Oct 8th
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Terrarium Party
Studio 45 @ 213 Troutman St, Brooklyn, NY 11237
Join us for a Terrarium Making Party! Create your own miniature botanical paradise as our instructors guide you in crafting a captivating indoor garden. With a variety of glass containers, vibrant plants, and charming accessories, unleash your creativity to design a unique piece. All ages and skill levels are welcome! Bond with friends and family as you immerse yourself in the therapeutic process. What you will get to bring home: A personalized...
Sunday Oct 8th, 10:30am–12pm 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...
Monday Oct 9th, 1–4pm 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...
Saturday Sep 30th, 1:30–4pm Eastern Time
Bonsai
RESOBOX @ 91 East 3rd St, New York, NY 10003
Bonsai is the ancient Japanese art form of miniature trees in containers. It is an art form that helps connect us to nature. Through this process, it strengthens our spirit. This is why Bonsai can be a figurative mirror image of the grower. With an open heart and mind, students can start their own journey of personal growth through the art of bonsai taught by Bonsai Master Julian Velasco. Learn the artistic, philosophical, horticultural, and technical...
Sunday Oct 29th, 11am–1pm 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,...
Saturday Sep 30th, 1:30–4:30pm Eastern Time
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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...
Saturday Oct 7th, 1:30–4:30pm 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 Oct 8th, 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 Oct 8th, 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...
Saturday Nov 18th, 1–4pm Eastern Time
Downtown Brooklyn Pizza Walk
Scott's Pizza Tours @ Boerum Hill / , Brooklyn, NY 11201
Trace the history of pizza by visiting a mix of wood-fired Neapolitan, coal-fired, and classic New York slice joints on this 2.5 hour walking tour. You'll hit a spread of neighborhoods including Boerum Hill. Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn Heights, and the Columbia Waterfront district. What's Included All tours include pizza tastings, kitchen tours, in-depth pizza analysis, and everybody gets a take-home Pocket Pizza Journal to help track their...
Saturday Oct 7th, 11:45am–2:15pm 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 Oct 14th, 11:45am–3:45pm Eastern Time
Forest Park (Teens/Adults)
"Wildman" Steve Brill @ 8040 Park Lane, Queens, 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 Oct 14th, 11:45am–3:45pm 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...
Sunday Oct 1st, 11:45am–3:45pm Eastern Time
IMMUNE SUPPORT Naturally!
Remedies Herb Shop @ 453 Court St, Brooklyn, NY 11231
With NYC based herbalist JoAnne Richards, we will share practical ideas and natural herbal remedies to prevent and relieve symptoms of common colds and flu, and support your body's innate immune response. Bring a notebook and a pen.
Thursday Sep 28th, 7–8:30pm Eastern Time
Herbs 101: Intro to Medicinal Herbs
Remedies Herb Shop @ 453 Court St, Brooklyn, NY 11231
Bring Herbal Healing into your life! Learn the basics of Traditional Herbal Medicine, according to the Wise Woman Tradition, and how it compares to other natural healing modalities and Modern Western Medicine. Begin to get to know your green allies, and how to prepare your own herbal medicine, including tinctures, infusions, oils and salves. We will share a nourishing infusion, and you will make and take home your own herbal medicine! ...
Thursday Oct 5th, 7–8:30pm Eastern Time
