Aug 10, 2009
POSTED BY Jay Babcock
Nance’s next public urban forages will be:
September 13, Lincoln Park, Chicago – meet at nature museum
October 11, Jackson Park, Chicago – meet at osaka garden tea house (this is a potluck – please bring something simple and wild to share)
3-5pm rain or shine
$10-$20 donation
Nance’s website: spontaneousvegetation.net
Here’s some pics and text about the August 11, 2009 Philly forage by Jennifer Kates on Flickr at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alligatorateher/sets/72157621993729204/
And here’s some sweet pics by Evan T. Wells from the Philly forage:
The resulting salad, with Nance’s thyme, vitex, wild grape and honey dressing…
we found:
lambs’ quarters, amarath, yellow wood sorrel, red clover, queen anne’s lace, mugwort, evening primrose, plaintain (both lance leafed and broad leafed), sweet annie, poplar,dandelion, yellow dock, burdock, poor man’s pepper, mullein, a solanaceae i am working on i.d.’ing, poision ivy and HOPS!
did i forget anything?
[...] 6. URBAN FORAGING WITH ARTHUR ‘WEEDEATER’ COLUMNIST NANCE KLEHM IN PHILLY RESULTS! We walked one block in two hours. We found lambs’ quarters, amarath, yellow wood sorrel, red clover, queen anne’s lace, mugwort, evening primrose, plaintain (both lance leafed and broad leafed), sweet annie, poplar, dandelion, yellow dock, burdock, poor man’s pepper, mullein, a solanaceae Nance is working on idenitifying, poision ivy and hops. All of these plants have medicinal value, and almost all of them were edible. all were growing wild in disturbed soil, disused grassy lots, or in “crack gardens” (Nance’s term) amidst concrete and refuse. See photos of the forage, and the salad we ate from what we found, here: http://www.arthurmag.com/2009/08/10/pix-from-yesterdays-urban-forage-with-nance-klehm-in-phillys-fis... [...]