quoted in full, and I put in the title the link to the blog of Farming in which it was published, an article published on Marinella Correggia Manifesto of September 14 about the famous macerated nettle.
I had heard more times, most recently during a discussion with a member of Farming Fair of Guastalla.
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I had heard more times, most recently during a discussion with a member of Farming Fair of Guastalla.
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Used for centuries in crop protection, the macerate was the sole ingredient of nettle water over the leaves of this wild plant called weed very unfairly. Stinging nettle is in fact a very democratic food rich in minerals, and at the same time strengthens and nourishes the soil, in Africa the "Network for agroecology" says the farmers that care for these purposes. She also uses herbal cosmetics and if they can get paper and tissues and, in fact, natural pesticides. So much so that the movement of men and boys home offers the "orticherie 'economy as a project of another: in places rich in raw material, create workshops for obtain food, textiles, paper and drugs; in urban areas not only for sale but for self-production courses, seminars etc. to care. And maybe promote the nettle powder in the fight against child malnutrition, as it is conducive to the production of milk.
Potential negligible. But in France it's worse. Since 2002, following action by the Department of Prevention of Fraud of Maine-et-Loire, the sale of recovered paper has become an outlaw. The reason? Certainly not an alleged damage, given that this ancient remedy has never recorded, but because the product is not approved. As explained at the site www.univers-nature.com the farmer and writer Bernard Bertrand, spokeswoman for Friends of the Ortie dedicated to the recovery of traditional knowledge in agriculture, the approval is a lengthy and costly bureaucratic procedure, which requires years of experiments and tens of thousands of euro. Which is more than fair for the myriad of synthetic chemicals that affect the planet and agriculture, but for those not enough, since their toxic effects are revealed even after decades. For natural products, used for some time and have never endangered the public health, the approval is nonsense, says Bertrand, besides being difficult to obtain, since the Commission is made up of producers of plant protection synthesis. Bertrand and others asked a kind of exemption to the law, a special certificate for natural products and known, but nothing.
recently the situation has worsened, becoming even surreal. On July 1, came into force a decree that prevents even to disclose recipes for the preparation of natural products if not approved. Is prohibited to transmit a knowledge that belongs to the collective memory and may even be lost at this rate. The mere fact of communicating in public, for example, during a course, or in a text - as the book of Purin Ortie written by Bertrand et compagnie - or even an article, the age-old recipe of marinated, or even the effectiveness of herbicide hot water, in theory involves a heavy fine and two years in prison. Maybe you do not come to that, but the disincentive there. Eric Petiot at the end of August, another author of the book, landscape gardener and organizer of workshops on organic farming, was visited by two inspectors, a national service to combat fraud and one of the regional service the protection of plants, which stated that the remedies have not been approved is also prohibited information, and should no longer bring the trainees to collect wild herbs. It remains the right to prepare the macerate and other natural plant for its direct use, but woe to go and say that it works, even if it was in a meeting country. Clearly, for the Friends of the French multinational that pesticides exert pressure on Ministries of Agriculture and Interior.
to disobey the dictates French, here is the recipe for the famous marinated, useful to anyone with a few plants to be protected. In a bowl, put to macerate in 10 liters of rain water, preferably 1.5 kg of nettle leaves (the young sprouts, not fitted to suit) shredded, or smaller quantities, proportionately. After 15 days filter. Depending on the desired use: dilute 2 macerated with 10 liters of water and spray it on the floor against the cryptogams, but also as an activator of growth having regard to the wealth of minerals, or dilute one liter of macerated with 10 of water and sprayed on the leaves of plants as an insecticide especially head lice, without dilution is a good compost activator. Store in airtight container away from light and at 18-20 degrees, it is effective for weeks.
