Not much big flint where I am so may need to substitute. But I'll give it a go.
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Not much big flint where I am so may need to substitute. But I'll give it a go.
I'll have a go @johnboe522 I challenge you too Prepare a wild edible salad :-D....I'm hungry!
Challenge Me!
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Challenge Me!
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Yeah, that's the plan.The main aim is to keep regular challenges for those who want them flowing in
I've been out today and I 'think' I found oyster mushrooms. I've got photos prepared All the time I 'think' though, I'm not prepared to fry them up, lol... One day. Wheb I get the confidence . Someone to challenge shnoop next, let's keep him busy ( nice challenge for JB shnoop )
Took the dog for a walk with the missus round some local woods and had a crack at my challenge.
1) Birch bark, found a fallen Silver Birch.
2) Cramp ball
3) Rosebay Willow-Herb
4) Thistle Down
5) I'd hoped to find a Horses Hoof Fungus or some Clematis vine but no joy today. Made some feather sticks from a bit of beech I had knocking around. Turns out I'm not very good at it.
1) Birch bark, found a fallen Silver Birch.
2) Cramp ball
3) Rosebay Willow-Herb
4) Thistle Down
5) I'd hoped to find a Horses Hoof Fungus or some Clematis vine but no joy today. Made some feather sticks from a bit of beech I had knocking around. Turns out I'm not very good at it
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Nice Work Copper_head . I found quite a few cramp balls on my searches for edible fungi this weekend (I didn't take any thought because I already have some dried out specimens at home)
I've two mushrooms to go. I have seen many mushrooms but I am only certain about three of them being edible. Hopefully in the first half of this week I can find the next two.
(Not got enough confidence to eat them, no courage needed... just more certainty! Some I was 99% sure.... but, there is always that extra 1% to gain (then +10% too!))
Looks like you need someone to come along with a new challenge for you now
I'll hopefully be along in the coming days with photos of my finds
. I found quite a few cramp balls on my searches for edible fungi this weekend (I didn't take any thought because I already have some dried out specimens at home)I've two mushrooms to go. I have seen many mushrooms but I am only certain about three of them being edible. Hopefully in the first half of this week I can find the next two.
(Not got enough confidence to eat them, no courage needed... just more certainty! Some I was 99% sure.... but, there is always that extra 1% to gain (then +10% too!))
Looks like you need someone to come along with a new challenge for you now
I'll hopefully be along in the coming days with photos of my finds
I have just completed my challenge and I am going to post the results in a second
But first of all, Shnoop & copper_head
I've a challenge for you both if you wish to accept it:
Since it's autumn and the berries on the trees are all ripening perhaps a berry picker would be an ideal challenge.
For example, http://www.bushcraft.ridgeonnet.com/making a berry picker.htm
Feel free to devise your own design and use completely different materials, techniques, whatever.
Or if you want something more challenging, just shout and I or someone else can devise something new... but this seems like a 'timely' challenge.
Here are the results of my challenge set by copper_head who challenged me to find 5 edible fungi.... I didn't eat any, not confident enough yet
Please correct me if I am wrong
Mushroom 1 - Oyster Mushrooms
On Fridays 'Foray' I noticed a felled tree in the distance with loads of white fungi growing from it, I believe I found oyster mushrooms from the looks, feel and smell of them.
Mushroom 2 - Parasol Mushroom
On Sundays 'Foray' I found a patch of these, this one being the largest specimen. They had white free-from-the-stem gills and a ring on the stem also with no volva, I believe this there fore is a parasol mushroom
Mushroom 3 - Puffball (albiet, quite eaten)
On Saturday also I found this rather eaten specimen of a puffball. If I were to eat this, I would cut it in half (at least!) to make sure there is no embryo outline of another fungus and that the texture inside was similar in looks to cream cheese. I realise just how handy it would be to have a knife to take out when hunting for mushrooms.
Mushroom 4 - Chicken of the Woods
Today I popped out quickly after work and before tea to see if I can find my final 2 mushrooms and I found chicken of the woods
Mushroom 5 - Beefsteak fungus
Just as I was about to walk off to find my fifth fungus I spotted a glimpse of red out the corner of my eye on the same very old oak tree and I believe what I have found here is a beefsteak fungus. I poked it, naturally, as you do and it was so soft and squidgy like a hunk of raw beef... but again, no knife on this mushroom hunt otherwise I would have expected if I cut out a small chunk it would look akin to a piece of steak.
Looking for my next challenge now
Challenge me!
But first of all, Shnoop & copper_head
I've a challenge for you both if you wish to accept it
:Since it's autumn and the berries on the trees are all ripening perhaps a berry picker would be an ideal challenge.
For example, http://www.bushcraft.ridgeonnet.com/making a berry picker.htm
Feel free to devise your own design and use completely different materials, techniques, whatever.
Or if you want something more challenging, just shout and I or someone else can devise something new... but this seems like a 'timely' challenge.
Here are the results of my challenge set by copper_head who challenged me to find 5 edible fungi.... I didn't eat any, not confident enough yet
Please correct me if I am wrong
Mushroom 1 - Oyster Mushrooms
On Fridays 'Foray' I noticed a felled tree in the distance with loads of white fungi growing from it, I believe I found oyster mushrooms from the looks, feel and smell of them.
Mushroom 2 - Parasol Mushroom
On Sundays 'Foray' I found a patch of these, this one being the largest specimen. They had white free-from-the-stem gills and a ring on the stem also with no volva, I believe this there fore is a parasol mushroom
Mushroom 3 - Puffball (albiet, quite eaten)
On Saturday also I found this rather eaten specimen of a puffball. If I were to eat this, I would cut it in half (at least!) to make sure there is no embryo outline of another fungus and that the texture inside was similar in looks to cream cheese. I realise just how handy it would be to have a knife to take out when hunting for mushrooms.
Mushroom 4 - Chicken of the Woods
Today I popped out quickly after work and before tea to see if I can find my final 2 mushrooms and I found chicken of the woods
Mushroom 5 - Beefsteak fungus
Just as I was about to walk off to find my fifth fungus I spotted a glimpse of red out the corner of my eye on the same very old oak tree and I believe what I have found here is a beefsteak fungus. I poked it, naturally, as you do and it was so soft and squidgy like a hunk of raw beef... but again, no knife on this mushroom hunt otherwise I would have expected if I cut out a small chunk it would look akin to a piece of steak.
Looking for my next challenge now
Challenge me!
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I have just completed my challenge and I am going to post the results in a second
But first of all, Shnoop & copper_head
I've a challenge for you both if you wish to accept it
Since it's autumn and the berries on the trees are all ripening perhaps a berry picker would be an ideal challenge.
For example, http://www.bushcraft.ridgeonnet.com/making a berry picker.htm
Feel free to devise your own design and use completely different materials, techniques, whatever.
Or if you want something more challenging, just shout and I or someone else can devise something new... but this seems like a 'timely' challenge.
Here are the results of my challenge set by copper_head who challenged me to find 5 edible fungi.... I didn't eat any, not confident enough yet
Please correct me if I am wrong
Mushroom 1 - Oyster Mushrooms
On Fridays 'Foray' I noticed a felled tree in the distance with loads of white fungi growing from it, I believe I found oyster mushrooms from the looks, feel and smell of them.
Mushroom 2 - Parasol Mushroom
On Sundays 'Foray' I found a patch of these, this one being the largest specimen. They had white free-from-the-stem gills and a ring on the stem also with no volva, I believe this there fore is a parasol mushroom
Mushroom 3 - Puffball (albiet, quite eaten)
On Saturday also I found this rather eaten specimen of a puffball. If I were to eat this, I would cut it in half (at least!) to make sure there is no embryo outline of another fungus and that the texture inside was similar in looks to cream cheese. I realise just how handy it would be to have a knife to take out when hunting for mushrooms.
Mushroom 4 - Chicken of the Woods
Today I popped out quickly after work and before tea to see if I can find my final 2 mushrooms and I found chicken of the woods
Mushroom 5 - Beefsteak fungus
Just as I was about to walk off to find my fifth fungus I spotted a glimpse of red out the corner of my eye on the same very old oak tree and I believe what I have found here is a beefsteak fungus. I poked it, naturally, as you do and it was so soft and squidgy like a hunk of raw beef... but again, no knife on this mushroom hunt otherwise I would have expected if I cut out a small chunk it would look akin to a piece of steak.
Looking for my next challenge now
Challenge me!
Nice one emdiesse! I'm up for another challenge, although I ain't got the tools for the berry picker....
But challenge me
Alrighty then..I challenge you to, using just a single tool (plus a cooking container), to start a fire by friction, make a cooking implement to eat/cook with, and to cook a meal using only foraged ingredients..is that a bit too much?
I accept your challenge Emdiesse! Won't get out till weekend though!! And well done on your mushroom challenge! I think I would have struggled with that one! Not a big mushroom lover lol
@Emdiesse I challenge you too sterilise 1 pint'ish of water.. Going out with just your knife and using whatever u can find hehe
@Emdiesse I challenge you too sterilise 1 pint'ish of water.. Going out with just your knife and using whatever u can find
hehe
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I accept your challenge Emdiesse! Won't get out till weekend though!! And well done on your mushroom challenge! I think I would have struggled with that one! Not a big mushroom lover lol
@Emdiesse I challenge you too sterilise 1 pint'ish of water.. Going out with just your knife and using whatever u can find
Challenge Accepted Mate, I'm excited
I've just realised the terms do not include a pot, with just a knife I can imagine it'll be VERY difficult.
I'm going to give it a good go though, at least right up until I have my shoulder surgery (doh!)
I'm going to give it a good go though, at least right up until I have my shoulder surgery (doh!)
Crikey that's a hard one! But yes I accept
Haha well it's meant to be a challenge eh?
Have fun
Ok due to work I am not going to be able to do the salad challenge as I am inner city bound, so if you want to challenge me something else feel free, if not i will get on it next week when I get back to the country side!,
I challenge thee, Munkiboi182, to ignore thine tinder bundle with the rays of the holy sun. Does thou acceptest my thy challenge, or be you a knave and shirk from ye honour bound duty?!
I complete forgot about this. My apologies.
good sir I accept your challenge and have made it harder for myself now that the sun has hidden itself for the next six months
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