Foraging on the Haunted Trail and Pumpkin Painting
Saturday, October 25th 2025
10a - 1p
George Washington Carver Trail @ Anacostia Community Museum
1901 Fort Place SE
Washington, DC 20020
Join Soul Trak to learn about foraging as we hike along the haunted George Washington Carver Trail in Southeast DC. Located adjacent to the Anacostia Community Museum, this easy .5 mile loop is a great hike for beginner hikers. This section of forest showcases the beauty and diversity of some of DC's greatest green spaces right here in Ward 8.
Come dressed in your Halloween costumes to go trick-or-treating by foraging through the haunted forest! Enter your costume to win a prize in the costume contest.
10a - Everyone arrives in costume! We will do a circle for Soul Trak Introductions
10:15 - 11:15 - Foraging Hike with Candise Jordan of Farm Forage Feast
Trick or Treating along the Haunted Trail
11:15 - Costume Contest Winners Crowned!
11:30 - Mini Pumpkin Painting
1:00 - Close out
There is also a farmer's market open at the museum plaza from 10a-2p. We also encourage families to check out the museum after the hike.
Register now, and please indicate how many will be in your party so we can plan accordingly.
About Farm Forage Feast:
We are a small, black woman owned Educational Farm and Foraging Company on a mission to heal our planet and our bodies through food.
We strive to make foraging and growing food fun, simple and accessible to all.
Whether you are a beginner gardener or skilled grower, live in the city or the country, have an apartment or house, full sun or shade, big budget or small, we can help you reduce your carbon footprint and transform your health with food.
Candise Jordan is a Health & Fitness Coach, Urban Farmer, Certified Permaculture Designer, and Forager. She became a fitness professional straight out of college but quickly realized that you can't out exercise a bad diet. She then decided to take her nutrition studies beyond the 1-2 chapters from her fitness certifications and began her studies as a Nutrition Counselor. Once she learned how to read food labels she discovered that most of the health foods & supplements on the market weren't quite so healthy after all. That's when she made up her mind to learn to grow her own food. She started her first garden in 2018 and began volunteering at local farms. In an effort to learn the most sustainable way to grow food, she got her Permaculture Design Certification through Forested in Bowie, MD and completed her Beginner Farmer Training program through Future Harvest. During her studies she began working on 3 organic vegetable farms and later began working as a Garden Steward with Forested where she received her Permaculture Certification. Permaculture exposed her to foods that she had never heard of before and had her nibbling on what she only knew then as weeds. After learning about all of these delicious and nutritious free foods, she began foraging and now she teaches others all about the wonderful wild edibles growing around us.
About the trail:
George Washington Carver (1864 –1943), was an African-American scientist, naturalist and professor who served as chairman of the Agriculture Department of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. He was an early promoter of cover crops and organic fertilizers, and promoted crops, like peanuts and sweet potatoes, that could provide affordable nutrition and restore soil depleted by decades of cotton growing. Carver was also an avid naturalist who constantly observed and recorded the natural world around him. The trail, created in the 1990s as a project of the Anacostia Community Museum, honors Dr. Carver’s legacy of reverence for nature and humans’ reliance upon it.
Source: Ward 8 Woods