Flushing Meadows Corona Park
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The Queens Museum of Art:
Nature Walk and Museum Highlights Tour. Join Naturalist "Wildman" Steve Brill in an exploration of the wild food and ecology of Flushing Meadows Corona Park. The Ecology Program lasts approximately 90 minutes, to be followed by Brunch at the Museum and a Queens Museum of Art Highlights tour. Hundreds of herbs, greens and berries grace our parks in early summer, and the sunny meadows and byways of Flushing Meadows Corona Park overflow with wild plants in season. This free event, which includes a "Wildman" indoor presentation and tour, is part of a Queens Museum of Arts' senior citizen event. Some of the late spring herbs and greens we'll be looking for include tasty violets, corn-flavored chickweed, mild, chewy common mallow; sow thistle, which tastes like lettuce; Asiatic dayflower, which tastes like string beans; and burdock, with a potato-artichoke flavored taproot, and artichoke-flavored flower stalk. |
 Shake the branches over a dropcloth and you'll have more of these prized fruits than you'll know what to do with! |
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Early summer berries, such as mulberries and juneberries, may also be dropping fruit, ripe for the picking! |
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The 30-minute talk at the Queens Museum of Art and 60-minute tour of Flushing Meadow-Corona Park meets at the Benjamin Rosenthal Senior Center, 45-25 Kissena Blvd., in Flushing, NY at 9:15 AM, Saturday, June 21. A bus will take you to the museum and park.
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The program is free, but limited to 20 participants. Please call the Benjamin Rosenthal Senior Center at (718) 886-5777 to reserve a place no more than a week before the event.
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