Foraging

[Mikey]

My arms and legs and especially my hands are looking a little worse for wear at the moment. My battle scars are there for all to see. Why are the best ones always just beyond your tippy toes...?

[veggiechicken]

My battle scars are there for all to see. Why are the best ones always just beyond your tippy toes...?

What are - your scars?

[chris]

I know, there are some *huge* ones at the top of the place I've found near here - last week I ended up ripping a shirt, and having blackberry stains all over my trousers :/ I did manage to get a few though

[Mikey]

My arms and legs and especially my hands are looking a little worse for wear at the moment. My battle scars are there for all to see.

What are - your scars?

Now then VC there was nothing ambiguous about my comment, and I'm still wearing shorts and t shirt at the moment so yes they are there for all to see!!! My foraging scars..... you can't leave no room for that little lady....

[veggiechicken]

Everything is beyond my little tippytoes Mikey
Incidentally - the rowan berries here have been stripped by the birds already. If anyone wants to pick some, gather them soon

[Mikey]

I can see one of my neighbours trees laden with them, it seems rude to ask. I'm picking a lot of crab apples at the moment, my now usual walk with the dog takes me across farm fields and there are one or two smashing trees along it. I need to take a sheet really.

[chris]

I use my phone and tag locations on google maps. I do feel the need for a small forages toolkit mind!

[Mikey]

I got a fab little mushroom knife from the ironmongers in cowbridge a few month back, cost £2.99 from memory. Its always in my pocket these days.

[Farmer_Gyles]

So. Potentially daft question, but how do you lot forage for things such as blackberries/sloes which are really thorny? I tend to wear long sleeves and just go for it, but I'm covered in scratches

Wondering if there's a trick I'm missing.

long sleeves?!?! man up chris, it's only a couple of scratches!
if i have sleeves, they're normally rolled up - clothes get caught on thorns and make foraging difficult - i do get some scratches - sometimes end up ripped to shreds - normally happens when i forage the day before a business meeting - clients probably think i'm self harming or something ....

[Tripmeup]

I use my phone and tag locations on google maps. I do feel the need for a small forages toolkit mind!

Or just design an app Chris...descriptions and pictures of all the things you can forage for and then add as you say an option button to let you geotag its location.. Hey pesto.... Can you forage basil

[Mikey]

Who's Basil?