Hyde Park Foraging Walk

Come learn about and learn to identify about 20 wild, edible and medicinal plants in Hyde Park! Description: On this walk, participants will learn to identify and use ~20 wild edible plants of October in Chicago. Participants will also learn about safe and responsible harvesting practices, and about the role of foraging in its cultural and ecological context. This workshop happens on-the-move, so come ready to do some walking. We'll meet in front of the Hyde Park Neighborhood Club building, and make our way from there, ending the walk in the same spot. Participants under 18 must be accompanied by an adult. This event is family-friendly and LGBT+-friendly. (We are not affiliated with the Hyde Park Neighborhood Club.) Instructor Bio: Axel Peterman has been a forager since birth. Growing up in Woodlawn and Hyde Park, he worried many a middle school teacher and camp counselor by eating things that he'd found on the lawn, and by teaching his friends about them. After 11 years of teaching in the northern town of Ashland, WI, during which time he led over a hundred foraging walks as well as workshops on a variety of other subjects, he's back in Chicago, and thrilled to explore the wild edibles of his hometown --- and to teach folks about them. Axel has his BA in outdoor and environmental education from Northland College, and has offered foraging instruction in collaboration with Northland College, the Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute, the Northwoods Technical College, the Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center, activist Robin Greenfield, Experimental Station, the University of Chicago, and more.