New members and some suggestions

[Beth Tilston]

Hey all,

Just writing to say that we have quite a few new members on the
mailing list so there's even more potential for foraging!

Just a bit of history about this list for the new members - it started
a few years ago when I used to try and get people to go out once a
month and see what we could find. I got too busy to organise a
monthly forage, so now this list exists as a place where interested
people can find other interested people and go out foraging together
as they did a week/a couple of weeks ago. The onus is on you to
suggest something, but there's quite a bit of collective knowledge on
here now.

As I wasn't able to attend the last forage, does anyone want to say
what you found and (possibly) where? Also, did you get around to
starting to preserve it? I'm getting into homebrewing, so if anyone
wants to experiment with me, especially with foraged stuff, I'd be
really up for it. Maybe we should do a trip in the next few weeks
especially to get fruit for wine and sloes for gin. Perhaps that trip
could include mushroom hunting too... There's a brilliant website
here - http://www.shroomery.org/ - where people literally seem to be
waiting to identify mushrooms for you. I think it's worth picking
them, not neccessarily with the idea of eating them, but with the idea
of identifying what you've got. I've also been thinking about maybe
putting together a foraging map which can be shared within a (this)
select group. It's always the conundrum with foraging... Do you tell
people where your secret stash is?

Well, happy hunting fellow foragers.

Beth
xxx

[Lianna Etkind]

Hi all,

The last forage was excellent. We came back with apples aplenty; blackberries; rosehips; sloes; large purple plums, medium orange plums, yellow and maroon cherry plums. We also saw sea buckthorn and hawthorn berries - though not quite so tasty!

I've got some sloe gin maturing and made some fab pies, though there wasn't time for a preserving session on the day.

Above the Whitehawk estate by the racecourse seems to be a good place for apples and there were plums of many hues above the Whitehawk eco-development (sorry I can't be more explicit about locations!)

And sloes and rosehips are pretty much everywhere.

Very much up for more foraging / preserving sessions: bring it on.

Lianna xx

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[Lena Grant]

Thanks for the tips! great as I live in whitehawk just near the park.... have been away but be back home at weekend so if anyone wants to rummage about whitehawk with me to see whats edible please drop me a line :) lena x

ps I would love to find pears... 

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Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:07:34 +0100
Subject: Re: New members and some suggestions
From: lianna...@gmail.com
To: brighton...@googlegroups.com

[Lena Grant]

Thanks I am up for trips, preserving events and sharing info... the more we share info the more food we will be able to find and the less time we will spend in dreadful supermarkets. I have been away so have nothing to report yet.... but I did find apples and pears on trees in grassy areas of council estates in Brixton, london! that nobody was picking!

many thanks Beth.

lena x

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