Join me at home for a taste of winter’s preserved wild flavors, treats from Cape Town’s summer vermouth and caper-making, and botanical conversation
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Join Marie Viljoen as she unearths the potential of a number of these native plants that occur prolifically in the Northeast and across much of the United States, including bayberry, pawpaw, spicebush, and sweetfern. Viljoen will discuss the flavor profiles of these native plants (along with invasive but edible weeds) as well as their preparation and preservation methods in botanical and culinary detail.
We walk, talk, scratch and sniff (plants, not each other) and gather at the end for a picnic of wild flavors.
Our foraging expert describes how to use this ubiquitous yet under the radar wild spring ingredient.
Learn to identify the amazing range of wild edible plants that grow along the East River, in Brooklyn Bridge Park, before exploring the wild vegetation Columbia Street and finishing at The Gowanus Nursery.
In the edible ground elder understory we will learn to identify native prickly ash and elderflower shrubs, as well as spicebush in its anonymous summer camouflage. Our picnic will feature the greens of summer: amaranth and lamb’s quarters, with seasonal surprises.
A Gowanus streetwalk where we will visit a sidewalk garden and also find a surprising collection of resilient native and exotic edible plants, right under our feet and over our heads, including trees loaded with ripe serviceberries.
The walk will encompass botanical thugs, like ground elder, lesser celandine, garlic mustard and mugwort. The tasting picnic will feature, you guessed it: weeds.
This Saturday, 8 September, I will be leading a local walk in Brooklyn, along the wild edges of Dead Horse Bay.
You probably can’t even talk to your farmer about the ingredients in Forage, Harvest, Feast. They might even devote a not-insubstantial amount of time to weeding them out of their crop beds.
In early spring the edible seedlings and young shoots of flavorful invasive plants like garlic mustard, day lilies, ground elder, and mugwort are beginning to show themselves. Come and learn to spot them on a brisk walk in Prospect Park.
