Wild Treasures of the City: Summer Foraging in Tiergarten

Dive head-first into summer as you learn about the delicious wild edible plants you can find all over Berlin with an expert local foraging guide!

KEY FACTS

• Distance & duration: 3 km walking, 3.5 hours from start to closing, break times along the way
• Language: Our community language is English, German plant names can also be provided upon request
• Difficulty: Easy – walking on marked paths / roads, flat terrain, relaxed pace.
• Price: 45€ / 35€
• Group size: Limited to 15 people (Dandelion bookings not RSVP count!)

Note: you MUST register via Dandelion to join the tour.

FORAGING SEASON IS HERE!
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!

Join Simka (they/them) for a leisurely foraging wander through Berlin's largest park, where we'll explore the extraordinary diversity of edible wonders growing wild right in the heart of the city. So many of these cheerful, 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 staghorn sumac (also known as vinegar tree, for good reason!), cornelian cherry (whose tart red fruits make both exquisite jam and oddly wonderful olives), creeping charlie (whose minty wildness lends the perfect kick to a forest dessert), and many, many others!

I'll 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 I'll teach you 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!

SECURE YOUR SPOT & GET YOUR TICKET HERE:
https://dandelion.events/e/c7nxf

You must register & buy your ticket via Dandelion to secure your spot!

Once you are registered, you will receive an email with all details on what to bring and the exact meeting location.

A note on pricing & philosophy from Simka:
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, which is why I'm keeping my tours as low-price as I possibly can.

There are two ticket levels: Full price and Concession. Please choose the concession level only if you aren't able to afford the full price ticket.
If the concession level is also not accessible for you, I really see you and I still want you to come foraging with me! I'll be offering a fully donation-based community tour once a month throughout the season. Please join my Telegram group or send me an email to get updates on future Community tours!

My intention with all of this is to earn a living wage while widening the reach of financial accessibility to more folks than I was able to with my previous sliding-scale model. Thanks for being with me in navigating through the challenges of capitalism with justice, honesty and compassion!