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Key Points about this Tour: 2.75 hours Ticket price is per person. Minimum purchase of 2 tickets required for this tour. Private elegant tables assigned to each booking. Each features cushioned section, a large exterior window and plexiglass dividers. Offered aboard Manhattan or Manhattan II (1920s inspired yachts) Capacity limitations will...

Central Park provides a great window into the world of wild foods of mid-spring. It's the peak of the season for wild salad greens, and we'll be finding great quantities of renewable ingredients: Spicy mustard greens, such as garlicky garlic mustard, hot hedge mustard, and even hotter poor man's pepper, will abound on lawns or under trees anywhere,...

A great abundance of edible and medicinal wild plants and mushrooms makes this park a great place for edible and medicinal plants and mushrooms in late summer. Burdock, an expensive detoxifying herb sold in health food stores, abounds in cultivated areas throughout the park. You can also use this invasive species as a superb root vegetable, or even...

Key points about this tour: 1.5 hours Ticket price is per person. Minimum purchase of 2 tickets required for this tour. See all major lower Manhattan sites! Private elegant tables assigned per booking - each protected by Plexiglass dividers, cushioned seating and openable windows. Offered aboard Manhattan or Manhattan II (1920s inspired yachts)...

Key points about this tour: 2.75 Hours Long Ticket price is per person. Minimum purchase of 2 tickets required for this tour. Private elegant tables assigned per booking - each protected by Plexiglass dividers, cushioned seating and openable windows. Our brunch is a three-course prix fixe menu served at your private table. Offered aboard Manhattan...

Key points about this tour: 1.5 hours Ticket price is per person. Minimum purchase of 2 tickets required for this tour. Assigned Private Tables for each booking featuring cushioned seating, plexiglass dividers and openable windows. See all major lower Manhattan sites at Sunset! (One World Trade Center, Financial District, Statue of Liberty,...

Inwood Hill Park is one of the best places for foragers in late winter. The city's hilliest park, with a large, mature forest, meadows, thickets, and cultivated areas, it's loaded with wild plants. Now is the time for roots. Burdock, an expensive detoxifying herb sold in health food stores, as well as an invasive foreign species, abounds in human-disturbed...

Key points about this tour: 1.25 hours Ticket price is per person. Minimum purchase of 2 tickets required for this tour. See all major lower Manhattan lit up at night! Offered aboard Manhattan or Manhattan II (1920s inspired yachts) No narration of the sights. This is a relaxing, sightseeing affair. One complimentary beer, wine, Champagne...

Central Park provides a great window into the world of wild foods in  early spring. Making a meal with these plants is simple at this time of the year. For an appetizer, try simmering field garlic bulbs in diluted vinegar with Italian seasonings, to make an outstanding pickle. It's the peak of the season for wild salad greens, and we'll be finding...

Prospect Park provides such a superabundance of wild foods in mid-spring, it's hard to cover them all in just four hours. We begin with spicy hedge mustard, corn-flavored chickweed, and spinach-flavored lamb's quarters, all growing near the park's Grand Army Plaza entrance. Then we move along to goutweed, taking over along the path near the Vale...

Inwood Hill Park is one of the best places for foraging in late fall. The city's hilliest park, with a large, mature forest, meadows, thickets, and cultivated areas, it's loaded with wild plants, even in late fall. This is the time to search for roots. Here are some we'll be finding: Burdock, an invasive, Eurasian, expensive, detoxifying herb sold...

Roll up your sleeves and dive into mixed media expression, discover non-traditional media and found object art to make cool textured pieces with depth and individuality!  We will work with recycled materials; magazines, colored papers, newspapers, recycled machine parts, string, fabric, threads etc and add paint, pastels, charcoal and printed...

Capture on canvas dynamic portraits of the people you love or people who inspire you in this awesome class. Learn how to depict realistic facial features, body language and explore how to manipulate your subjects to highlight unique characteristics and add your own style.  Painting people can seem more complex but in this beginners course we...

Florists and floral designers who want long-lasting, gorgeous interior plantings won't want to miss this unique class from florist, horticulturist, and indoor plant expert Chris Raimondi. In this class, Chris shares essential horticulture practices for proper selection and maintenance of plants used in atria,corporate offices, and for special events....

Learn how a century of culinary evolution resulted in a broad spectrum of pizza styles as you taste your way through pizza history, science, culture, and flavor. See century-old brick ovens and classic slice joints that will fill both belly and mind. You will visit 3 amazing NYC pizzerias, each of which exhibits its own unique take on the world's...