Walking tour :
Mile End’s Medicinal and Edible Plants
Lana Kim McGeary, herbalist
Mile End Memories* and Slow Food Montreal** invite you to discover the medicinal and edible plants found in the streets, lanes, vacant lots and gardens of the Mile End neighbourhood.
Date and time: Sunday 9 August 2009, 11 a.m.-1 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
Reservations: No reservations required.
This walking tour is organized by Janis Zubalik and Sylvie Audouin of Mile End Memories* and David Szanto of Slow Food Montreal**.
* Mile End Memories (www.mile-end.qc.ca) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the heritage, history and culture of the Mile End neighbourhood. See the summer program.
** Slow Food Montréal (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.