Join POP and UPenn for a very special *FREE* hands-on offering of POPHarvestED: Elderberry Syrup Making, sponsored by Penn Park Orchard! POP Education Director Alyssa Schimmel and Penn Park Orchard Intern Olivia Bridges will discuss the growing of, myth surrounding, and the culinary and medicinal uses of elderberry along with its formulatory conspirators: ginger, cinnamon, cloves (along with their local wild analogues).  Attendees will leave with their very own bottle of the immune-boosting syrup! 

POPHarvestED brings together community teachers to lead food, medicine, and craft workshops on underknown plants of POP orchards and our regional ecosystem. 

About our Facilitators: 

POP Education Director Alyssa Schimmel lead's POP's School Orchard Program and is a co-teacher of a year-long course in wild foods and medicines with Wild Foodies' Lynn Landes and program director Heather Zimmerman at Awbury Arboretum called Wild Wisdom. A grower, medicine-maker, beekeeper, and community herbalist, she is passionate about connecting community to sources of sustenance in our bio-region. 

Olivia Bridges is the Penn Park Orchard outreach intern for 2019. She grew up in Highland Park, NJ and is currently studying public health and anthropology at Penn. In her free time, she loves to knit and try recipes for paleo baked goods.