Reading the Landscape; Identifying Trees & Plants

Reading the Landscape : Wild Tree & Plant Identification-
Learn the Ecological History of Prospect Park & the Eastern North American continent.
Going from 40,000 years ago to the present.

Using the patterns of nature and geological time, to guide your understanding of how to participate in meaningful ways with Natural Succession.

What are the inexorable elements of evolution and how can we engage with them wisely?
Learn about this Temperate Deciduous Forest and how to be an ally, for all that trees can bring to our world.

Come on out to take a walk with Andrew Faust ,your NYC Permaculture scholar & world renowned Bioregional Educator , 17 years in NYC and Brooklyn teaching this class here at Prospect park. We will discuss and explore the many useful gifts that forests and healthy ecologies provide.

Andrew will go more in depth into the process of reading the landscape.
Covering the geological history of Prospect park and the this part of the continent.
Describing the anthropogenic forests of indigenous people’s of the region.
The eco-social impacts of colonialism and industrialization and how to address them with a socially just and ecological ethic of care.

Bring a lunch for this informative and inspiring event!