Berry Bonanza!

Saturday, August 7, 2021
10am-12pm EST

Did you know that it was just after the Civil War that our first anti-foraging laws emerged? And that they were driven by racism? Legal scholar Baylen J. Linnekin has shown that these laws were intended to eliminate freed slaves' access to the food that grew all around them and force them to remain tethered to plantation work even after emancipation. Today, we have the chance to reclaim this basic human activity as an act of joy, resistance, and belonging on the landscape.

Join me and Outdoor Afro for a ramble around the Middlesex Fells Reservation where we will have a chance to gather some of the wild foods and medicines growing just outside our doors. In this event, we'll focus on the berries available at this time of the year, discuss how we can prepare them, and explore how these various foods (and medicines) have been used and understood by various peoples around the world. By morning's end, we should each have some free and nutritious ingredients to bring home!

Registration: https://www.meetup.com/Outdoor-Afro-Boston/