Deer Path Park
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This free tour, part of the NJ Mycological Association's annual Bob Peabody Wild Foods Foray, covers a suburban park with woods, hiking trails, fields, thickets, and recreation areas that are the kinds of habitats that are perfect for wild foods.
The berry season is just beginning, and we'll be looking for the first wild fruits of the year, wild strawberries, mulberries, and juneberries. |
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The quantity of fruit this tree produces is too good to be true, and when the season ends after a couple of weeks, it's hard to believe it could have happened. |
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Plenty of spring greens still abound as summer approaches. We'll be hunting for common milkweed, wood sorrel, lamb's-quarters, purslane, and poor man's pepper. Other wild foods and herbs we may find include burdock root, mullein, sassafras, red clover, common spicebush, jewelweed, black birch, and pineapple weed. With enough rain beforehand, late spring or early mushrooms such as chicken mushrooms, wine-cap stropharias, Berkeley's polypores, black-staining polypores, or fairy ring mushrooms could be abundant. |
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The free public walking tour begins at 10 AM, Sunday, June 14, rain or shine, at Deer Path Park, 120 West Woodschurch Rd., in Flemington, NJ. It will be followed by a brief talk on wild foods at 12 PM, and a free potluck lunch for members only (but you can join on the spot) running until about 2 PM, all sponsored by the NJ Mycological Association.
Call (609) 466-4690 for further information. No reservations are necessary. |
