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August 23, 2010
Fungi Season 2010 is here
The Fungi Are Here!!!!! AT LAST!
I went out for a forage this weekend and found one or two fungi, including a nice Cep and a Common Funnel. Our resident wild food expert, Geoff has been out and about and had much mroe success. read his latest fantastic and ever-insightful article here
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August 18, 2010
New Book review, Wild Mushroom Identification Book Review, Field Guide to Edible Mushrooms of Britain and Europe by Peter Jordan
Click here to read the my exclusive review
I am delighted to have been asked to review a new book on wild mushroom foraging - click below or above to read the full review
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August 17, 2010
Latest Forager Notes Buy Our Resident Wild Food Expert
Geoff, our resident wild food expert has been out recording one of his recent foraging trips, because this year has been so sparse on wild fungi, he has been devoting time to teh abundance of other edible wild foods we have on our doorstep. Click here to read his column. |
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August 12, 2010
The Ceps Are Here!
After a very very dry spell, at long last the Ceps are making an appearance!
We have been getting reports from various parts of the UK from Pertersfield, Hampshire, Surrey, East Sussex, Northampton, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire that after teh recent rains, the Ceps are making a |
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July 28, 2010
Poor Mushrooming Season So Far
Well so far in 2010 we have seen one of the sparsest years for a long time. I was in correspondence with my friend, (Geoff Dann who some of you may have had contact with on this site, he does a great job of helping other users try to identify what they have found.) He was saying how low yieldi |
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May 14, 2010
Mushroom Pickers - Your Help Needed
Calling All Mushroom Pickers - Your Help Needed For Research
Anne Lereboullet is a student from the University of Kent in Canterbury. she is enrolled in an MSc of Ethnobotany studying "Knowledge about fungi in the UK".
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May 14, 2010
St Georges Mushrooms
A shot of the St Georges here in Wales.
One of my most memorable and delicious nights was 5 years ago when the owner of a local restaurant allowed me to add a few wild food recipes to the list. He was quite worried about one dish which was lamb sweetbreads in a creamy |
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May 14, 2010
Wild Food - Milk Maids
Today I found one of my favourite edible flowers, Milkmaids or some know it as the Cuckoo flower. They have a really biting mustard flavour with a slight hint of garlic. Definately not for the fainthearted.
Add them to any salad and it transforms the whole thing into something different. I hav |
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May 4, 2010
Strange Weather
I have atlast found some womderful Morels but they are sooo scarce. I have been taling to fellow fungi foragers and we are all resorting to enjoying wild plants such as wild garlic instead of mushrooms.
Also - am I the only one that has noticed the strange weather? we have no warm Westerlies or |
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April 15, 2010
Spring Is Late This Year. Where Are All The Morels?
Am I the only one struggling to find Morels this year? Where I live in North Hampshire, the very hard winter we have had seems to have made spring stay in bed! In fact it is not just the fungi that are nowhere to be seen but all the flora seems to be still in very very early spring clothing - certai |
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