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Ava recently appeared on WNYC's "All Things Considered" with Amy Eddings (93.9 FM) to discuss summer wineberries. She was a judge for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Greenest Block in Brooklyn 2011 contest. You can find her Urban Forager column every other Saturday on the New York Times City Room site or by using the links below.Summer
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Summer Wineberries
Staten Island, NY. Love this summer fruit, which I just wrote about for the Urban Forager (“wineberries“). Tart, juicy, and thimble-shaped, wineberries taste like a blood orange infused with a shot of raspberry. Because the temps have been so ferocious … Continue reading
Posted in Summer
Tagged berries, berry, Rubus phoenicolasius, Urban Forager, urban foraging, wild berries, wild food, Wine raspberry, wineberries, wineberry
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Chickweed Still Thriving in Manhattan
New York, NY. Despite the black ice and mounds of unruly snow, spritely chickweed survives on the Upper East Side and throughout the city. The Stellaria media sample in the Times pic was a little bedraggled (I had to kick … Continue reading
Posted in Spring, Winter
Tagged chickweed, foraging, Urban Forager, weed, wild food, Winter
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