How to Eat Weeds

Saturday, September 11, 2021, 8-10am, $35

- CLASS FULL - Please email Kendall at kendall@missiongarden.org to be put on a wait list or express interest in another ‘How to Eat Weeds’ class if one was made available.

Peggy Sue Sorensen and Mike Clow will lead a plant walk through the garden to show and sample the edible plants that are commonly called weeds.  Afterwards, they will give a PowerPoint presentation to further explain the summer weeds and to learn about the cool weather weeds that will soon be popping up in the garden.  They will bring some Mallow chips and Purslane pickles for sampling. Please join us for this unique opportunity to understand our gardens better and to incorporate healthy, and FREE, plants into our diets!

Please come prepared both for walking in the garden and for being indoors. Because of the COVID delta variant surge, Mission Garden again requires masks in an indoor or classroom setting, but they are not necessary outdoors when social distance is observed. 

Peggy Sue of The Desert Kitchen is a wild-foods enthusiast who enjoys helping people discover the edible cactus, trees and weeds that grow all around us but often are not recognized as food. 

Mike Clow of Desert Life Ranch is an engineer and entrepreneur who enjoys harvesting Prickly Pear fruit, Mesquite, Ironwood and Palo Verde beans and spreading the word about the edible plants in the desert southwest.

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