Regarding the wild ginger, it's very slow growing. Exercise restraint. Maybe see if you can encourage them to grow more widely there.
"The sting really isn't that bad it's just kind of like a little temporary itch or annoyance."
Not for me! Nettles burn me like hell fire and the agony lasts a week. Oddly enough I am immune to oil of urushiol that causes poison oak, ivy, and a plant I only know as Indian Celery (a large leaved plant with umbels of white flowers that grows in the region, perhaps cow parsnip?). Nettles have the little hypodermic hairs that inject the poison into the skin, and as far as I can tell that's the only difference that causes my distress.
Thimbleberries are less fecund and productive than blackberries or salmonberries hereabouts, but one of my favorite berries, despite being sort of mealy compared to most other caneberries, because they don't have any thorns. Blackberries are in full production here now, and shortly I'll be scratched and scarred from picking them as if I was a feral kitten wrangler. Thimbleberries and salmonberries are already over, as are huckleberries, leaving blackberries and salal as the last berries available. Salal is a great food that Native Americans harvested avidly. They also don't have thorns.
Thanks!