This Brooklyn park is a great place for foragers to explore at the end of the winter as it features a variety of habitats filled with delicious native and exotic plants. Kentucky coffee-tree's seeds make caffeine-free coffee all year around. You'll find garlic mustard greens and sprouts, chickweed, which tastes like corn, bitter dock, as delicious cooked as it's awful raw, and ground ivy, a mint-flavored herb tea. Throughout the park, you'll come across stands of goutweed, an herb that tastes like parsley, carrots and celery. You can use it as a seasoning, or cook it like creamed spinach. Ginkgoes remain in season through early spring, whose nuts can be roasted and served as an appetizer. You'll also be finding black birch trees. You can use the twigs to make tea and birch beer. The tour will last for about 4 hours. Please wear a mask and observe social distancing.
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