Ijams Field Day: Wild Spring Edibles (Adult Program)
Sat, Apr 24
|Ijams Nature Center
Join Ijams' Education Director and forage for edible and medicinal plants.


Time & Location
Apr 24, 2021, 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Ijams Nature Center, 2915 Island Home Ave, Knoxville, TN 37920, USA
About the Event
Recommended for ages 18 and up
Description: Learn 10 spring wildflowers and plant foods that you can find almost anywhere! Join the Ijams Education Director for a class to help you learn how to locate and identify many of the delicious edible plants growing wild in your community. You'll leave this program with new skills on basic plant identification, techniques for foraging and using spring edibles, and a new understanding of wild plant nutrition and medicinal benefits hidden all around us.
Materials Participants Should Bring: Walking shoes, long pants, a journal to draw and take notes, clothes for rain or cold, water bottle, sunscreen (NOTE: We will be close to plants and their pollen-y parts, walking through fields with critters in them, and near muddy, uneven surfaces)
Information to Note: Participants should be prepared to go off trail and into the mud to overturn rocks and logs.
Location: This program meets…
Tickets
TN. Naturalist Ticket
This ticket price is available ONLY for past or current participants in the TN. Naturalist Course.
$30.00
+$0.75 ticket service fee
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This ticket is for participants who have not been involved in the TN. Naturalist Course at Ijams.
$40.00
+$1.00 ticket service fee
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