Organic, healthy, delicious food — that grows on the side of the road
Nadia Foster, who calls herself Nadia BlackMajesTEA (middle), leads a group on a foraging tour during her class Hobby Kick-Start: Foraging for Tea at the Dixon Gallery and Gardens on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
In August, about a dozen people went to a class at the Dixon Gallery & Gardens to learn about wild plants that can be used to make tea.
Such as the yaupon holly, which can be found near the Dixon’s parking lot. Or a variety of herbs, found within the gardens, and which the students had permission to pick.
Ingredients in hand, the group returned to a classroom to learn how to roast the leaves in a skillet and then brew them, along with their herbs.
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Nick Lingerfelt
Nick Lingerfelt has written for Focus Mid-South Magazine, StyleBlueprint, Salon and At Home Memphis & Mid South. When he was a student at the University of Memphis, he was editor-in-chief of The Daily Helmsman, the school’s student newspaper.
Also while a student at the U of M, he received the Otis Sanford Outstanding Journalism Student award and the 2nd Place Marc Perrusquia Investigative Journalism Award for a story about the demographic makeup of the school’s sports teams.
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