Walking tour :
Mile End’s Medicinal and Edible Plants
Lana Kim McGeary, herbalist
Mile End Memories** invites you to discover the medicinal and edible plants found in the streets, lanes, vacant lots and gardens of the Mile End neighbourhood. The walking tour will be followed by a special plant-based snack and the distribution of recipes in a local garden.
This walking tour is organized by Janis Zubalik and Sylvie Audouin of Mile End Memories* and David Szanto of Slow Food Montreal (www.slowfoodquebec.com), a not-for-profit eco-gastronomic association founded to stop the erosion of biodiversity and local gastronomic traditions, to support the producer-consumer relationship and to promote taste education.
Date and time: Sunday 2 August 2009, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. and 2-5 p.m. (rain or shine)
Departure: In front of Saint-Enfant-Jésus Church, Saint-Dominique Street between Saint-Joseph Boulevard and Laurier Avenue (bus 55 or 51, or Laurier metro)
Languages: French, with discussion and questions in French and English
Cost: $12/person, including a special snack and recipes
Reservations (OBLIGATORY / BEFORE 31 JULY 2009): dszanto@iceboxstudio.com (Please specify the number of people and the preferred time.)
** Mile End Memories is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the heritage, history and culture of the Mile End neighbourhood. See the summer program.