Trumbull Nature and Arts Center
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This 2.5 hour tour covers cultivated areas, woods, hiking trails, fields, and thickets, on the grounds of a beautiful nature/arts center, and these habitats are perfect for late spring 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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It's insane that one of the world's tastiest berries were never cultivated. |
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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 2.5 walking tour begins at 9 AM, Saturday, June 13, at the Trumbull Nature and Arts Center, 7115 Main St., in Trumbull, CT. The fee is $15/adult, $10/child under 12.
Please call (203) 452-4421 at least 24 hours ahead reserve a place. |
