Jun 11th
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Prospect Park (Teens/Adults)
"Wildman" Steve Brill @ Prospect Park - Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY 11238
A great abundance of edible and medicinal wild plants and mushrooms makes this park a great place for edible and medicinal plants and mushrooms in late summer. Burdock, an expensive detoxifying herb sold in health food stores, abounds in cultivated areas throughout the park. You can also use this invasive species as a superb root vegetable, or even marinate and bake it, to make "Wildman's" Vegan Beef Jerky! The root of sassafras, which makes tea...
Sunday Jun 11th, 11:45am–3:45pm Eastern Time
Central Park (Teens/Adults)
"Wildman" Steve Brill @ 5th Ave & E 106th St, New York, NY 10029
Central Park provides a great window into the world of wild foods of mid-spring. It's the peak of the season for wild salad greens, and we'll be finding great quantities of renewable ingredients: Spicy mustard greens, such as garlicky garlic mustard, hot hedge mustard, and even hotter poor man's pepper, will abound on lawns or under trees anywhere, and lemony sheep sorrel thrives in sunny places. Offset their flavors in a salad with milder-tasting...
Sunday Jun 4th, 11:45am–3:45pm Eastern Time
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Central Park (Kids 12 & Under)
"Wildman" Steve Brill @ 5th Ave & E 106th St, New York, NY 10029
Central Park provides a great window into the world of wild foods in early spring. Making a meal with these plants is simple at this time of the year. For an appetizer, try simmering field garlic bulbs in diluted vinegar with Italian seasonings, to make an outstanding pickle. It's the peak of the season for wild salad greens, and we'll be finding large quantities of leafy, green ingredients. Spicy mustard greens, such as garlicky garlic mustard,...
Sunday Jun 4th, 11:45am–3:45pm Eastern Time
Forest Park (Teens/Adults)
"Wildman" Steve Brill @ Union Turnpike & Park Ln, New York, NY 11415
This is one of the best places in the world for fall foraging, with a wide selection of wild herbs, greens, roots, nuts, and mushrooms, even in late fall. Habitats include miles of mature forest, as well as the trail edges and the disturbed, overgrown, and cultivated habitats, all providing homes for many diverse, renewable species. Before we even enter the park, we'll stop at a row of ginkgo trees across the street from the meeting spot. A relic...
Saturday Jun 10th, 11:45am–3:45pm Eastern Time
Inwood Hill Park (Teens/Adults)
"Wildman" Steve Brill @ Anne Loftus Playground, New York, NY 10040
Inwood Hill Park is one of the best places for foragers in late winter. The city's hilliest park, with a large, mature forest, meadows, thickets, and cultivated areas, it's loaded with wild plants. Now is the time for roots. Burdock, an expensive detoxifying herb sold in health food stores, as well as an invasive foreign species, abounds in human-disturbed areas throughout the park. The cooked root tastes like a combination of potatoes and artichokes. ...
Saturday Jun 17th, 11:45am–3:45pm Eastern Time
Saxon Woods (Teens/Adults)
"Wildman" Steve Brill @ Saxon Woods Park Parking lot, White Plains, NY 10605
The sunny borders between woodlands and the parking lot provide prime habitat for various wild herbs and greens. We'll look for sheep sorrel and wood sorrel, with their wonderful lemony flavors, plus goutweed, which tastes like parsley, carrots, and celery. Poor man's pepper, a common, delicious wild mustard, also appears in great abundance in sunny habitats, and it's even more common invasive relative, garlic mustard, is taking over the forest....
Saturday Jun 17th, 10am–12:30pm Eastern Time
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Forest Park (Kids 12 & Under)
"Wildman" Steve Brill @ 8040 Park Lane, Queens, NY 11415
Forest Park is one of the best places for foragers in mid-spring. Get lost in this vast park, and you'll have plenty to eat (that is, if you can distinguish the gourmet plants from the deadly ones.) It boasts a large, mature, secondary growth forest, trail edges, thickets, and cultivated areas—all overflowing with wild plants, and Violet Brill, America's go-to gal for foraging, will teach you how to identify, harvest ecologically, and use dozens...
Saturday Jun 10th, 11:45am–3:45pm Eastern Time
Prospect Park (Kids 12 & Under)
"Wildman" Steve Brill @ Prospect Park - Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY 11238
Prospect Park provides such a superabundance of wild foods in mid-spring, it's hard to cover them all in just four hours. We begin with spicy hedge mustard, corn-flavored chickweed, and spinach-flavored lamb's quarters, all growing near the park's Grand Army Plaza entrance. Then we move along to goutweed, taking over along the path near the Vale of Cashmere (and throughout other sections of the park). This invasive European herb tastes like parsley,...
Sunday Jun 11th, 11:45am–3:45pm Eastern Time
Sunken Meadow State Park (Kids 12 & Under)
"Wildman" Steve Brill @ Sunken Meadow Park - Kings Park, LI, Kings Park, NY 11754
This is an outstanding park for foragers in mid-summer. We'll explore cultivated areas, the seashore, and woods, all in one day. The most spectacular find in this park grows within sight of the ocean. Dozens of blackberry bushes in nearby thickets provide thousands of exquisitely delicious berries. Smaller than their commercial counterparts, and more seedy, they taste so much better, they'll make you forget all about your iPhone! This won't...
Sunday Jun 11th, 1–4pm Eastern Time
Saxon Woods (Kids 12 & Under)
"Wildman" Steve Brill @ Saxon Woods Park Parking lot, White Plains, NY 10605
The sunny borders between woodlands and the parking lot provide prime habitat for various wild herbs and greens. We'll look for sheep sorrel and wood sorrel, with their wonderful lemony flavors, plus goutweed, which tastes like parsley, carrots, and celery. Poor man's pepper, a common, delicious wild mustard, also appears in great abundance in sunny habitats, and it's even more common invasive relative, garlic mustard, is taking over the forest....
Saturday Jun 17th, 10am–12:30pm Eastern Time
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Inwood Hill Park (Kids 12 & Under)
"Wildman" Steve Brill @ Anne Loftus Playground, New York, NY 10040
Inwood Hill Park is one of the best places for foraging in late fall. The city's hilliest park, with a large, mature forest, meadows, thickets, and cultivated areas, it's loaded with wild plants, even in late fall. This is the time to search for roots. Here are some we'll be finding: Burdock, an invasive, Eurasian, expensive, detoxifying herb sold in health food stores, abounds in human-disturbed areas throughout the park. Scrub the root, slice...
Saturday Jun 17th, 11:45am–3:45pm Eastern Time
Belmont Lake State Park (Teens/Adults)
"Wildman" Steve Brill @ 625 Belmont Ave, North Babylon, NY 11704
With woodland trails, a lake, and recreation areas, this is a great place for wild foods in late fall. Some fruits are good to eat in late fall. Autumn Olive Berries At this time of the year, we’ll be enjoying the sweet-tart autumn olive berries, which grow in unlimited quantity near the entrance to the parking lot. These red, spherical, spotted berries are as easy to recognize as they are tasty. Sassafras Leaves Cold-weather...
Sunday Jul 9th, 11:30am–2:30pm Eastern Time
Belmont Lake State Park (Kids 12 & Under)
"Wildman" Steve Brill @ 625 Belmont Ave, North Babylon, NY 11704
With a lakeside, cultivated areas, picnic grounds, and woods, Belmont Lake State Park is a great place for wild foods in late winter, and everything the group will be finding is renewable. The plants repeatedly get trimmed down by lawn mowers, but they’re adapted to defend themselves by regeneration. Many of the foreign plants here are also invasive. Wild greens will be thriving in sunny areas and along trail edges. We'll be looking for chickweed,...
Sunday Jul 9th, 11:30am–2:30pm Eastern Time
Croton Aqueduct (Kids 12 & Under)
"Wildman" Steve Brill @ Cedar St, Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522
This well-known greenway, with open, sunny habitats, wooded sections, thickets, and edges, is ideal for finding the best edible wild plants of early spring, and this tour, led by Violet Brill, will give you the best opportunity to learn about, collect, and enjoy some of our best common, tasty, renewable species. In open, sunny areas, we'll be finding common- and long-leaf plantain, related garden "weeds" that are loaded with dozens of biologically...
Sunday Aug 20th, 12–3pm Eastern Time
Croton Aqueduct (Teens/Adults)
"Wildman" Steve Brill @ Cedar St, Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522
This well-known greenway, with open, sunny habitats, wooded sections, thickets, and edges, is ideal for finding the best edible wild plants of early spring, and this tour, led by Violet Brill, will give you the best opportunity to learn about, collect, and enjoy some of our best common, tasty, renewable species. In open, sunny areas, we'll be finding common- and long-leaf plantain, related garden "weeds" that are loaded with dozens of biologically...
Sunday Aug 20th, 12–3pm Eastern Time
