Name: Minds On Design Lab Inc.
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This event was part of Reimagine Events

Have we lost an understanding of local ecosystems? Learn re wild food w/forager April Thompson. Forage=Act of searching for + collecting naturally growing food (plants, berries, mushrooms in the wild)

Forager and writer April Thompson has organized foraging tours and wild food workshops for many years. She shares recipes for tasty tidbits from the forest on social media.

Join us to learn more about foraging, a method of obtaining food that is different from farming or hunting. How did April get interested in this ancient practice? What do her foraging tours teach us about local ecosystems? What are some of her recipes for the edible plants harvested on her foraging tours?

April Thompson is a Washington, D.C.-based writer, educator, gardener, naturalist and foodie-forager. Working as a freelance writer for 30 years, she has covered food, travel, sustainability, gardening, foraging and other topics for a variety of publications. April publishes a monthly foraging and travel newsletter called “The Wild Life.”

April has taught workshops on foraging for the USDA National Arboretum, Knowledge Commons DC, Rooting DC, Shop Made in DC, reDelicious and other organizations. She is vice president of the Mycological Association of Washington, a founding member of Bruce Monroe Community Garden, and a DC Master Gardener and Master Naturalist. April has been featured or interviewed in numerous publications and on local media about foraging, including WTOP, WAMU, Washingtonian magazine, Mushroom People Vol II, City Cast DC, Washington Gardener podcast, and DCist. She is currently writing Foraging the Urban Mid-Atlantic for Falcon Guides.

Host: Lily Liu, Family Caregiver

Guest Speaker: April Thompson, Forager and Writer