What did you forage today?
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Hawthorn berries and wild carrot seeds. The seeds I will dry. Has anyone got an ideas for the berries? I normally just eat them
I wanted to give this a try some time: https://www.wildfooduk.com/wild-food-recipes/hawthorn-ketchup/
Chris I have to say that recipe looks amazing. Sadly I am off the sugar so I will have to pass. x
Mines been a bit of an odd one.
Tree on a bit of waste ground by where I walk the dog has loads of apples this year. Never even noticed the tree from the rest before.
Tasted em a while ago and found them to be very hard and lacking flavour.
No worries I thinks, I'll just give the dog a few slices everytime I pass it. Kept tasting them though.
Usually unripe apples are more sharp, like cooking apples.
Just recently they changed and ripened.
Thing is they taste like pears.
I hit the internet with "Do apples and pears hybridize?" and it seems there's such a thing as Pear Apples.
So, it seems thats whats growing on that bit of waste ground. Thats a win.
Tree on a bit of waste ground by where I walk the dog has loads of apples this year. Never even noticed the tree from the rest before.
Tasted em a while ago and found them to be very hard and lacking flavour.
No worries I thinks, I'll just give the dog a few slices everytime I pass it. Kept tasting them though.
Usually unripe apples are more sharp, like cooking apples.
Just recently they changed and ripened.
Thing is they taste like pears.
I hit the internet with "Do apples and pears hybridize?" and it seems there's such a thing as Pear Apples.
So, it seems thats whats growing on that bit of waste ground. Thats a win.
Mushroom risotto tonight 
Field Mushrooms and Parasols
Field Mushrooms and Parasols
From two separate woodlands today. Just a tiny fraction of what I saw, but I think that’ll do me for the year now once I dehydrate these.
Plenty of pickings for wildlife/other foragers.
Raspberries, apples, brambles, bittercress and some wild marjoram.
i sadly know only a few wild edibles of the carribean, but currently beach grapes and jobos (=a small orangy- yellow fruit with a large stone, somewhat sour but the monkeys love them) are producing
SWMBO and I have been staying with friends at their house in the forest, preserving duck in jars.
Wandering in the "garden" I found what looks like something in the dock and sorrel family (rumex).
But it is growing flat to the ground and I've not been able to identify it. Maybe it's not a rumex, at all.
Wandering in the "garden" I found what looks like something in the dock and sorrel family (rumex).
But it is growing flat to the ground and I've not been able to identify it. Maybe it's not a rumex, at all.
Thanks, Dale.
There's some abandoned farmland near home (it's now used as overspill for when the river risks flooding) that is covered every year with what I think is Spanish sorrel that grows quite tall; I've foraged that a few times.
Not including wood sorrel I think the sorrels all grow tall flower stems. On your picture are the basal leaves which are rosette like and ground hugging. I have not heard of Spanish sorrel but I will look it up x
I looked and cant find it, then I asked AI. It came up with no results after I asked ..... is there a plant called Spanish sorrel'? dunno xx
