!

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Dried nettles, rapeseed from the store, infusing bottle
Dried nettles, rapeseed from the store, infusing bottle
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Hooded pre infusion
Hooded pre infusion
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Pre bottling
Pre bottling
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Bottled oil!
Bottled oil!
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Added picture of freshly cut nettles!
Added picture of freshly cut nettles!

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Note: Please add the required photo of: Harvested plant material (either being harvested or just harvested)

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Vegard Elseson
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This addendum to atone for my edging: The nettles, freshly cut!

Edit: Also my Editing is going wild. Can we delete this picture and just keep to the one I added to the original post? Don`t want to clutter up the place! :O
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Some of the nettles caught trying to flee in my wheel barrow.
Some of the nettles caught trying to flee in my wheel barrow.

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Made a lovely nettle infusion with some of the last nettles of the season- this was started at the same time as my tea bb, hence some of the same pictures.

I chose to use canola as my oil, as I ran out of sunflower oil, it is exclusively fresh nettle and canola oil
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Wild Plants
Wild Plants
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Collected Leaves
Collected Leaves
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Adding oil
Adding oil
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Labeled and left to settle for ~a month
Labeled and left to settle for ~a month
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Straining out leaves a little under a month later
Straining out leaves a little under a month later
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Oil, back in its jar sans leaves
Oil, back in its jar sans leaves

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Dried leaf of urtica dioica in sunflower oil!
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Harvesting the nettles.
Harvesting the nettles.
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Dried nettles.
Dried nettles.
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Nettles in oil.
Nettles in oil.
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Labelled nettle infusion with oil ingredient.
Labelled nettle infusion with oil ingredient.

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