Edible Weeds Walk
Event description
Proudly hosted by the Mulberry Community Garden spring festival, Adam Grubb, of Very Edible Gardens will take you on an amazing journey into the world of weeds.
Amazingly, most common weed plants of Melbourne are edible! A free and nutritious feast awaits the knowledgeable forager. Learn how to use plants like dandelion, sow thistle, mallow, wild cabbage, wild onions, stinging nettle and many more – along with any dangerous look-alikes. A surprising number of our weeds also have long medical and cultural traditions. You can bring some weeds from home that you want identified (as well as any surplus produce, seeds, cuttings, plants, gardening magazines etc to swap and share)
Adam is co-author of The Weed Forager's Handbook and Let's Eat Weeds: A Kid's Guide to Foraging, which will be available for sale at a discount price on the day.
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This is an outdoor event and will go ahead in all weather, so please come prepared with hat, sunscreen, rain jacket, water bottle etc.
Please note that this is an event for Naarm/Melbourne gardeners only. If you live outside this area, please contact your council to find out what free sustainable gardening events are available locally.
If you have any access or support questions or requirements in order to participate fully (eg. interpreter), please let us know at least two weeks prior to the event and we will be pleased to assist you. Photos will be taken at this event, but there is an option to opt out on the day.
This My Smart Garden event is proudly presented by Merri-Bek City Council on the land of Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung people of the Kulin nation. My Smart Garden pays our respect to Elders past, present and emerging and acknowledges that First Nations peoples have cared for Country sustainably for tens of thousands of years.
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