What I foraged today!

[veggiechicken]

Foragers may find this useful Foragers pack etm

[northepaul]

Hardly any sloes around this year, usually they are about now ready, but I checked at the beginning of august and there simply wasnt any!

Blackberries coming along nicely, I have had 2kg so far.

About 1kg of damsons, but alot arent ripe yet.

Not found elderberries


Rosehips at the end of the month.


Filberts were a no show pretty much

apples are abit late this year too.

No crabapples or Medlars yet.

[Mikey]

Aren't you better off waiting for the first frosts before picking sloes, I don;t normally gather mine until about the middle to end of October.

[Farmer_Gyles]

on saturday - 19lbs yellow plums and 7lbs of lovely juicy red ones! oh and another 3lbs of hazelnuts on friday! -

i obviously live in the wrong part of the country!

i'm in suburbia .... we have managed common land over the road, very little there for foraging, a handful of blackberries, some sloes, and a few rosehips ..... a drive down the road takes us to farm land .... all the hedgerows are something spikey / prickly like hawthorn / gorse, but no berries, very little in the way of blackberries ..... found one plum tree in the hedgerow in about 30 miles of driving, and can't get most of the plums because they're too deep in the hedge ....

i need to get right out in the countryside .... but got to find a place with LOADS of stuff or it's not worth the trip ....

[Incy]

Is there nothing on the downs these days FG? I grew up in Purley and am fairly sure it was one of the areas we regularly went berry picking.

[Farmer_Gyles]

not much incy .... brambles have been cut back .... it's managed common land ....

[veggiechicken]

How about Foraging in London? May give you some ideas for your local parks!
20 minutes in my local park (september 3rd). | Forage London

[PyreneesPlot]

A kilo of blackberries - bramble to potting in 50 mins.

And I smuggled a marrow into the jam too.

But our sloes are almost over - 400g in the freezer and the rest are yukky

[Llamas]

Try a few orange zests and a dash of cinnamon with your damson gin! Last year I was ready to give up on the homemade cough syrup, but had one last go with a few pinches of orange zest left over from juicing. What a difference! Very subtle, but it all works wonderfully together.

[zazen999]

10lb of elderberries on Monday which has made 10 gallons of wine and loads of blackberries.

[Paulottie]

Found some young and delicious 'chicken of the woods' at only 6 ft high! Okay on condemned cherry tree in friend's garden...but that counts I think. I breadcrumbed it, fried it up and put garlic butter lemon and capers in pan to finish. Better than any meat snitzel. Mate didn't trust me so I kept texting him that I was still alive all day!

[veggiechicken]

Mmmmm "Chicken of the woods" I've only eaten it once, and that was after a Fungi Foray, definitely worth finding! Lucky you

[chris]

Not strictly what I foraged today, but I found an AMAZING place near work (Swansea) today. Blackberries (tons, I mean binbags full), carrier bags full of elderberries, at least, mulberries (I think - will need to double check), sloes and some other berries that I've not seen before so will take my book tomorrow with me to work, for erm an extended lunch break

Loads of haws and rosehips too - I can't believe no one has picked any / all of them yet. Wish I had some bags on me today as I'd of had some.

Interestly, here, near me all the elderberries are green with only a few ripening. There, they're nearly all ripe.

Shall report back tomorrow with what I have foraged!

[Rabidbun]

Blackberries - the only thing I know!

[lulubell]

Oooohhhhhh do share Chris