President's Day WILD PLANTS HIKE... Food, Medicine, and Tools (Walnut Creek)

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Join me for a hike in one of my favorite hiking

places. This area is full of shade, compliments of the prolific oaks, sycamores and other wild trees. This hike will take us along a stream that is teaming with life, including crayfish, frogs, fish, and other aquatic life.

If you've been on my other more desert like Hike, this one is far removed from that, so includes a whole new list of flora.

We'll explore this abundant, full of life area and you'll be able to sample some of the wild foods as well as learn how to use them for tools and medicine, just like the Native Americans.

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You'll be surprised at the uses many of the plants and trees you come in contact with on a daily basis have.

You'll be surprised at the uses many of the plants and trees you come in contact with on a daily basis have.

Medicine
Coffee substitute
Fire making
Tools
Food
Pain Reliever
...and more

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The hike/exploration is fairly easy and should last about 2.5 hours

Bring comfortable appropriate clothing, water and a snack if you want.

We will do a couple of stream crossings

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Location:

Please use this maplink for directions... NOT MAPQUEST, or your own GPS unit, as they will not take you to the right place.

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• From Badillo Ave, in San Dimas:
• Go South on Lyman about 1/4 mile
• Left On Scarborough LN
• Drive down the street to the end. Cross the small bridge and enter the dirt parking lot area on the right.

The map shows the route with a red line and the parking is in blue.

If the parking lot is full, please park on Scarborough Ln.

For those that would like to punch it into their GPS, the nearest address is

1945 Scarborough LN
San Dimas, CA

THIS ADDRESS IS ONLY FOR GPS REFERENCE. DO NOT ENTER THE RESIDENCE DRIVEWAY. PARK IN THE DIRT LOT TO THE RIGHT.

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What others are saying:

Great plant walk, Alan. Thanks so much for the great information in both identifying useful and problem plants. I loved it and can't wait for another season to see these plants in a different stage. Very well done. 5 Stars from me!

I was not able to attend but my sons Dustin and Garrett came and had a great time. I have been teaching them but there's always techniques to learn and they tell me Alan was a great teacher.

Outstanding! Thank you Alan for another great adventure!

This was an excellent workshop. I learned so much, and had a lot of fun in the process. Alan is a fabulous instructor.

It was a great hike, lots of good and valuable information was provided during the hike. Great people, a great time.

This was a great class. The information we received was so excellent. Thank you Alan, you are a real community resource.

Fantastic group! Nice way to spend a morning with cool people learning about the plants and their uses. I can spot tobacco plants, Yerba Santa, horse weed, california pepper, buckwheat, currants, yucca and know what I can do with them. Thanks guys!

CLASS BEGINS PROMPTLY AT 9AM