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Shaggy Ink Caps (Coprinus comatus) are a wonderfully “mushroomy” mushroom in both taste and appearance but you need to pick and cook them quickly before they collapse into an inky mush of spores.
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Start looking for these now in the leaf mould at the base of beech trees and chestnuts, but also keep an eye open for them in coniferous woodland. The very distinctive purple colour is instantly recognisable but not as easy to spot among fallen leaves.
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I love showing people these mushrooms and then declaring that they are not only edible but delicious. The way that they bleed bright orange is quite offputting for some and most people would instinctively think that this indicates that they are poisonous.
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Beech mast can be gathered in late summer, early autumn and have been falling for a couple of weeks already in my locality. Look for little brown nuts about 1.5cm long with a triangular cross section.
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Late summer is probably the most abundant time in the forager’s calendar so I’m starting a series of Friday postings on wild foods you can gather. This morning I went out for Saffron Milk Caps but had no success. The rosehips, however, were crying out to be picked so here goes:
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I spent a lovely couple of hours picking wayside raspberries last evening with a few good folk from The Durham Fruit Group. This group is a growing network of people in the Durham environs who are connecting over local fruit, wild and cultivated. Among other things, we are currently mapping fruit trees and soft fruit [...]
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