Introduction
We are on the course of the El Abaus stream, a course with little water but practically permanent, with an environment modified by human. Here we can observe a plant life that is very typical of humid, highly nitrogenous places, with little or much alteration by human activity: nettles. In fact, here at this point it constitutes a nettle patch, a specific place where this species clearly predominates. It is well known that nettles have a bad reputation, as they cause rashes on the skin when in contact with them. The truth, however, is that it is a plant with medicinal and gastronomic properties which, although it is no longer used, deserve to be mentioned. Once boiled, they lose their irritating spikes, so is anyone up for harvesting and eating nettles? They can be eaten in soups, creams, fried with honey, battered…