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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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Idlewild Park

"Wildman" Steve Brill @ 149th Ave, New York, NY

This park, with its fields, trails, and cultivated areas characteristic of the near-seashore environment, is great for mid-summer foraging. The most spectacular plant, which is common throughout the park, is the wineberry. This invasive, Asian raspberry is way tastier than anything for sale. Another berry that may be ripening already is the dewberry. This is a wild blackberry that trails along the ground, so tasty, it will make you want to throw...

(176) All levels 7 and older
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Oakland Lake in Alley Pond Park

"Wildman" Steve Brill @ Alley Pond Park, Queens, NY

You will learn how this large wetland park offers vast foraging opportunities, even as winter approaches.  We begin with a small, young woodland. It contains large quantities of field garlic, with leaves like chives and bulbs like onions or garlic. There's also garlic mustard, a garlic-flavored mustard green with a taproot that tastes like horseradish.  Nearby grows sassafras, with a root you can use for tea, as a sweet seasoning, or...

(176) All levels 7 and older
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The Queensway (Teens/Adults)

"Wildman" Steve Brill @ Woodhaven Blvd, New York, NY

In conjunction with Friends of The Queensway, this tour explores a long-abandoned RR line that runs through Forest Park, and it's one of the best places for foragering in mid-spring. The secondary growth forest, trail edges, and thickets overflow with wild plants. We’ll explore adjacent trails in Forest Park itself as well. This is the season for shoots, greens, and flowers. On the embankment off Forest Park Dr., above...

(176) All levels 13 and older
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Cunningham Park (Kids 12 & Under)

"Wildman" Steve Brill @ 19600 Union Tpke, Fresh Meadows, NY

This underappreciated urban park has enough habitat variety and plant species to keep foragers busy for days. We'll highlight those species in season as summer fades into fall, in conjunction with The Down to Earth Farmer's Market. The event begins with a wild demo at the market, before we set off into the woods, thickets, and fields that make up the park. The park is a great place for wild fruit, and plenty of species are ripe at...

(176) All levels 7 - 12 years old
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Cunningham Park (Teens/Adults)

"Wildman" Steve Brill @ 19600 Union Tpke, Fresh Meadows, NY

This underappreciated urban park has enough habitat variety and plant species to keep foragers busy for days. We'll highlight those species in season as summer fades into fall, in conjunction with The Down to Earth Farmer's Market. The event begins with a wild demo at the market, before we set off into the woods, thickets, and fields that make up the park. The park is a great place for wild fruit, and plenty of species are ripe at...

(176) All levels 13 and older
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Marine Park Coastline (Kids 12 & Under)

"Wildman" Steve Brill @ Avenue U & Burnett St , Brooklyn, NY

Join Violet Brill, America's go-to gal for foraging, as she takes you on a delicious adventure through Marine Park Coastline. Discover tasty wild foods and medicinal plants, and learn about renewable and invasive species in this underappreciated park. A perfect springtime activity for everyone!

(176) All levels 7 - 12 years old
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Alley Pond Park (Kids 12 & Under)

"Wildman" Steve Brill @ Alley Pond Park, Queens, NY

Discover the hidden flavors of a wetland park as winter approaches. Join us for a unique foraging experience, exploring the diverse plant life and sampling a variety of flavors, from garlic and mustard to wintergreen and peppery-sweet evening primrose. Don't miss out on this culinary adventure.

(176) All levels 7 - 12 years old
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Sheldrake Lake (Teens/Adults)

"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...

(176) All levels 13 and older
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Crawbuckie Park (Teens/Adults)

"Wildman" Steve Brill @ Near Beach Rd & Sandy Dr, Ossining, NY

This woodland will be loaded with shoots, greens, and roots of early spring. Common, renewable woodland greens we may find include, garlic mustard, field garlic, violets, goutweed, Solomon's seal, false Solomon's seal, Japanese knotweed, and stinging nettles. Shoots will be coming up too. We may find sour-flavored Japanese knotweed, savory day-lilies, and pungent ramps. Roots are in season as well. We could find burdock, wild carrots, and common...

(176) All levels 13 and older
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Crawbuckie Park (Kids 12 & Under)

"Wildman" Steve Brill @ Near Beach Rd & Sandy Dr, Ossining, NY

This woodland will be loaded with shoots, greens, and roots of early spring. Common, renewable woodland greens we may find include, garlic mustard, field garlic, violets, goutweed, Solomon's seal, false Solomon's seal, Japanese knotweed, and stinging nettles. Shoots will be coming up too. We may find sour-flavored Japanese knotweed, savory day-lilies, and pungent ramps. Roots are in season as well. We could find burdock, wild carrots, and common...

(176) All levels 7 - 12 years old
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Teatown Lake Reservation (Kids 12 & Under)

"Wildman" Steve Brill @ 1600 Spring Valley Rd, Ossining, NY

Teatown is a rich natural area full of edible and medicinal wild plants and mushrooms. The trails that encircle the lake guarantee an abundance of many common late summer herbs, greens, berries, and fungi.  Here's what we can expect:  Leafy greens such as poor man's pepper, wood sorrel, sheep sorrel, purslane, lamb's-quarters, and Asiatic dayflower are more than likely. Garlic mustard seeds...

(176) All levels 7 - 12 years old
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Teatown Lake Reservation (Teens/Adults)

"Wildman" Steve Brill @ 1600 Spring Valley Rd, Ossining, NY

 Teatown is a rich natural area full of edible and medicinal wild plants and mushrooms. The trails that encircle the lake guarantee an abundance of many common late summer herbs, greens, berries, and fungi.  Here's what we can expect:  Leafy greens such as poor man's pepper, wood sorrel, sheep sorrel, purslane, lamb's-quarters, and Asiatic dayflower are more than likely. Garlic mustard seeds...

(176) All levels 13 and older
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The Bedford Post Inn (Teens/Adults)

"Wildman" Steve Brill @ 954 Old Post Rd., New York, NY

The immediate grounds of this beautiful Inn, owned by actor Richard Gere, the adjacent forest, and the nearby roadsides promise large quantities of wild foods at the beginning of summer. We'll start with the plants growing in the grass near the upper parking lot, including Asiatic dayflowers, garlic mustard, poor man's pepper, and bitter dock. Then we'll head into the woods, where we'll collect indigenous species such as greenbrier, sassafras and...

(176) All levels 13 and older
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Nature Study Woods Park (Kids 12 & Under)

"Wildman" Steve Brill @ Flandreau Ave & Webster Ave, New Rochelle, NY

This vast, wooded park is fantastic for foraging in mid-spring, and naturalist and foraging expert Violet Brill, America's First Lady of Foraging, no shrinking Violet, will show you what to eat, and how to harvest everything safely and ecologically during the course of this 2.5 hour tour. May 26, 2019 Shoots will be at their best now. The growing tips of greenbrier, along with the developing young leaves, widespread throughout the woods, have a...

(176) All levels 7 - 12 years old
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Nature Study Woods Park (Teens/Adults)

"Wildman" Steve Brill @ Flandreau Ave & Webster Ave, New Rochelle, NY

This vast, wooded park is fantastic for foraging in mid-spring, and naturalist and foraging expert Violet Brill, America's First Lady of Foraging, no shrinking Violet, will show you what to eat, and how to harvest everything safely and ecologically during the course of this 2.5 hour tour. May 26, 2019 Shoots will be at their best now. The growing tips of greenbrier, along with the developing young leaves, widespread throughout the woods, have a...

(176) All levels 13 and older
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Croton Aqueduct (Kids 12 & Under)

"Wildman" Steve Brill @ Cedar St, Dobbs Ferry, NY

Discover the best edible wild plants of early spring on this outdoor tour led by Violet Brill. Learn about and collect common, tasty, renewable species while exploring open, sunny habitats and wooded sections. Perfect for children to attend!

(176) All levels 7 - 12 years old
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Saxon Woods (Kids 12 & Under)

"Wildman" Steve Brill @ Saxon Woods Park Parking lot, White Plains, NY

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....

(176) All levels 7 - 12 years old
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Hempstead Lake State Park (Teens/Adults)

"Wildman" Steve Brill

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.

(176) All levels 13 and older
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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...

(176) All levels 7 and older
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Exploring Inwood Hill Park's Indian Caves

"Wildman" Steve Brill

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...

(176) All levels 7 and older
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