It was cold, but we still had a great turnout and great fun at both our walks at Frick Park Earth Day celebration last Saturday! Thanks to everyone who braved the cold!
We saw so many wild edibles...way more was up this year than last year, even though the event was held the same weekend last year! I guess our warm temperatures at the beginning of the month caused a lot more to come up.
Here are some things we saw:
Fiddleheads
Violets
Garlic Mustard
We also saw:
dandelion
burdock
lambs quarters
japanese knotweed
may apple - ripe fruit is only edible part of this plant
bloodroot (medicinal, not edible)
mugwort
cut-leafed toothwort
onion grass
jewelweed (poison ivy remedy)
poison ivy - not edible, please do not eat!
Please join us for our next wild edible walk, which is this Sunday, April 25, 2010 at 11 am at the south side river trail in Pittsburgh! It is $5/person (children under 10 free). For more information visit our events page. Please call (412) 381-0116 to register, so we know to expect you.
Thanks!
~ Melissa and David Sokulski, acupuncturists and herbalists
Food Under Foot
Birch Center for Health
(412) 381-0116
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