"Wildman" Steve Brill

American naturalist Steven Brill (disambiguation)Steven Brill Steve Brill 1949 03 10 New York City, New York New York City park forager Naturalist, environmental educator, author Wildman http://www.wildmanstevebrill.com/ Steve "Wildman" Brill (born March 10, 1949)https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Hunt-for-daylily-shoots-in-Tarrywile-Park-3387150.php Hunt for daylily shoots in Tarrywile Park 7 March 2012 is an American forager, naturalist, environmental educator and author. He gained notoriety in 1986, when he was arrested in New York City's Central Park for eating a dandelion. Early life and career Brill was born to a Jewish family and identifies as culturally Jewish. His grandmother taught him cooking when he was a child. His family often went berry picking and foraging.https://forward.com/news/14776/wild-at-heart-eating-the-park-03020/?amp=1 Wild at Heart: Eating the Park 25 December 2008 Brill was a pre-med student at George Washington University. He later changed his major to psychology, but learned botany, foraging, and gourmet vegan cooking on his own, after college.Clark Kenneth September 23, 1985 Wild Man Chicago Tribune Career Brill has been taking people on nature walks in New York's Central Park, and parks throughout the Greater NY area, since 1982. Brill says his tours had the approval of the parks department until they began refusing to issue him a weed-picking permit in 1983. He gained notoriety in 1986 when he was arrested by two undercover park rangers and charged with criminal mischief after allegedly eating a dandelion he had picked in New York's Central Park.Harney James Don't Eat The Dandelions, Arrested Ecologist Ordered http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1986-04-03/news/8601200363_1_dandelions-central-park-rangers 26 October 2011 South Florida Sun-Sentinel 3 April 1986 26 February 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20130226010355/http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1986-04-03/news/8601200363_1_dandelions-central-park-rangers dead Brill was released with a "desk-appearance ticket" pending trial.Brill Steve Wild Foods and the Environment http://www.rawfoodsnewsmagazine.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=28 Raw Foods News Magazine 26 October 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20070626063316/http://www.rawfoodsnewsmagazine.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=28 26 June 2007 According to Brill, the New York City Parks Department "dropped the charges and hired me to lead the same tours I was busted for" until a change in park administration in 1990.Kharakh Ben August 13, 2007 http://gothamist.com/2007/08/13/the_wildman_ste.php The Wildman: Steve Brill, Naturalist https://web.archive.org/web/20120515213743/http://gothamist.com/2007/08/13/the_wildman_ste.php 2012-05-15 Gothamist March 26, 2012 In 1994, Brill published his book: Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants in Wild (and Not So Wild) Places which explains how to identify and forage for edible or medicinal plants.Steve Brill, Evelyn Dean Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants in Wild (and Not So Wild) Places 1994 New York Hearst Books http://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_all&q=Steve+Brill March 26, 2012 In 2001, Brill published The Wild Vegetarian Cookbook: A Forager's Culinary Guide; a 500 recipe wild and natural foods cookbook.Brill Steve The Wild Vegetarian Cookbook 2002 Boston, Massachusetts Harvard Common Press http://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_all&q=Steve+Brill March 26, 2012 In 2008, he released his self-published "Shoots and Greens of Early Spring in Northeastern North America, and in 2014, he released his self-published "Foraging with Kids." In 2011, Brill released an iPhone app called Wild Edibles Forage with Winterroot, which gives information on "250 common North American plants".Miller Jenny April 8, 2011 http://newyork.grubstreet.com/2011/04/a_wild_new_app_for_foragers.html Plants App Hits iPhones Grubb Street New York March 26, 2012 They also created an Android version. Both applications feature Brill's edible plant photos, his botanical illustrations, and hundreds of his vegan whole-foods recipes.Driver Blake October 31, 2011 http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2097391,00.html Pick Pockets Time 178 17 July 21, 2021 October 26, 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20111026030200/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2097391,00.html dead Brill is reported to be the foremost foraging expert in the Northeast and works with nature centers, schools, day camps, libraries, parks departments, land trusts, nature centers, museums, health food stores, farmer's markets, teaching farms, and other organizations, to educate the public on foraging in the Northeastern US. Many of his tours are co-led by his foraging expert daughter, Violet Brill (born 2004).Mathew Kirsten 2012 http://www.nypost.com/p/lifestyle/food/the_man_who_ate_new_york_wildman_DEWLVkIaYMrfQMWR6xl7mL The Man Who Ate New York: Wildman Steve Brill New York Post March 26, 2012 Steve Brill is also an artist who creates sculptures and paintings of plants which can be seen in his app and books.Tuohy Laurel 2016 https://www.vice.com/en/article/eating-wild-weeds-with-wildman-steve-brill-forager-and-punk-naturalist/ Eating Wild Weeds with 'Wildman' Steve Brill, Forager and Punk Naturalist Vice References 2 External links Official web site Fox News video CNN video New York Times review of Brill's park tour New York magazine article Interview with the Gothamist Category:Living people Category:American naturalists Category:American vegetarian cookbook writers Category:1949 births Category:American Jews