What have you forraged lately?

[teknohippy]

welcome teknohippy

Thank you.

 

[Murph]

Foraged some chicken of the woods the other day that went in a veg curry.

I'm sure I noticed some of that when I was walking today.I'm not sure about mushrooms so I just left it.

Me and my boy picked some brambles on saturday,never done anything cooking wise we just ate them as we went along.

 

[jonnie drake]

a few hazelnuts

 

[bushcraftbeginner]

Samphire grass to go with salmon - hmmmmmmm!

 

[_mark_]

Pub condiment sachets

 

[listenclear]

Pub condiment sachets

I like that!!!!

Been out alot, brambles, brambles and brambles, field 'srooms, puffballs (stump and common), charcoal burner, bay bolete, apples, plums, poppy seeds, red clover, fat hen, red currants, blackcurrants and hopefully more later today - on the hunt.

 

[John Fenna]

Blackberries - for Vodka, Wine, Jelly and crumbles...
Blackberry stems - for basket weaving....
not had time to forage for owt else - the blackberry harvest is poor around here this year and I have had to go furthur and pick more (small) berries than usual....to make the 12lbs picked so far (still need to pick about another24lbs to have enough).
I am getting pleanty of stems though!

 

[Toddy]

Acorns for coffee and beechnuts just for munching

I've been filling my herb stores. Feverfew, Blackcurrant leaves, red clover flowers (late for these here) melissa and mugwort today.

Masses of wild strawberries and brambles, and I need to pick the rosehips, the rowans and the elderberries.

cheers,
M

 

[craeg]

Elderberries, blackberries, greengages, vic plums from a roadside tree No hazelnuts yet, saw loads in the Highlands on holiday but none around here. Rowans, crabbs, windfall apples for cyder mmmm, rowans (jelly) dandelion, burdock, watercress.

Not a bad year for forraging. Just wish I didn't have this annoying thing called work in the way of my forraging

 

[Opal]

Elderberries, blackberries, greengages, vic plums from a roadside tree No hazelnuts yet, saw loads in the Highlands on holiday but none around here. Rowans, crabbs, windfall apples for cyder mmmm, rowans (jelly) dandelion, burdock, watercress.

Not a bad year for forraging. Just wish I didn't have this annoying thing called work in the way of my forraging

One of my top three favourite fruits, my mam was a barra woman, my brothers and I, at different ages, would push the barra to the Pier Head on the Mersey every Sunday and during the holidays, before I arrived, I'd eat a pound or two of Victoria plums, don't see many in the shops nowadays.

 

[hardr004]

we have gone foraging for black berries, elderberries, sloes, haws, hose hips, marsh shamphirem sea purslane, nettles, common mallow, sea beet and ses kale.

 

[redandshane]

Rose hips this evening boiling away now to make a syrup out of then add some alcohol /spirit probably vodka but maybe schnapps
Its an experiment based on a hungarian drink

 

[Harvestman]

Lots of sloes and rosehips today. Hazelnuts yesterday. From Monday I will be foraging for a new job, having lost mine today. Got the phone call on my way home from work - they didn't even have the guts to tell me to my face.

Might be something to do with the rubber band I fired at the boss this morning... Nearly landed it in her cup of tea!

To be honest I'm well out of there. More time for foraging for other stuff too!

 

[Harvestman]

Okay, putting the job thing behind me, today I foraged sloes, rosehips (2 varieties), rowan berries, hawthorn berries, some unripe walnuts, apples, berries from guelder rose, some balckberries (eaten at the time), a small quantity of elderberries (very thin on the ground - I only found one tree), two nice pieces of hawthorn wood, and a leather gillet (this last for a quid from a small car boot sale).

A very nice day.

 

[DaveBromley]

I got some blackberries, hazelnuts AND sweet chesnuts from Wicklow ireland on saturday, Everything that went out of season at home is JUST coming into season over there I was GOBSMACKED. Nearly as much as the bloke scanning my luggage at the airport on sunday lol

Dave

 

[sasquatch]

Had a real nice haul of pristine Hedgehog Fungus at the weekend and the one before. I'll saute them tonight and freeze them for future use. I've been doing loads of scrambled eggs and pastas and pizza with them. They're in really good shape and taste as nice as Chanterelle I'd say.Happy days, can't beat a bit of free food.

 

[daveO]

Foraged a load of chestnuts last week but about half of them turned out to have grubs living in them. I opened the duds and chucked them on the bird feeder, they went very quickly

 

[Mojoracinguk]

in the last two weeks, Apples (cooking) fermenting into a nice wine. nice chestnuts, hawthorn berries (now leather), blackberries that went mouldy days after i picked them, sloes, limbs of fallen trees (Willow and chestnut) to make tree hooks from, and a nice piece of spalted birch burr (that was found to be 60% mush riddled with worm and grubs ) so all in all a mixed bag.
I do hope the Birch (40% that is solid) is salvagable as it looks lovely went sliced
Oh and the elderberry port is now bottled ready for Xmas (tastes very nice even after reading all the folk saying it would be rott for the first year...must have just gotten some nice berries )
Mojo

 

[Dave]

Ive found a spot recently where I could fill a couple of buckets with blackberries in about ten minutes, but, in the past, I've found little grubs in the fruit which has put me off picking them.

 

[crosslandkelly]

Last weekend,