Foraging - Natures Food

HariboJunkie

wilding_arms wrote: »

Went out yesterday and came home with 6 sizeable ceps and more chanterelles than we can handle! Also a few stump puffballs and a white oyster mushroom.

The chanterelles have been brilliant for a couple of years now (I'm not a million miles away from you. ). We're going out on Sunday to our usual wood. Really hoping for more boletus this year. Like you I am waiting patiently for the brambles to ripen.

harrys_nan

Hi, would like to join in as I have just started foraging, We are newish to this area so still trying to find places. Did get 3lb blackberries last week and going back for some more soon. Have found a sloe tree and an apple tree possibly crab apples. Plenty of elderberries around, not sure what else there is though.
Does anyone else live in Torbay ?
Harrys nan

Horace

I am going foraging on Sunday afternoon - I am out with a friend and whilst she is mucking out her ponies, I shall be picking blackberries etc. I am hoping to make a pie or something similar - I have some jusrol pasty in the freezer. This will be the first year for a very long time that I have been foraging.

splodger_seedswapper

i was out on a reccy the other day - walking the dogs - and picking a few berries - just to see what was where - and i have noticed that in certain areas - many of the elderberry bushes have died this year - they appeared to survive the winter ok, as i was out looking at the elderflower early in the year - but for some reason many of the bushes have now all but packed up - has anybody else noticed this in their area?

i have found plenty of bushes that have berries ready for picking - but it seems a bit odd that certain pockets - especially on the chalk downs have been totally wiped out

Churchmouse

No chance for any foraging here, it's barely stopped raining But I have used my foraged blackberries. Made DH his favourite, apple and blackberry pie, of course I had to buy the apples, but saved myself well over a pound on the berries which were big and juicy

I've been looking at internet sites and would ask the mushroom experts whether it is at all feasible that the mushrooms I had in my garden were indeed field mushrooms? I live in the town, not near fields, but the only pictures that look like what I had are field mushrooms. They were growing amongst other planting, but for how long I have no idea as they were quite large when I noticed them ( the biggest about 10 cms across) Don't worry, I wouldn't eat them without much more confirmation, just interested if it could be a possibility.

Churchmouse

Thanks wilding_arms Unfortunately I have none to take a picture of now, but should they come again I will definitely do so. At the time I thought they looked delicious, just like big versions of the white mushrooms commonly sold in the supermarket. I would say their stems were all quite short not long looking as in the wicki link. And they were growing in a flower bed, not on lawn. I disposed of them as if they were radioactive, wearing gloves and at arms length :rotfl:

splodger_seedswapper

i picked a bucket of mirabelle (wild yellow plums) today - from our woods - as they are not as juicy as normal plums - and i am going to make wine from them - do you think i should treat them more like an apricot or more like a sloe - when it comes to adapting a recipe to suit them ?

Millie2008_2

am going foraging on Sunday afternoon - I am out with a friend and whilst she is mucking out her ponies, I shall be picking blackberries etc. I am hoping to make a pie or something similar - I have some jusrol pasty in the freezer. This will be the first year for a very long time that I have been foraging

Haha, just did a search for "foraging" and found this thread. We'd better find something now , at least we know there are sloes. We could do with foraging some apples to go with the blackberries...:)

I am going to look for some more blackberry recipes. I think I did clafoitis last year...and a nice cake with a crumble topping

floss2

Murrell wrote: »

Anyone in Preston, Lancs? I am happy to share all my foraging places as I want to pass the information on to someone interested before I move out of Preston in November. I forage in the savick/lea/cottom area.

There is also some council run events this year, helping them harvest fruits and veg (today), apples (october) and having a go at juicing apples on both these days. There is also a mushroom foraging day in October.

Sandra

We're in Blackpool, but happy to travel for foraging - will make a day of it with a long walk!

annie123

splodger_seedswapper wrote: »

i picked a bucket of mirabelle (wild yellow plums) today - from our woods - as they are not as juicy as normal plums - and i am going to make wine from them - do you think i should treat them more like an apricot or more like a sloe - when it comes to adapting a recipe to suit them ?

Ours are all gone by mid July Would to find somewhere where they are still available.

Can't help with wine, mine all go in tarts/pies:)