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ENVIRONMENTALIST AND AUTHOR "WILDMAN" STEVE BRILL TO SPEAK AT EASTON GARDEN CLUB'S OCTOBER 9TH MEETING ~Will Offer a Hands-on Program Focused on Common Wild Plants~
Environmental
educator, consultant to the NYC Board of Education, author and naturalist “Wildman”
Steve Brill will be the featured speaker at the October 9th meeting
of the Easton Garden Club. The Club meets in the Community Room of the
Easton Public Library at 691 Morehouse Road in Easton. Brill’s lecture, “Wild Foods of the Northeast”
will begin at 12:30PM. The meeting is open to the public.
The hands-on
environmental program will focus on common wild plants, putting people in touch
with their environment and motivating them to understand science and to
practice conservation. Participants get to see, touch, smell, and taste
representative species of the wild edible and medicinal herbs, greens, fruits,
berries, nuts, seeds, roots, and mushrooms that constitute the backbone of our
local ecosystems. Many of the specimens
are the same plants people remove or destroy in their backyards or gardens.
Brill has appeared
in numerous television segments touting the benefits of foraging within our
local environments. Copies of the
environmentalist’s books will be available for sale at the meeting.
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About Steve Brill
Naturalist-Author
"Wildman" Steve Brill has been leading foraging tours in parks
throughout the Greater NY area since 1982. His book Identifying and
Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants in Wild (and Not-So-Wild) Places
(William Morrow Publishers, 1994) is considered a classic on the subject, and his
innovative Wild Vegetarian Cookbook (Harvard Common Press, April, 2002) has
changed the way people think about preparing gourmet food. Shoots and Greens of Early Spring in
Northeastern North America (self-published 1986 and 2008) teaches people
how the foraging season begins, and his DVD series Foraging With the
"Wildman" shows people how it's all done. Brill also created a Wild Edibles app for
hand-held devices. But he's still best known for having been handcuffed and
arrested by undercover park rangers for eating a dandelion in Central Park! To learn more, visit http://www.wildmanstevebrill.com.
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About the Easton Garden Club
Celebrating its seventy-fifth year,
the Easton Garden Club's purpose is to increase interest in gardening among
membership and the community and to advance practical knowledge in the culture
and care of plants, shrubs, trees, birds and wildflowers. The club is
concerned with open space in the community, and works to protect the
environment and improve the quality of life in Easton through contributory and
charitable activities. The Easton Garden Club is a non-profit
organization.