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you guys are hardcore, using your hard earned free time to fight an epic battle...!

I'm wondering what someone would think about if they were thinking about eating this thistle? http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/425006104 The stem was very fibrous

Hi everyone, I was wondering about the procedure of making flour from Deschampsia cespitosa because I read about the fact that it is possible today in ray mears wild food book. Would the procedure be the same as with wheat or is there an extra husk on the outside? I was wondering whether the...

Where's a good place to look for hibernating snails? Do they prefer dry places?

Ok the sea fishing books do interest me a lot but I live as far from the sea as you can get in Britain which really is a shame. I will have to compare the rivercottage Hedgerow book to the foragers handbook and see which one is the winner! (and then probably end up buying both :D) Thanks...

Thanks Cyclingrelf, I never knew Roger Phillips did plants as well as fungi! If 'Roger Phillips' is actually just one man then he has had an impressively productive life if he's producing all these books on different subjects (I've just seen his one on wildflowers and his book on trees...

Thanks Andrew, Geoff and Stu for this suggestion... I'll remember this book for later when I feel I can spend money again (I impulse bought the Ray Mears book as soon as the first replies were posted! I'm sure this book will be good too though going by the other posts in this thread!)...

Ah brilliant! Thanks, that does look like a good book Oh yeah that's another thing I already have (the 'food for free' pocket gem guide), perhaps I'll have a look at the larger versions! I'm currently browsing through and making notes on a list I printed off of about 350 edible fungi...

Hello everone, I'm looking for a nice thick book on the subject of collecting and hunting wild food and identifying animals, plants and fungi for consumption! Does anyone have any suggestions about good books on this subject?! I've got an SAS pocket survival guide and a few books on...

wow! those look awesome. inpirational

Excellent; I didn't know this, thanks Geoff

It can be confused with Chlorophyllum rhacodes (Shaggy Parasol) which is poisonous to some people even after cooking. The fact that the stipe on fruitbody in the photo has been scratched away and is still white (as opposed to staining red then brown) means that it is not a Shaggy Parasol. Jack

Thanks Mesquite, useful to know.

That link is interesting; I've saved it and might try at the weekend! It seems a bit counter productive using two sheets of blotting paper for every sheet of fungi paper! I guess the blotting paper isn't completely necessary?

Hello, Does anyone know when to 're-soak' the nettle fibres if you are wanting to make the cordage more durable. In Ray Mears book it says to dry and re-soak the fibres, should you resoak them just before rolling the cordage? Is it so the fibres are more supple when you are rolling them...

From your first post 1. Looks like an earthball (poisonous) of some sort due to the tiny 'craters' on the skin although I could be looking at the photo wrong! 2. Is probably Sulphur Tuft (poisonous) but maybe they could be Brick Caps (which occur in tufts of fewer fruitbodies) 5. An Amanita (I...