Foraging is Fun!
About a month ago I stopped by Prospect Park in Brooklyn for some foraging fun. I swooped up some lambsquarters (leafy green which grows like a weed related to quinoa), wild scallions, garlic mustard (in the mustard family and very invasive),mugwort (makes for some lucid dreams, is used in Korea, and can help in child birth), hawthorn berry (good for your heart), and spice bush leaves (the only native to the region I know and is related to sassafras; makes a good tea). How do I know where and what to look for? Well some simple research and talking to Nat Bletter, an ethnobotanist at the New York Botanic Garden.
I am going to use the lambsquarters, wild scallions, and garlic mustard in salads and stir fry. I am going to make tea with the hawthorne berry and spice bush. The mugwort is going under my pillow…
