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 Pocantico Hills, NY - At 1 PM, Sunday, November 8, naturalist/author "Wildman" Steve Brill will lead one of his world-famous foraging tours of Stone Barns Center in Pocantico Hills, NY.
Here's a natural area you'll love exploring in late fall, with lots of surprises still in store. There are cultivated areas, thickets, streams, and woodlands, all with different plant communities.
Stone Barns is a great place for mushrooms. With enough rain beforehand, we might find late-season species, such as pear-shaped puffballs, gem-studded puffballs, oyster mushrooms, enoki mushrooms, and blewits.
Wild herbs and greens could also be thriving in fields and disturbed habitats. We'll look for lamb's-quarters (a wild spinach), ground ivy, wood sorrel, sheep sorrel, poor man's pepper, field pennycress, hedge mustard, and Asiatic dayflower. In addition, we'll be finding culinary and medicinal herbs such as black birch, yarrow, sassafras, and spicebush leaves and berries.
Roots are in season in autumn, so we'll be finding burdock root, which tastes like a combination of potato and artichoke; wild carrots, and common evening primrose.
The 2-hour walking tour begins at 1 PM, Sunday, November 8, at Stone Barns Center, 630 Bedford Rd., in Pocantico Hills, NY. The fee is $25/person, payable to Stone Barns. Call (914) 366-6200 x 151 at least 24 hours ahead to reserve a place. For the 2009 tour calendar and additional info, visit http://www.wildmanstevebrill.com.
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