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  1. troy ap De skog

    Whats this plant?

    looks like a seedling of chickweed willow-herb (Epilobium Alsinifolium) But a more detailed picture would allow m,e to give you a definite answer.
  2. troy ap De skog

    "OH LOOK ORCHID!" and then came the bulldozer

    well its seems reminding the council its election year got them to contact me... and i am deliving all my data on the flora (more than 90 different species)of the site along with evidence of there being adders on the site (photos and my medical record as dating evidence) the council have the EA...
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    "OH LOOK ORCHID!" and then came the bulldozer

    well the responce i got the the EA was go to your local wildlife trust and when i said i work very closely with them on a regular baises they said the were unable to help me.. so ill try phoning them agian tomrrow and hope i get to talk to a useful chappy/chapette who understand the langue...
  4. troy ap De skog

    Tree sap what trees and you use it for

    well i use birch for vodka and cough mixure sycomore of cough mixture maple for syrup and mead yew as rat poison and im going to see if i can harvist sap from elm, beech and alder this year, and if i do ill try find a use for it.
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    "OH LOOK ORCHID!" and then came the bulldozer

    Hi guys... well im totaly infuriated and have been exstreamly busy the last week becouse; The place were you can always find me got bulldozed with out warning.. (http://harefield.uxbridgegazette.co.uk/local-authority/) over the summer i carried out an intesive survey of the flora of this...
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    Whats on the foragers menu this winter?

    warm here to, around +5 but very draege. roots aint been too hard for me only the first inch is frozen hard. im lucky being on top of the hill faceing out over the thames flood plane& te other side the Colne valley and chilterns, as all the cold air sits down bottom and the winds usealy...
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    Whats on the foragers menu this winter?

    Toddy; not too cold down hear, only got to -5 in the shed last night. but yea all the fruit is leathered. suppose it helps that in my main foraging area there's loads of sheltered patches around fallen trees and hedges.
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    Whats on the foragers menu this winter?

    Well there's plenty out there, but then i know where a lot of stuff is under the snow. but i've had a small haul, of rose hips, plantain, thistle, juniper berries, some dodgy crap apples and quinces, nettles, alpine bitter-cress, blaeberries, handful of frozzen haws and sloes, wintergreens, few...
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    Why not try...

    well when 'm using acorns i usually; roast them over a fire, grind them up, the boil in 3- 5 changes of water and dry out on a backing tray till its like a lumpy flour, and mix with honey and warm them over a fire or in the oven Gas mark 5ish for 5-10 min.
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    Frozen UK satellite pic

    well thats going to screw up the european white fish (Cod, Haddock ect.) stocks then.. no warm water to brind baitfish and plankton. ... but back to the waether its nice to have real seasons for a change. i mean we had a hot summer, a fruit fall autumn and now a white winter, then stilll i...
  11. troy ap De skog

    If I had a Million pounds

    i'de buy a load of islands off Scotland invite a select few to come to inhabit them and claim independence, in order to create my island culture that uses traditional skills and live out my days in a croft ... so you'de be unlikely not hear from me after the country is i'de as i most likely...
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    Why not try...

    well im sorry i haven't been on much lately, but ive been fattning up for winter... on a huge range of stuff from the wild and a few bits from the allotment.. so i guess you want to know whats been on the menue: large amounts of fish: mainly Pike, Perch, Chub and Rudd/Roach. (Perch being...
  13. troy ap De skog

    sweet chesnuts

    wow this years crop was huge, just got back from the woods, with over half a 55l rucksack full.. so i know what im having every sunday till yule. mind you my collection method is great fun, sit wach the squirills see were they're opening the husks and were the burring them, then walk towards...
  14. troy ap De skog

    Plant ident help please

    1 pink sorrel(taisty-slightly milder favour than commen wood sorrel though) 2 Nipplrwort,smooth hawk'sbeard or Yellow-wort- (all have tham properties, so dosent matter which one it is) 3 goosegrass/ cleavers......(only over thing vaegly looks like cleavers is funugreek and it is defeinetly...
  15. troy ap De skog

    Plant ident help please

    1 pink sorrel(taisty-slightly milder favour than commen wood sorrel though) 2 Nipplrwort,smooth hawk'sbeard or Yellow-wort- (all have tham properties, so dosent matter which one it is) 3 goosegrass/ cleavers......(only over thing vaegly looks like cleavers is funugreek and it is defeinetly...
  16. troy ap De skog

    Glistning Ink caps

    yea my sweedish book says taistes rubbish.. but ill give them ago next time they come up.. so in a few weeks and ill let you know how they went
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    Glistning Ink caps

    Coprinellus micaceus, sorry dont have a pic as i dont own a camera
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    Glistning Ink caps

    i have loads of them all over my garden all year round, now im pretty sure their not poisonus, but dose anyone know if the're worth eating....
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    lots of rowan berries this year

    ide say over all the fruit have been made this year, we been inundated in rowens and elderberries... but i dont think i have seen a tree so laiden in fruit as that one though.
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    ultimate natureal tinder...

    couple of weeks ago, i diesided to drie out a carrier bag of thistel down in a billy over the fire.... then "woops" loads of smoke came from the billy, so burred it in sand... any ways all the down left in the billy was heavly chard, and will take the tinyist of sparks from my trad flint...