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Saxon Woods (Teens/Adults)

Discover the hidden flavors of nature in Saxon Woods with an expert forager. Unearth the delectable tastes of wild herbs and greens, from tangy sheep sorrel to peppery mustard. Join us on this flavorful adventure and expand your culinary horizons.

  • All levels
  • 13 and older
  • $20
  • Saxon Woods Park Parking lot, White Plains, NY
  • 2 hours & 30 minutes
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  • Saxon Woods Park @ Saxon Woods Park Parking lot 1800 Mamaroneck Ave, White Plains, NY 10605
  • 2 hours & 30 minutes
  • Saxon Woods Park parking lot, 1800 Mamaroneck Ave., White Plains, NY
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What you'll learn in this foraging class:

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.

Poor Man's Pepper

This is one of the best-tasting spicy greens in the world, and it's abundant, renewable, and free!

The hillside adjacent to the woods is also full of burdock, a delicious and healthful taproot, and its relative, common thistle. This forbiddingly thorny plant has a delicious, celery-like flower stalk. Simply wear work gloves until you've peeled off the forbidding-looking thorns.

Burdock

A.k.a. gobo, this tasty root is a staple in East Asia.

In the woods, we'll hunt for more edible and medicinal herbs and beverages such as piquant-flavored greenbrier leaves and shoots; ramps, the world's best onion species; and flavorful pokeweed shoots. We'll also be looking for root beer-flavored sassafras, wintergreen-flavored black birch, and jewelweed, a preventative for poison ivy and a panacea for insect bites and stings. 

For a finale, as we leave the woods, we'll find northern bayberry bushes, with leaves far superior to the unrelated but similarly-flavored bay leaf, growing in the parking lot.

Note:

  • Participants should be dressed for the weather, and be aware of very bad subway service. Trains are often canceled due to track work. 
  • No sandals (there are mosquitoes, thorns and poison ivy). Everyone should have plastic bags for veggies and herbs, paper bags for mushrooms, which spoil in plastic, containers for berries from late spring through fall, water and lunch, a pen to sign in and extra layers when it's cold.
  • Digging implements and pocket knives are optional. 
  • Dogs are permitted. Children are encouraged to attend.
  • There's no smoking whatsoever at any time.

Meeting Location: 

At the Saxon Woods parking lot north of the Hutchinson River Parkway, 1800 Mamaroneck Ave., near the swimming pool, not at the southern entrance.

School Notes:
If you can't attend the class you signed up for, please call or email "Wildman" Steve Brill a day before the start of the class. No-call/no-show creates an inconvenience to all participants since we can’t tell if absentees are having transportation issues, and this delays the start of the tour/class.

Kindly note that price posted is our suggested donation only.

Refund Policy

  • Participants can cancel 2 business days before an event and get a refund less a 5% nonrefundable registration fee.
  • If the participant failed to show up in the tour or failed to notify about their absence 2 business days before the class, they will be required to pay a $25 penalty per person before being allowed on another tour.
  • In any event where a customer wants to cancel their enrollment and is eligible for a full refund, a 5% processing fee will be deducted from the refund amount.

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  • Saxon Woods (Teens/Adults)

    Anonymous review on 11/18/2017
    Very informative and interesting. Memorable experience.
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