Discover the bounty of edible and medicinal plants thriving in Brooklyn!
Take a walk with Leda Meredith and Liz Neves, your guides in this immersive, experiential workshop where you will learn:
how to correctly identify plants
ethical harvesting practices
historical and current uses for edible and medicinal plants from a variety of cultural perspectives
the ways plants communicate their medicine to us
practical and spiritual uses of plants
Masks required.
Please bring anything you need to feel comfortable (water, snacks, warm layers).
Copies of Northeast Foraging and Northeast Medicinal Plants will be available for sale.
$40 suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds. Children under 12 admitted free.
Limited spots available.
We'll meet at the Lincoln Road entrance to Prospect Park, at Ocean Avenue.
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Leda Meredith is the author of seven books including Northeast Foraging: 120 Wild and Flavorful Edibles from Beach Plum to Wineberries (Timber Press) and The Skillful Forager: Essential Techniques for Responsible Foraging and Making the Most of Your Wild Edibles (Roost Books). A certified ethnobotanist, Leda has been an instructor at the New York Botanical Garden and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden for almost two decades. Currently a nomad beginning to put down roots in Costa Rica, she spent twenty one years in Brooklyn. Leda delights in that moment when a city dweller realizes that nature is not something they have to go on vacation to visit, but what they have been a vital part of all along.
Liz Neves is an herbalist, reiki and healing drum practitioner, dream guide, meditation instructor, and mama living and teaching in Lenapehoking (mainly Brooklyn, NY). She’s the author of Northeast Medicinal Plants: Identify, Harvest, and Use 111 Wild Herbs for Health and Wellness (Timber Press). In 2014 she founded Gathering Ground as a platform for herbal education, earth-based spirituality, and ancient wisdom teachings. She has come to this path led by her experiences - of leaving the corporate world, of becoming a mother, of guidance from dreams. Liz believes we learn our greatest lessons directly from the natural world, from dreams, from the plants, and from our own internal guidance.