Wild treasures of the city: Late summer foraging in Tiergarten

The flowers are bursting, the fruit is ripening – the sun has been working its magic, and the summer is offering so many wonderful wild flavors to savor!

Let's take a leisurely foraging wander through Berlin's largest park, where we'll explore the extraordinary diversity of planty wonders growing right in the heart of the city. So many of these wild and weedy friends that surround us are just packed with nutrition and medicine, and extraordinary, unique flavors.

With a warm and informative approach, we'll focus on easy-to-identify herbs, flowers, and fruits abundant in urban Berlin, which you can use to pep up your summer salads, make exquisite jams, syrups and pestos, craft potent tinctures, and much more – like the cornelian cherry (whose tart red fruits make both exquisite jam and oddly wonderful olives), wild hops (whose flowers gift deep sleep, and whose probing shoots can be used as tender asparagus), creeping charlie (whose minty wildness lends the perfect kick to a forest dessert), garlic mustard (who adds a zippy bite to any salad or sauce), and many, many others.

Join nature guide Simka (they/them), who will share practical tips on plant identification, explain each species' culinary and medicinal uses, offer insights into their surrounding folklore, and share lots of relevant recipes. And of course you'll learn how to keep yourself  – and the land and its other inhabitants – safe while foraging. 

Throughout the day, we'll pause often to harvest in safe and abundant spots, so that you can bring home a collection of delightful wild summer ingredients. You'll come away with a completely new perspective on the city's weedy & wild abundance, as well as loads of inspiration for how to incorporate it in the kitchen.

If you have a special interest in fermentation, tinctures, or any other culinary curiosities, do share it – we'll co-create the day's focus to match everyone's interests. Whether you're a complete foraging newbie or a seasoned explorer, you're warmly welcomed and there will be plenty to learn! 
 

When: Sunday August 17th, 11.00 - 15:00
Where: Tiergarten (~ 3km walking in total)
Cost: Sliding scale 35€ / 28€ / 20€ or pay what you can

Attendance is limited to 15 people, so registration is required!

Don't forget to read the confirmation email carefully for all information on the meeting point and what to bring.

A note on pricing & philosophy:

This tour is worth well over 35€. I'm offering my foraging tours this season on a sliding scale / pay-what-you-can basis, because it's a deep value of mine that this learning – which radically connects us with ourselves, the land, and one another – should be accessible for everyone.

However, I do rely on this income!

That means: if you have the means, pay the full fee, or more.

If you don't have the means, please feel fully invited to pay whatever you can.

And if you want to come, but genuinely cannot afford any extra expense, reach out to me directly for a 100% discount, no questions asked. I have absolutely been there, I see you, and I want you here.

I'm trying to do things differently, because it matters to me. Please join me in the complexity of building a better, more equal world!