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Wild foods - gathering and foraging

(28 Posts)
granjura Tue 09-Jun-15 13:44:26

Are any of you out there also foragers? I learnt as a babe in arms with my parents, about wild mushrooms, wild fruits and nuts, and so much more. Recently I've become more interested in other wild vegetables- like nettles, ground elder, bistort and sorrel leaves, and also comfrey, borage and african marigold flowers, etc.

Would love to hear from you and your favourites. When we lived in London in the early 70s, we survived on wild mushrooms and chestnuts gathered from Richomdn Park and Wimbledon Common. And in Leicestershire, I picked tons of wild mushrooms, like blewitts and bluelegs, oyster mushrooms and parasol mushrooms, etc, and always made sloe gin in autumn.

Funny, I posted this yesterday and it just vanished? Bizarre?

granjura Wed 10-Jun-15 22:00:07

same here, only seen them in books! amazing.

janerowena Wed 10-Jun-15 23:11:03

Oooh, just seen you need recipes. I am out most of tomorrow and again in the evening, only just in from choir now, but I shall fish mine out. I don't have time to go picking until the middle of next week.

Most cordials only last if you keep them in the fridge, but I do have one somewhere that lasts for longer. I can't have our fridges cluttered up by the amounts I make! The champagne however is best in a dark cool shed full of stuff you don't mind being covered in champagne. I had to let out a little of the gas each day from every single bottle after I lost three bottles. It's quite a knack.