Carla Emory has a couple of paragraphs about home-grown rabbit food: "The old-timers who wintered their rabbits on food they'd grown themselves fed them such things as stock beets and cabbage in winter as well as their grain and hay. So can you. Pea and bean vines can be cured like hay and make an excellent hay substitute or supplement. "In season, rabbits like anything green, but you must be careful not to feed them plants that are outrightly poisonous, such as chokecherry or rhubarb leaves, or potato peels with sprouts or the ones that have been in the sun long enough to get even the slightest touch of green. Other greens are only mildly poisonous in the uncooked state such as pigweed, amaranth greens, spinach, comfrey, and Swiss chard--but for a creature with a small body weight like a rabbit, especially a young rabbit, these can be a problem too. Much of the reason that people develop a fear of growing their own rabbit food, or have had bad experiences with home feeding of rabbits is that they don't understand how very many greens, wild or domestic, are not fully safe to feed rabbits, and which are. Before feeding a leafy green or herb for the first time, check the list under "Edible for Rabbits" below, to see if there is a warning of any sort about it. Stick to feeding them human-type salad greens unless you know for sure a wild one is safe. If cooking is advised for a green or category of greens (the amaranth family), don't feed it to rabbits who, of course, would be eating it raw. If it's in the least toxic, don't feed it to them. If it might have chemical residues in it, don't feed it to them. "I plant extra rows of lettuce for them. And when I weed in the summer, I take along a bucket to put the pulled edible weeds for rabbits. Feeding this way you never have to buy a rabbit pellet and they do fine. When fed home-grown stuff, they'll grow a little slower (and more normally) to that 2-lb. butchering size. But it's far cheaper, and I have organic meat because conception on, they've been nourished with home-grown foods and greens, or hay and grain from a source I know is chemical-free. "Vegetables/Greens/Fruits: A combination of grains is better than a single one. A combination of veggies and greens plus grain and hay is better yet. Let your rabbits do some of the picking and choosing. They'll choose what they need. They'lll love much of what you offer of this sort, and it's a nice way to tame them--hand-feeding them some veggie treats. For pregnant and nursing does, variety is especially important. Offer the vegetables or leafy greens in season (the longer the season, the better). Garden and kitchen vegetables and fruit scraps can be included also, as long as they're not on the unhealthy list. If you're just starting to supplement a rabbit's diet in this way, go slowly at first until your bunny gets used to it. Limit what you feed so that surplus doesn't rot in the cage. Rotting surpluses are good for chickens or pigs, but not rabbits. In fact, rabbits can get sick from eating partly spoiled greens. Garden vegetables for rabbits, as for people, are mostly water. Greens are water plus lots of minerals and vitamins. Root vegetables are higher in energy supplied, lower in the mineral-and-vitamin department."

Nettles is the healthiest plant,which has given us by Mother Nature.If people knew about the use of this herb that eliminates the symptoms of various diseases,we would use less medication... For what uses nettles? Nettle is one of the most medicinal plants, and is commonly used leaf and nettle root. Used to purify the blood and increase the excretion of fluids from the body, and has been applied to all diseases caused by an accumulation of toxins in the body (eczema, headaches, rheumatism, gout, arthritis). Nettle has a beneficial effect in a variety of diseases that occur as a result of excessive burden on the liver, gall bladder, spleen and kidney toxic chemicals. The liver and kidneys are responsible for processing and excretion of harmful substances from the body. If these organs are overloaded or fail to excrete harmful substances out, created fertile ground for the development of diseases that occur as a result of the burden of toxins (rheumatism, gout, migraine, eczema). Nettle prevents the sand in the kidneys and bladder Nettle is rich in iron, and is used in Iron Deficiency Anaemia. In folk medicine nettle is considered to be "strong blood", and also be used for pallor, anemia, anemia, lack of energy, fatigue fast. Nettle contains many vitamins and minerals, and some herbalists believe multimineralni and natural multivitamin complex. Nettle contains vitamin C, carotenoids (provitamin A), vitamin C, B2, B5, iron, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, silicic acid (formic acid and histamine, which urns). Nettle root is an ingredient of a mixture of tea for curing prostate enlargement and urinary tract. Nettle contains components that regulate the levels of free androgens (male sex hormones), consequently increasing the metabolism of a swollen prostate tissue, fluid eliminates the deadlock and open the narrowed urinary channels. Nettle is also used for catarrh of the stomach, respiratory diseases, gastric ulcers, duodenal ulcer, pulmonary diseases.

@subtropix Its not stupidity of the animal; things just happen sometimes. I, very ironically, have personal and numerous experiences with this. I am a certified veterinary tech and have practiced for years. I am currently attending college to get my DVM. You would be surprised what animals eat. I just took care of a cat last Tuesday for eating lilies, a notoriously poisonous plant (the whole species, actually) for cats. Last year, my dog ate a good portion of an onion, which causes basophilic stippling (poison of the white blood cells). A dog came in two months ago who not only ate a whole bag of grapes, which causes renal failure, but half of his neighbor's azalea bush, which is a majorly toxic plant, all within half an hour. Yesterday, a dog came in with three Littlest Petshop figurines in his intestines. The moral of all of this is that crap happens. Sometimes, animals eat things. Why? Heck if anyone knows. But they do. If your animals did not have any inclination to eat plants (or plastic animals), that is absolutely wonderful; but, people should not just assume their animal would not try it, because there are always going to be exceptions. I do not wish to tempt fate, especially when my gliders have shown a strong inclination to venture on trees and scratch and bite at them, as they would have done in the wild in order to take care of their nails and teeth. Ficus, particularly noted the benjamina, has sap/juice that can cause minor to major (relatively; my animals are very small) skin rashes, irritation, and if wounded by it, can cause large, painful blisters for them. Can you understand why I would not risk it in good conscious? Thank you though for the opinion on the camellias. I've decided not to grow them as inside plants. @Dave Subspecies of species can change dependent on where they are geographically and the features that affect their day to day lives (predation, food supply, competition, etc.). This is true for all animals and plants. So it isn't far-fetched to believe that a different subspecies can hold different traits, such as poison in order for protection. For example, the urtica diocia is known commonly as the stinging nettle, has 6 subspecies, where only 5 of them actually sting you (with hypodermic hairs that inject histamines and other chemicals). The 1 leftover can not harm you. Another example would be butterflies; some are poisonous due to the predators that live in that specific area. And I was just making a comment on my zone. That is all. I do realize that inside growing isn't really affected by your zone. Like I stated above, ficus, particularly noted the benjamina, has sap/juice that can cause minor to major (relatively, my animals are very small) skin rashes, irritation, and if wounded by it, can cause large, painful blisters for gliders. And thank you for the suggestion of stating more of what I was looking for. I should've done that, and I will certainly remember that for next time. I've decided to go with some air purifying plants instead of a tree, due to construction in the building and what definitely smells like formaldehyde lingering everywhere. Thank you all for your suggestions and time.

We pick only nettles in spring, a must for delicious nettle soup. When we first moved to this garden 22 years ago there was an edible mushroom under an apple tree, Lactarius deliciosus var. deterrimus, but it took me too long to realize what it was and it went bad before I'd picked it. It has never come back. There are other mushrooms and toadstools here but I don't trust them although I have a good fungi book. I am familiar with only five edible varieties none of which grow in the garden now. This promises to be a very good bilberry year and perhaps we can freeze a year's supply of them from the woodland or else we'll go out in the forest and pick them. We grow lots of garden berries but wild bilberries are the best.