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Discover dandelion pizza and other uses for native plants at this workshop

At a workshop is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 11, at the Ecology Center of Linwood Nature Preserve, Ila Hatter will teach people how to use native wild plants for medicine and food. She has a special recipe for poison ivy relief and will even offer elderflower fritters as a snack. Hatter will give away her secrets on dandelions, too. - photo by Layne Saliba

06072019 REDBUD 1.jpg — At a workshop is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 11, at the Ecology Center of Linwood Nature Preserve, Ila Hatter will teach people how to use native wild plants for medicine and food. She has a special recipe for poison ivy relief and will even offer elderflower fritters as a snack. Hatter will give away her secrets on dandelions, too. - photo by Layne Saliba

For Ila Hatter’s parents, finding plants in the forest, woods or their backyard was simply a matter of survival. They used the plants they found for cooking and medicinal purposes as they lived through two World Wars and the Great Depression.