Surprised to hear that raspberries and black currants are to be found in the wild in some places, only blackberries and sloes around here. Made sloe gin last year but haven’t drunk it, so haven’t bothered this year. The gin makes it an expensive business!
I went on a course to learn seaweed foraging, so did that in the summer, great fun. A bit cold now though. Also samphire. Also people now gathering seaweed for commercial gain, concerns about over-exploitation.
Not confident enough to pick mushrooms, sadly. Old friends, originally from Italy, used to go gathering penny buns, ceps I think, which you can buy dried to soak and use, but I could never get the hang of identifying them properly, so never tried it unless with them. They could never understand why nobody did this in UK. And friends in Germany take foraged mushrooms to the local pharmacy, who will tell them if safe to eat