Foraging for Fools! A Guide to (and for) Eating Invaders

Alternatively Titled: Glengarry Glen Foerd (despite having very little to do with the movie Glengarry Glen Ross with Alec Baldwin about cutthroat real estate agents except for the ways in which this practice is an extended consideration of the devious machinations behind who has access to the land-- and how to subvert them)

In this foraging weed walk & wonky workshop with local clown and hobbyist forager Alex Tatarsky (aka Apocalypse Housewife), we will learn to identify and devour several delicious, edible, and so-called invasive species growing on the grounds of Glen Foerd, which may include dandelion, chickweed, garlic mustard, field garlic, lemon clover, lambs quarters, mugwort, and Japanese knotweed. Gathering in spring after a long, hard winter, we will think about how rot, decay, and periods of rest and pause might lay the ground for delicious sustenance! We will try to re-think our relationships to so-called “invasive species” (including us!). This will be an experiment--part performance, part lesson, part participatory feast.

The foraged feast will include:

Mugwort crackers with Garlic mustard pesto & Field garlic cheese

Dandelion pies

Knotweed Crumble

Wisteria syrup & seltzer

Cleavers infusion

All are very welcome!

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Alex Tatarsky makes performances in the uncomfortable in-between zone of comedy, performance art, dance-theater, and deluded rant, sometimes with songs. A graduate of the Pig Iron School and a frequent collaborator with Philly’s beloved Pig Iron Theatre Co., their work has been presented by FringeArts, Vox Populi, Space 1026, Little Berlin and most recently took the form of a durational sad clown show in an empty storefront on Chestnut Street. While performing causes Tatarsky extreme stage fright, self-doubt, panic, and existential angst, foraging and composting bring them only joy, calm, and delight.

@tartar.biz / @apocalypsehousewife

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*By registering and participating in this workshop, participants acknowledge that the consumption of wild food carries with it some inherent risks. All participants will be required to fill out a waiver upon arrival at Glen Foerd, acknowledging that the organization, its contractors, employees, agents, and leaders, will not be held liable in the event that a reaction occurs.