Posted on 04/18/2017 1:54:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
"Wildman Steve Brill" served the audience dandelions, chickweed and onion grass during his presentation on edible weeds at the Scarsdale Public Library on March 31. Steve Brill has been foraging, or gathering wild foods, for over 35 years. Early on he was arrested and handcuffed by undercover park rangers for eating a dandelion in Central Park. Subsequently, after his educating the New York City Parks Department, they hired him to give public foraging tours in Central Park.
We dipped corn chips into a delightful pesto made with garlic mustard. Garlic mustard (scientific name Alliaria petiolata) came from Europe and parts of Asia and is invasive, aggressively taking over our forests floors by outcompeting the native forest plants that support our local ecology. Perhaps our eating non-native invasive plants can be part of a strategy to garlicmustard
Garlic mustard is great raw in salads, mixed with more mild greens. It's also good steamed, simmered, or sauteed.
help control them.
Steve's daughter Violet provided parts of the presentation with surprising knowledge and poise for a seventh grader. She has her sights on becoming an ornithologist as well as an expert forager.
The Bronx River-Sound Shore Audubon Society brought this delicious presentation to Scarsdale.
For recipes and information about foraging, his website is at www.wildmanstevebrill.com.
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We may need to know this someday.
The NYPD arrested someone for picking weeds in Central Park? OMG that is so insane!
Arrested and handcuffed for eating a dandelion? Is it illegal to cut foliage in Central Park?
I guess that makes sense. But I wouldn’t eat one from Central Park; I would imagine there are pesticides and who knows what on the foliage. I eat mine, occasionally; we have a rural property and don’t use chemicals.
Dandelions are good for your liver, though.
I took a tracking/survival class from Tom Brown Jr.’s wilderness survival school a few years ago. One time we had to forage for edible weeds to make a salad.
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Dandelions and beaver tail cactus leaves are edible. I recommend that you remove the thorns from the cactus first.
I agree.
Anyone trying to feed me weeds needs to be locked up.
Ever eat a Pine tree?
My grandmother always cooked us dandelions; she would cook them just like any leafy green, also added olive oil, garlic and grated cheese...stuff was great!!
What are plants that are not weeds called?
Encyclopedia of medicinal. plants by Andrew Chevalier
Grew up eating pig weed and dandy lions, the yellow flowers on dandy lions also made a great jellly.
Per the article, they were undercover cops. Probably on a stakeout, looking out for dandelion rustlers.
My father should have been arrested. He forced me to pull Dandelions and I think I must have put 50 lb.s of them in a trash bag.
“What are plants that are not weeds called?”
domesticated plants ???
the undead?
Pretty plants.
Pig weed is good. About the same nutrition as spinach. It’s a wild amaranth so the seeds are edible and nutritious too if you can stand to winnow them out of the very prickly bracts.
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