A great abundance of edible and medicinal wild plants and mushrooms makes this park a great place for foraging in late summer: burdock, an expensive detoxifying herb sold in health food stores; the root of sassafras, which tastes like root beer, makes a great tea, as well as root beer; common spicebush and ground ivy (a gentle herbal diuretic). You will find plenty of leafy green vegetables, such as hedge mustard, yellow watercress, wood sorrel, goutweed, lamb’s-quarters (wild spinach), chickweed (which tastes like corn). Gourmet fruits are represented by native hawthorn berries, relatives of apples, used in herbal medicine as a heart tonic. The tour will last for about 4 hours. Please wear a mask and observe social distancing.
Brooklyn, New York, NY