Foraging - Natures Food

Murrell

floss2 wrote: »

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

Sorry I didn't get back to you floss2. A few things changed in my life and I won't get chance for any foraging this year. Luckily there was only you that replied.

D&DD

I've just had a tot of sloe gin whilst walking the dog :rotfl:so I'm now going to make some it was lovely!!

Question is rougly (in a 2 litre icecream carton) how many will I need?
Recipe says I'll need a pound just didn't want to pick more than needed.
Many thanks
D

brenda50

Hi foragers!

I have a dehydrator which I am using to preserve things for medicinal use as well as for cooking.

I am busy drying elderberries to have in my musesli over winter - good for the immune system. I am also drying hawthorn berries - good for the heart and have just started to take it for my own heart symptoms and wow what a difference straight away. My flouid retention si decreasing too.

I am drying rose hips and so hope to be able to stop buying vit C. I could make syrup but I dont want the sugar.

vennypenny

Hi Brenda50 - how do you use the rosehips after they are dried (and do you have to clean out the insides before you dry them?)
thanks

oldtractor

anyone make cider from windfall apples? I'd love a recipe.

brenda50

Yes you clean the seeds out. You can make rosehip tea, grind the dried skins and put it in capsules or just have it with muesli.

annie-c

I've just been out and picked my very first sloes!

It was quite an adventure.... I had been told that they were to be found on a particularly long country road nearby, but I didn't know exactly where, and wasn't sure exactly what they look like, so I crawled along the narrow, winding road at around 10mph, annoying the hell out of other travellers when I kept pulling in to let them pass me.

Eventually, I saw some that resembled the Google images I had found, and conveniently there was a little place to pull in nearby. It looked like others had been there before me and stripped the lower branches bare, so I only picked a pound or so this time - I plan to borrow my dad's walking stick and pop back on the weekend to get the tantalisingly plump-looking ones on the higher branches.

It was amazing that I couldn't see any at all for quite a long drive on the way there, but as I walked back to the car, and then on the way home, I could suddenly see them popping up everywhere along the roadside. They don't quite match the images I found on Google because the bottom halves of nearly all the bushes are stripped bare of berries, while the top branches are heaving!

splodger_seedswapper

hi foragers - just to let you know that after the warm spell of weather - our chestnuts have fattened up nicely - so this year will be ok for a decent enough crop afterall :j and the offer still stands - for anybody who is not too far away from romsey, hampshire - to come and collect chestnuts from our little copse - just pm me for more details

happy foraging :beer:

annie-c

That's a kind offer- wish I lived nearby!

I went out for a drive to look for more sloes today and found a bumper crop along the mountain lanes. I picked 3lbs and there were hundreds of pounds left over, many of the hedgerow fruits are starting to shrivel up and fall to the ground now. I'm glad I didn't wait til the first frost, it would all have been spoiled if I had!

Pazu

Hi all
Splodger thats a kind invite. I would love to meet a fellow forager, look round your garden and learn about home made wine. Unfortunately I don't live quite close enough.

Not much foraging going on here as every spare minute is taken up with visiting my mother in hospital. I still hope to get a few sloes, chestnuts and walnuts, some comfrey for the compost heap, leaf mould and a few pine cones to light the fire. Oh and pea and bean sticks.

see you all next spring.