Join Eric Fuselier to learn about the native edible and medicinal plants found growing in the Ozarks.
You’ll learn which parts of these plants are edible or medicinal, as well as tips for how to harvest and prepare them. This presentation will focus on species that can easily be grown in a garden setting.
About Eric Fuselier
From a young age, Eric Fuselier enjoyed foraging edible plants from the wild with his parents. As an adult, Eric continued to study wild edible plants while spending extended lengths of time in the Ozark wilderness as an avid hiker and backpacker. In 2015, he founded Ozark Primitive Skills in order to help others reconnect with the natural world. For Eric, teaching people how to harvest their food directly from the wild is just one way to facilitate this reconnection. Eric has taught classes and workshops on foraging wild edible and medicinal plants for the Ozark Natural Science Center, Apple Seeds Teaching Farm, the Botanical Garden of the Ozarks, as well as to a group of medical school students at the New York Institute of Technology’s School of Osteopathic Medicine at ASU in Jonesboro.
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