Anyone up for a forage tomorrow? (Saturday)

[Paul Chalmers]

Hi everyone, 

I'm new to this googlegroups, and to Brighton, so keen to get some tips for places to go out! 

I am free tomorrow and fancy getting outdoors for a forage. There could be all sorts out there at this time of year - what is everyone looking out for?

Does anyone have any suggestions for a good area (maybe wooded) quite near Brighton? 

Mushrooms and nuts might well be out - I'm particularly into homebrew foraging via the Brighton Brewing Circle and my Nature Booze group, so any fruits (last of the blackberries? serviceberries) would be great, as well as various herbs for  beer. 

Any hot tips? Anyone want to come with me?

Paul 

[Beth Tilston]

Can't do tomorrow alas, but it's definitely fungi-a-go-go after after all the rain we have been having.  Went on a fungi foray last Friday over the back of the Dyke and we found lots of non-edibles, but not that much that was edible.  Our best edible find was a field mushroom.  

I have to say that I would definitely not have picked a field mushroom on my own (I was with a couple of experts) as, while they look very much like the ones you buy in a supermarket, so do the Deathcap and the Destroying Angel (god, I love the names of fungi...), at least until you look at the bottom of the stem.  I have decided that this year is the year of identifying fungus families (I'm taking my mycology slowly), next autumn can be for identifying individual mushrooms.  How about other people...  Are you interested in foraging fungi? 

Beth 

x

Paul 

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[vera zakharov]

I was talking about going foraying somewhere tomorrow! After today's dryness and tonight's rain it could be good. A friend suggested some new woods to explore but they might require car access... If people here are up for it let's organise something! I'm well up for waking up early and gettin out there.

Vera

Ps attaching a deathcap photo so people can behold its terror. Btw I highly recommend Wikipedia's list of deadly fungi as homework. : )

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[Beth Tilston]

Does anyone remember the game Guess Who from when they were a kid?  I was thinking about getting an old set and substuting the beardy faces for fungi (or indeed plants).  If I do this (and there are definitely no promises that I'll get around to it any time soon), who would be up for playing it with me?  

Beth 

[Paul Chalmers]

Sounds good - if there is a car forthcoming (I don't have one) lets do it - if not, we can find a public transport access wood somewhere . . . .  I know devil's dyke is busy at the weekend but there is at least the shuttle bus. 

Early is good. 

I will play Guess Who with you. Sounds like fungi. 

PS lets keep an eye out for bitter herbs - brush up on your yarrow and mugwort! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruit

PPS I'm putting this out on the Nature Booze network too. 

Cardiff School of City and Regional Planning (CPLAN) - Research Student
Associate Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre

[Hedvig Murray]

I am going to be juicing apples on Sunday, so there is potential for some cider making. 

anyone interested?

Follow my latest permaculture adventures on my blog: http://hedvigmurray.co.uk/action-learning-journal/

 

The plant that I am most excited about at the moment is: 

   rare Sussex apple trees

 

[Paul Chalmers]

I have two other people up for it if we start early, any consensus on where and when?

Paul