well not realy forragde but looked longinle ? at a wild bees nest in an old pine the cone was visable looked very full to many bees for my likeing on shoal hill a small common wood on the side of cannock chase :mosquitos not bees but as close as can find
What have you forraged lately?
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I just foraged (well stole) a load of early windfall plums from my dad's garden. Eyeing up his apples too now...
over 4 1/2 kilos of blackberry's on the brambles behind my workshop (and probably as much to harvest again tonight if it stops raining.....) is nice picking them sat on the roof, 
1/2 is in the freezer and the other 1/2 jam so far......... any ideas for the next harvest? (and no need to suggest wine, I'm tea total
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1/2 is in the freezer and the other 1/2 jam so far......... any ideas for the next harvest? (and no need to suggest wine, I'm tea total
)
Plums! Zillions of them. Little red ones, and little yellow ones. The red ones make a fantastic plum sauce if you just reduce them to a thick syrup with nothing added.
Blackberries and a strange pile of about 6 or 7 cramp balls just lying on the ground in the middle of the woods.
yellow cracked boletus, lovely grub lightly fried Im off out for a forage early doors tomorrow will let you all know how it goes
Im off out for a forage early doors tomorrow will let you all know how it goes Well if scrumping next doors apples counts...
Among the apples i found a load of plums and blackberries.
Among the apples i found a load of plums and blackberries.
My next door neighboor has got plums and pears growing, I think a raid is on the cards.
irate:I have got some elderberries and blackberries though.
My next door neighboor has got plums and pears growing, I think a raid is on the cards.
I have got some elderberries and blackberries though.
I think raid another over my neighbours 10ft wall is in order, he has a whole orchard full
I have never tasted an apple quite like his, its got a sharp taste and its really sweet last night i got attacked by a wasp that had seemingly built a home in a rotten apple. I grabbed the apple not realising it had about 5million wasps inside...
couple of kilos of blackberries from the manchester cycleway (5 bags in freezer) on bag in a crumble that ive just eaten the greater part of....
couple of cramp balls from heaton park
gas lamp from a skip
couple of cramp balls from heaton park
gas lamp from a skip
Went for a wander around my nearby moors and found a rather large clump of brambles and raspberries growing in amongst some whin bushes. I grazed on them for a while before sauntering home. Very enjoyable bonus to my evening walk about.
I went out recently and got quit a bit of stuff a rucksack full if kindling from a dried up dead tree, will use when starting fires at home and collect fresh when out and about, I also got a shed load of pine cones for my hobo stove (thanks for the tip Wayland!!) and also quite a bit of ash ( used to anneal my file for my knife)
Will be going out this weekend to collect a SHED load of hawthornes to make fruit leather as seen on Wild Food by Ray Mears, I'll keep you all informed!
Dave
Will be going out this weekend to collect a SHED load of hawthornes to make fruit leather as seen on Wild Food by Ray Mears, I'll keep you all informed!
Dave
recently(whent to botton vilage and on the moors there were tons of bilberrries and rowan aswell as heather ate a bit of both (not rowan)
yesterday whent to find some hazel nuts (determined to beat the squirrels but nothing yet of significans (2 semi ripe nuts and half a ton of empty shells) bow drill material and bowl making wood.
a whole load of blackberries. that whent straight into mine and my berothers mouth... yum yum.
today more blackberries, and stinging nettles.
yesterday whent to find some hazel nuts (determined to beat the squirrels but nothing yet of significans (2 semi ripe nuts and half a ton of empty shells) bow drill material and bowl making wood.
a whole load of blackberries. that whent straight into mine and my berothers mouth... yum yum.
today more blackberries, and stinging nettles.
Lots of blackberries, more plums, a birch polypore, some enormous pine cones (stone pine, I think), and found two new sources of damsons (not yet ripe). Oh and lots of windfall apples, sadly also unripe.
Went out for a wander on my day off last week, picked 1.2 kilos of brambles and made jelly, found a crab apple tree so picked loads of those for jellies and chutney, also 'foraged' a new walking stick from the woods.
Spotted what I think (pretty sure) is a wild service tree - sadly the berries are not yet ripe. Also spotted some redcurrants growing wild (sadly too late as the birds have had them!)
Spotted what I think (pretty sure) is a wild service tree - sadly the berries are not yet ripe. Also spotted some redcurrants growing wild (sadly too late as the birds have had them!)
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