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Wild foods - gathering and foraging

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loopylou Tue 09-Jun-15 13:54:58

Definitely when it comes to sloes, chestnuts, blackberries, hazelnuts, wild strawberries, elderflowers/berries, Wild Rose hips and mushrooms (though I am somewhat wary of these after poisoning us years ago when there was a glut on the farm).
I've tried nettles but not ground elder (inundated with it in my previous garden, I didn't know it was edible)

I've used various flower petals including sugaring rose petals and violets.

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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?

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