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"Wildman" Steve Brill
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"Wildman" Steve Brill is an expert forager who has been sharing his wisdom through books, an app, and various presentations since 1982. His hands-on program aims to educate people about the environment, reconnect with nature, and enjoy the abundance of edible and medicinal wild plants and mushrooms.
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Hempstead Lake State Park (Teens/Adults)
Discover the bountiful and edible wonders of Hempstead Lake State Park in West Hempstead, NY. Join us for a unique foraging experience amidst diverse habitats, as we explore the abundance of nutritious and delicious plants like sassafras, chickweed, hairy bittercress, and field garlic. Uncover the flavors of nature and unleash your inner wildman/wildwoman.
$10
Stream in the Rambles of Central Park
"Wildman" Steve Brill @ Inside Central Park W & W 72nd St, New York, NY
The 2015 season, the 3rd, opens with this most popular of parks for foragers. Because of its varied habitats and the combination of wild and cultivated, native and exotic plants, Central Park is a great place to forage, even in the winter and early-spring. Here are some of the species we'll be finding: Cold-weather greens abound in Central Park in early March. In the Ramble, we'll be finding large stands of field garlic, with mild-flavored...
$20
Exploring Inwood Hill Park's Indian Caves
We'll be harvesting blackberries, and elderberries, both quite different from each other, and delicious. Inwood Hill Park is one of the best places for foragers in midsummer. The city's hilliest park, with a large, mature forest, meadows, thickets, and cultivated areas, it's loaded with wild plants. Most roots are out of season, but burdock, an expensive detoxifying herb sold in health food stores, is an exception, and it abounds in...
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McGolrick Park (Teens/Adults)
This small park in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, is packed with enough wild foods to keep us more than busy for hours. The event, co-sponsored by The Down to Earth Farmer's Market, will begin with a 30-minute presentation, including fresh specimens, artwork, recipe samples, and photos, at the market under the Shelter Pavilion, in the center of the park. A 2-hour walking tour will follow. Sunny, grassy areas will provide a pethora of late spring greens....
McGolrick Park (Kids 12 & Under)
This small park in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, is packed with enough wild foods to keep us more than busy for hours. The event, co-sponsored by The Down to Earth Farmer's Market, will begin with a 30-minute presentation, including fresh specimens, artwork, recipe samples, and photos, at the market under the Shelter Pavilion, in the center of the park. A 2-hour walking tour will follow. Sunny, grassy areas will provide a pethora of late spring greens....
Harbor Island Park (Kids 12 & Under)
This coastal park, with open, sunny habitats, as well as a beach, thickets, and edges, is ideal for finding the first edible wild plants of early spring, and this event, led by America's go-to gal for foraging, Violet Brill, will give you the best opportunity to learn about, collect, and enjoy these common, tasty, renewable species. In open, sunny areas, you'll be finding common- and long-leaf plantain, related garden "weeds" that are loaded...
Harbor Island Park (Teens/Adults)
This coastal park, with open, sunny habitats, as well as a beach, thickets, and edges, is ideal for finding the first edible wild plants of early spring, and this event, led by America's go-to gal for foraging, Violet Brill, will give you the best opportunity to learn about, collect, and enjoy these common, tasty, renewable species. In open, sunny areas, you'll be finding common- and long-leaf plantain, related garden "weeds" that are loaded...
Morningside Park (Kids 12 & Under)
This medium-sized part, with open, sunny habitats, as well as wooded areas and a small wetland, is ideal for finding the first edible wild plants of early spring. And this event, co-sponsored by Down to Earth Farmer's Market, will give you the best opportunity to learn about, collect, and enjoy these common, tasty, renewable species. A short demo at The Farmer's Market will familiarize you with some of the best in-season species....
Old Stone House (Teens/Adults)
The grounds of this historic house, built in 1699, has had plenty of time to accumulate edible "weeds," and with lots of open, sunny spots, sheltering walls, and disturbed habitats, it will be a great place to find late-season herbs, greens, fruits, berries, and roots. This will be our first foraging tour here, so surprises will abound, but here are a few of the delicious edibles we can expect to find: Chickweed does great in the cold weather....
Old Stone House (Kids 12 & Under)
The grounds of this historic house, built in 1699, has had plenty of time to accumulate edible "weeds," and with lots of open, sunny spots, sheltering walls, and disturbed habitats, it will be a great place to find late-season herbs, greens, fruits, berries, and roots. This will be our first foraging tour here, so surprises will abound, but here are a few of the delicious edibles we can expect to find: Chickweed does great in the cold weather....
Jack Harrington Greenway (Teens/Adults)
"Wildman" Steve Brill @ 43 Gedney Way, White Plains, NY
This scenic woodland trail, running between houses in a residential area, is a great place for foraging in early spring, and, beginning at 11:45 AM, foraging expert Violet Brill, America's First Lady of Foraging, will be showing you all the many common, renewable shoots, greens, flowers, roots, and mushrooms that abound here during the course of a 2.5 hour foraging tour. Of course, one of the first things you'll learn will be violets. The flowers...
$20
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Jack Harrington Greenway (Kids 12 & Under)
"Wildman" Steve Brill @ 43 Gedney Way, White Plains, NY
This scenic woodland trail, running between houses in a residential area, is a great place for foraging in early spring. Participants will see many common, renewable shoots, greens, flowers, roots, and mushrooms that abound here during the foraging tour. Of course, one of the first things you'll learn will be violets. The flowers are long gone, but sweet, mild leaves, which come up again in late fall, are great in salads, or cooked in any recipe...
$10
Bronx River Pathway (Kids 12 & Under)
In terms of quantity, quality, and variety, this early spring tour, along the Bronx River Pathway, is the best of the year. It's our only chance, for example, to find the strong-flavored, celery-like stems of the cow parsnip. Cooking tones down the flavor and creates delightful dishes from this little-known top-quality vegetable. If we've timed this tour correctly, we should also come across a stand of ostrich fern fiddleheads, at the peak of the...
Bronx River Pathway (Teens/Adults)
"Wildman" Steve Brill @ 1 Columbus Ave, Tuckahoe, NY
In terms of quantity, quality, and variety, this early spring tour, along the Bronx River Pathway, is the best of the year. It's our only chance, for example, to find the strong-flavored, celery-like stems of the cow parsnip. Cooking tones down the flavor and creates delightful dishes from this little-known top-quality vegetable. If we've timed this tour correctly, we should also come across a stand of ostrich fern fiddleheads, at the peak of the...
$20
Sheldrake Lake (Kids 12 & Under)
"Wildman" Steve Brill @ 685 Weaver St, Larchmont, NY
The 17-year-old foraging expert had been co-leading tours with her dad, "Wildman" Steve Brill, since she was 9. "I'm glad to be rid of her," exclaimed her grumpy father. "She finds all the plants and mushrooms faster than I do, she bosses me around, and she steals all my jokes!" Sheldrake Lake is great for early spring foraging. Right out of the parking lot, the group will collect garlic mustard, a nutritious, tasty, invasive, garlicky green with...
$10
Hempstead Lake State Park (Kids 12 & Under)
Explore the abundant and edible plants of Hempstead Lake State Park in this unique course. Discover the delicious flavors and medicinal properties of various shoots, greens, and flowers found in the park's diverse habitats. Expand your culinary repertoire with sassafras, chickweed, hairy bittercress, and more.
$10
Vanderbilt Museum
"Wildman" Steve Brill @ 180 Little Neck Rd, Centerport, NY
Discover a wild food bonanza in "Wildman" Steve Brill's course. Uncover a variety of cold-tolerant greens, flavorful roots, and even delicious seaweeds. Don't miss this opportunity to delve into the culinary and medicinal wonders of nature.
$20
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