Spring Wild Edibles Workshop

"Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food."

There is an abundance of wild, free food, that doubles as medicine, growing all around us! In this hands-on workshop, we will get to know early spring edible plants that can be found growing locally. We'll discuss how to identify them as well as how to work with them for food and/or medicine.

We'll start by gathering for herbal tea and introductions at the patio picnic table. We will then take a walk around the garden focusing on wild edible and medicinal plants that emerge in early spring. As we nibble our way through the garden, we will be harvesting the plants we meet to make a wild pesto together.

Some wild spring edibles we may meet and explore include:

purple dead nettle, Lamium purpureum

violet, Viola spp.

chickweed, Stellaria media

dandelion, Taraxacum officinale

nettle, Urtica dioica

bittercress, Cardamine hirsuta

ground ivy, Glechoma hederacea

onion grass, Allium vineale

peppergrass, Lepidium virginicum

garlic mustard, Alliaria petiolata

henbit, Lamium amplexicaule

What to bring:

A notebook and writing utensil if you use them.

A harvest basket or bag if you have one

Any snacks you may want to enjoy with it such as crackers, veggies, etc.

A small container in case there is enough pesto for folks to take a sample home

**Note: The parking area is grass & may become unsafe in wet conditions. Please check your registration email in case of cancellation prior to leaving for class, especially if there have been unfavorable storms.

Accessibility and Promotions:

Four reduced-price Scholarship tickets are available for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color) individuals.

Five reduced-price Scholarship tickets are available for Seniors, Students, and other people in low-income circumstances.

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We are currently only accepting donations of LARGE sized glass jars, quart size or larger only, with lids. Always welcoming donations of harvest baskets.

Located in Fulton, Maryland, The Green Farmacy Garden is a sanctuary for approximately 300 native and non-native species of plants that have been worked with traditionally and/or researched for medicinal applications. USDA botanist James A. Duke, PhD, and his wife, Peggy, collected medicinal plants for over sixty years. In 1997, they transformed part of their pasture land into a teaching garden highlighting the plants that are featured in Jim’s book, The Green Ph*rm*cy.

The Green Farmacy Garden is also a part of the United Plant Savers network of sanctuaries around the country, which strive to educate the public and maintain native plant species that have become at risk or endangered.

In 2022, The Green Farmacy Garden became a sister site of Freetown Farm, part of the Community Ecology Institute based in Columbia, Maryland. The legacy gardeners are delighted and honored to have the garden continuously cared for as an educational garden & community space, and be a part of the fundamental ecological & educational community work of local non-profit The Community Ecology Institute.

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