Harvesting and Pickling and Fruit Poems

When:
Saturday, Aug 26, 2023 1:00p -
4:00p

Where:
Boston Nature Center
500 Walk Hill St
Mattapan, Massachusetts 02126

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Admission:
$13.00-15.00

Hosted by:
joyraft.host61602 Antonia Pagnozzi

Categories:
Food, Nature, Outside

Event website:
https://www.massaudubon.org/program-catalog/boston-nature-center/88652-harvesting-and-pickling-and-fruit-poems

Join us for a two part hybrid program at the BNC. The first 1.5 hours will focus on the a lesson on harvesting and pickling, and the last 1.5 hours will consist of a fruit poem workshop.

We will harvest some mid season veggies from the Clark - Cooper Community Garden and learn a new culinary skill. Participants will pick their own vegetables and leave the program with their own pickled creation.

While our veggies begin pickling, we will engage our creative side with a fruit poem writing worshop. Salvation burnette, writing professor at Emerson College will lead us in a generative writing workshop about fruit poems.

Fruit, like us, comes in all kinds of shapes, sizes, colors, textures. It's beautiful to look at, uplifting to smell, fun to squeeze and squish and slice. It can be tart, sweet, juicy, creamy, watery, soft, firm, spiky, furry, smooth. In many cases it nourishes us (as well as other creatures like birds, insects, and rodents), and in some cases it can be poisonous to us.

Writers often use fruit as symbols. Joy, vitality, decay, mortality. What's more invigorating than a jaunty ripe lemon cut into perfect rounds? What's more disgusting than that sloppy moldy cucumber you forgot about in the back of your fridge? Just like us, they're full of life, and then they're not.

In this workshop, we'll read a couple of fruit-themed poems. We'll search for and observe wild fruit on a trail walk (approx. 1 mile) that incorporates observation activities. Participants will have time to relax in nature and write our own poems inspired by fruit based on themed prompts. Then we'll have the chance to share our experiences and/or writing at the end.

This workshop is open to writers of any experience level!

PLEASE NOTE:

This program is free if you are a member of Dot Rx. Please email [email protected] to register.

Mass Audubon's refund policy:

Withdrawal 7 days or more before program is a full refund.

Withdrawal 72 hours and up to 7 days before program is a full credit.

Withdrawal less than 72 hours before program is a forfeiture of registration fee.

Registration is required. Register here: Harvesting and Pickling and Fruit Poems (massaudubon.org)


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