Al Roker was great to work with here. Not only is he friendly and funny, but he's very smart, picking up everything I taught him about wild plants right away.

Can't say the same about the circumstances. The new anti-environmental parks administration, quite unhappy about my getting national coverage, was pressuring me to emphasize the dangers of dandelions and the threat foraging poses to the Earth over fun of foraging. Commissioner Gotbaum even had an obnoxious underling shadow me during the shoot in case I said were to say something she didn't like.

I resigned from the Parks Dept. and returned to freelance work soon thereafter.