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what do you forage?
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frewen



Joined: 08 Sep 2005
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 05, 25 9:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Blackberries for jam, sloes for gin, some crabapple for jelly, young nettle tips for soup, elderflower and elderberries for cordials (or wine) sweet chestnuts - I could do hips and haws for vitamin cordial and good King Henry for wilted greens.

I don't trust myself with mushrooms and I'm not keen on wild garlic as I ate too much one year and it disagreed with me

Slim



Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Posts: 6645
Location: New England (In the US of A)
PostPosted: Thu Mar 06, 25 12:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Yeah, with mushrooms it's always good to start with harder to mess up species, like hedgehogs or chicken of the woods

Mistress Rose



Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 06, 25 8:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

In the UK lions mane is protected as not very common. We had some grow one year, but the tree collapsed and haven't seen it since. I don't forage mushrooms for the same reason others don't; not too good on ID.

I do pick blackberries, wild raspberries, wild garlic, but not often, or any other wild fruit I can be sure of. If I get to the wild strawberries before other creatures I get some of them too, but they are usually a graze as you go or share with family only quantity.

Nicky cigreen



Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9896
Location: Devon, uk
PostPosted: Thu Mar 06, 25 11:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

oh I had forgotten about wild strawberries, yes I pick them too, although the birds enjoy most of them.

Mistress Rose



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PostPosted: Fri Mar 07, 25 8:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Not sure what eats ours, but as they are in the woods and at ground level, I have always assumed it is small mammals, although I expect the birds have a go too.

Mistress Rose



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PostPosted: Fri Mar 07, 25 8:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Not sure what eats ours, but as they are in the woods and at ground level, I have always assumed it is small mammals, although I expect the birds have a go too.

Mistress Rose



Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 07, 25 8:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Not sure what eats ours, but as they are in the woods and at ground level, I have always assumed it is small mammals, although I expect the birds have a go too.

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
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Location: Devon
PostPosted: Fri Mar 07, 25 4:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

slugs!

Mistress Rose



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PostPosted: Sat Mar 08, 25 9:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I wouldn't put it past them; they eat everything else, but they tend to leave parts behind for a while, so it tends to show.

gz



Joined: 23 Jan 2009
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Location: Ayrshire, Scotland
PostPosted: Sat Mar 08, 25 4:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Mainly fruit... brambles, elderberries, apples, pears, hips and haws.
The squirrels always get the hazelnuts first...
Sweet chestnuts if I'm in the right place at the right time! ( Same goes for cherries!!)

Mistress Rose



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PostPosted: Sun Mar 09, 25 8:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I used to get cherries from another part of the woodland complex we are in, but the trees are too tall to pick now and I rearely get to the fallen fruit at the right time. I used to forage apples from gardens that had been abandoned locally, but they are all built on now. If I want to make something like hedgerow jam, I do sometimes go to a green lane near us to get rowan, elderberry, and sloes, and plenty of haws around. We have rosa arvensis in the woods, so not too many hips, but have occasionally foraged them. I sometimes get to the hazel nuts before the squirrels, but a lot seem to develop as nut tree seedlings in the garden. Not sure if that is squirrels of something else burying them. In the woods it is jays, but haven't seen a jay in the garden.

Nicky cigreen



Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9896
Location: Devon, uk
PostPosted: Sun Mar 09, 25 5:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

blackbirds have most of my wild strawberries... I k now as there was a nest right by the kitchen window, so I could see the strawberry thief at work

Mistress Rose



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PostPosted: Mon Mar 10, 25 8:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Pity, but I am sure the blackbirds enjoyed them.

tahir



Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45721
Location: Essex
PostPosted: Mon Mar 10, 25 2:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Nicky cigreen wrote:
oh I had forgotten about wild strawberries, yes I pick them too, although the birds enjoy most of them.


Ours used to get attacked by squirrels, used to nibble off the seeds and discard the fruit

dpack



Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46408
Location: yes
PostPosted: Mon Mar 10, 25 3:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

hide strawberries if you can

live in the tree if you want to be first on the cherries

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