Hayden Stebbins, Ethnobotanist
Did you know many of the weeds painstakingly pulled from your garden are in fact edible and more nutritious than what you can buy in a store?
The whole family can learn about the edible plants that grow in your back yard with ethnobotanist Hayden Stebbins. Many plants that we try to banish from our gardens and yards are delicious, nutritious, and pernicious. Join ethnobotanist and forager Hayden Stebbins (haydensharvest.com) on a walk through the Caryl and Edna Haskins Preserve in Westport. Throughout the walk, Hayden will discuss common weeds, invasive plants mushrooms. You will look at your yard (and plate) in a whole new way after this walk.
Hayden Stebbins graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelors of Science in Science of Natural and Environmental Systems, earned a Master of Science from Schumacher College in England in Sustainable Horticulture and Food Production, and is currently pursuing a Master of Forestry at Yale School of the Environment. He has shadowed ethnobotanist Marc Williams (Director of botanyeveryday.com and Plants and Healers International, and editor of Botany in a Day) in Asheville, NC, taught about edible and medicinal plants and mushrooms up and down the eastern seaboard. He has completed the full-time clinical herbalism program at the Eclectic School of Herbal Medicine. He managed a small regenerative agriculture project in Brooktondale, New York exploring how food and medicine production could regenerate degraded land dominated by introduced species.
Please note, there are no bathroom facilities.
Event is open to the public. Priority to members. Maximum 25 people. RSVP required.