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Tour the High Line’s Grasslands While Eating Prairie-Inspired Food

By Maya Rajamani | September 2, 2016 2:15pm | Updated on September 6, 2016 8:54am
 The High Line is celebrating its prairie-inspired "Chelsea Grasslands" through the month of September.
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CHELSEA — You can take a tour of a Midwestern landscape without leaving Chelsea.

Through the month of September, the Friends of the High Line will offer free tours, hands-on activities for kids, an educational panel and Facebook Live chats with gardeners as part of its celebration of the Chelsea Grasslands.

The short stretch of the park, between West 18th and West 20th streets, was “inspired by the tallgrass prairie of the American Midwest,” Friends of the High Line said in a release.

Experts will lead free tours of the Grasslands on Sept. 6, Sept. 13 and Sept. 20, highlighting everything from the plants that grow in the Grasslands to the history of the American prairie. A “Make It Wild!” event for kids on Sept. 24 will give them a chance to “explore the wild side of the High Line,” the group’s website says.

Those who can't take the tours will be able to ask the High Line's gardeners questions about the Grasslands during four Facebook Live sessions throughout the month.

The group is also hosting a "Prairie in the City” panel that will give attendees a chance to hear from its horticulture director, a High Line planting designer, the author of “On the High Line: Exploring America's Most Original Urban Park” and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s native flora curator.

High Line vendors, meanwhile, will be serving Grasslands-inspired treats like lemongrass mint lemonade, a sweet corn gelato, strawberry lemongrass pops and a “Prairie Dawn" ice cream sandwich with blueberry muffin cookies and sweet corn ice cream.