Thursday January 28, 2010

will barter for skills

This post is also featured on Greenopolis.

Skillsharing is hot right now. Maybe it’s because most everyone is on a budget or perhaps there’s been a great awakening where people feel compelled to share resources, time, and

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Monday September 22, 2008

foraging with the wildman

We gathered a small feast of wild edibles this past Saturday in Prospect Park on our latest foraging tour — this time with “Wildman” Steve Brill. Both the content of his tour and his conduct explain

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Monday September 8, 2008

exploring, gathering

With no immediate intentions other than eating our lunch, my bf and I went to Prospect Park yesterday afternoon. The weather was amazing — sunny but not too hot, perfectly comfortable in the shade —

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Wednesday September 3, 2008

foraging find: spicebush berries

My friend Anne and I went for a nice walk in the park yesterday and I couldn’t help but point out all of the plants I learned about during my recent foraging class. Sassafras, lady’s thumb,

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Tuesday August 26, 2008

stalking the wild asparagus

This one’s for you, Dad!

If you don’t know who Euell Gibbons was (I didn’t), let’s just say he was an expert on wild edibles (he died a year before I was born). Growing up during the

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Monday August 25, 2008

yesterday’s brooklyn foraging tour

To round out our weekend of enjoying the great outdoors of this fair borough, my boyfriend and I joined a class called “Feasting for Free in Brooklyn” through the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (but led mainly through

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