How To: Pick nettle leaves and prepare nettle tea

If you're still drinking tea from water infused with a dinky little tea bag then you're not really drinking tea at all. In fact, drinking tea from a tea bag you get at Ralph's is equivalent to eating a burger and fries at a fast food joint and thinking it's real food.

We advocate brewing tea yourself - with real tea leaves - for optimum health benefits. Check out this video to learn how to pick nettle leaves safely without getting stung as well as how to brew nettle tea.

This is called an infusion or simply making tea from the wild. Andrew shows you what herb to add for that extra kick.