Join expert mushroom identifier and practicing vegan freegan Zaac
Chaves on an expedition around Wesleyan in search of wild foods this
Thursday, April 29th, at 4:15pm.
Zaac writes that "we could potentially find gourmet ostrich ferns, the
sweet tasting and invasive black locust flowers, the sour japanese
knotweed, the herbally sought after solomon's seal(and eat the shoots
without killing the plant), ever popular ramps, stinging nettles - one
of my favorites which are iron rich and used against anemia, daylilys
which are very common in central CT and a good survival food, the
cultivated gourmet stropharia mushrooms which favor our area, and if
we are lucky maybe the rare and elusive black morel."
In addition to his foraging expertise, Zaac is one of the only known
people to have bicycled to Quebecois regions of Tundra forestry (where
trees end), a two-month solo journey, during which he picked wild
mushrooms and ate primarily "found" calories.
He is a frequent volunteer with Sun One Organic Farm and with the
recovery work of abused and neglected animals brought to The Woodstock
Farm Animal Sanctuary. Amidst this work, he says he remains "critical
of the pride surrounding green-consumer identity and of the
agricultural foundation of life-to-waste decisions, stemming from the
premise of domestication."
So come walk and talk with Zaac and find some tasty wild plants while
you're at it! Meet outside of Weshop (small campus grocery store past
Olin Library on Church St.)
For more information on other WesFRESH events this week, see
http://wesgreenscene.blogspot.
Chaves on an expedition around Wesleyan in search of wild foods this
Thursday, April 29th, at 4:15pm.
Zaac writes that "we could potentially find gourmet ostrich ferns, the
sweet tasting and invasive black locust flowers, the sour japanese
knotweed, the herbally sought after solomon's seal(and eat the shoots
without killing the plant), ever popular ramps, stinging nettles - one
of my favorites which are iron rich and used against anemia, daylilys
which are very common in central CT and a good survival food, the
cultivated gourmet stropharia mushrooms which favor our area, and if
we are lucky maybe the rare and elusive black morel."
In addition to his foraging expertise, Zaac is one of the only known
people to have bicycled to Quebecois regions of Tundra forestry (where
trees end), a two-month solo journey, during which he picked wild
mushrooms and ate primarily "found" calories.
He is a frequent volunteer with Sun One Organic Farm and with the
recovery work of abused and neglected animals brought to The Woodstock
Farm Animal Sanctuary. Amidst this work, he says he remains "critical
of the pride surrounding green-consumer identity and of the
agricultural foundation of life-to-waste decisions, stemming from the
premise of domestication."
So come walk and talk with Zaac and find some tasty wild plants while
you're at it! Meet outside of Weshop (small campus grocery store past
Olin Library on Church St.)
For more information on other WesFRESH events this week, see
http://wesgreenscene.blogspot.
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