About this Event
Mugwort is for dreaming. This rhizomatic, perennial is a persistent and common “W**d” found across North America. Called the "mother of herbs," it is also used across different cultures for medicinal, spiritual and culinary purposes. Join us for a mugwort harvest and plant walk at the Naval Cemetery Landscape (NCL), a public space built and maintained by Brooklyn Greenway Initiative (BGI).
We’ll learn more about mugwort and its ecological considerations from an NCL gardener, receive training to harvest the plant, and then prepare some of it to dry for our June Taiwanese Dragon Boat decoration class, and some to cook and eat on site.
What’s Included:
- Water
- Ingredients for cooking
- Materials for drying
What to Bring:
- Gardening gloves (optional)
- Pruners (optional)
- Pants and long-sleeve shirts for harvesting in the meadow (optional)
- Hat (optional)
- Water bottle (encouraged! there is no water on site)
About Facilitators:
雲海 offers a selection of premium ingredients for Taiwanese and Chinese cooking. We source directly from artisans, farms, and soy sauce breweries in Taiwan. Terrain, technique, history, and humanity come together in the traditional foods we distribute.
Brooklyn Greenway Initiative built the on the site of the former Naval Hospital Cemetery at the Brooklyn Navy Yard as a place for retreat and remembrance while honoring its rich layers of natural and cultural history. This site was designed as a native plant meadow and pollinator habitat, and provides visitors with an escape from urban life.
About Field Meridians Nature School
FM Nature School is a project to co-create an arts-based urban ecology curriculum that reflects our neighborhood in Brooklyn—aiming to generate tools for resilience.
Field Meridians is an artist collective committed to strengthening local food ecologies. Through site-specific programming, publishing, and radio broadcast, Field Meridians engages the Crown Heights community to lay the foundations for food sovereignty in the heart of Brooklyn. Field Meridians is an extension of MOLD magazine, the critically acclaimed online and print magazine about design and the future of food.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Naval Cemetery Landscape, 63 Williamsburg Street West, Brooklyn, United States
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