Recent content by benjamin.oneill

i found this from a link on rivercottage.net, it is primarily a commercial site but has discussion of legal issues and trapping etc that may be useful to those interested in eating well and doing an environmental service: http://www.crayfish.co.nr/ Ben

ok, cool... seems like we have a little gang together, i'll chase this up and sort out some potential dates. hopefully see you all soon! Ben

first response :( but we'll wait and see and hopefully set a date. also visited a farmer friend who is on the levels in eastborne and has a countryside stewardship award and loads of wildfowl. a stunning spot but not many trees, so i don't know if its very bushcrafty??? Ben

no but they were a packed lunch staple in australia when i was a kid! i picked a load of crab apples and rowan berries today and posted about my mushroom success in snufkins post. the nuts/acords/masts are going great guns too but so are the squirrels! Ben

yeah, you can add more.. going back to the mushrooms though, I went out again today and picked up some chanterelle/girolle and another chicken of the woods! I also saw loads of rotten boletus, which i couldn't identified and were way past it but still had a glimmer of that rich meaty smell...

i would love and kinda need that scope!! sadly i'm stone broke so if its here in a week or two i'll be all over it... Ben

we were talking about it in snufkin's mushroom thread, but i thought i'd start a new one. from what i'd seen around home it was looking pretty good, but... i then went just down the road to robertsbridge to see a friend on his farm (where i'm hopefully going to organise a meet for those...

when i forst looked at it i must admit i didn't think it the prettiest thing, but then i was thinking i could happily sit and whittle for hours with something like that... need you more praise my man? nice knife!!!

that sounds roughly like the recipe for bramble vodka (replacing whiskey for vodka obviously) although I lay off the sugar personally and go for about four or five heaped tablespoons to the bottle. the vodka has little or no flavour of its own so it really brings out the fruit, although whiskey...

was that one of shings baby bushys or a normal one? looks a bit different but big all the same...

here here, a great deal of controversy. however, i would add that grouse moor managment and shooting greatly benefits the grouse and biodiversity (just a bit less when poorly done). The president of the Game Conservancy Trust wrote an interesting article in the telegraph for the 12th which...

Hi all, would anyone be interested in a meet-up in the east sussex/kent area? I know a handful of keepers and farmers and would willingly negotiate a venue with one. One, a good friend of mine in Robertsbridge I'm sure would be particularly amenable. I was thinking maybe towards the...

i always though thistles were like little spiky artichokes, so there is your artichoke heart.

good resource, thank you. mods, you know the calender that was compiled and posted here, could we make it sticky? Ben

i'm just off to the shop to buy some eggs to have with my chicken of the woods. i found a tender little one today. the other day i found a mamouth one, a little too old for an omlette but i'll dry it and add it to a stew when i have the chance. today i also found a lot of earthballs...