I just want to make sure, befor I start making juice. 3 lobed jagged leaves. Curly grabber vine at the end of the vines. Reeeeally long vines. Bark peels and splits on the larger stems at the base. Fruit has multiple small seeds.
Hej hej, just getting into foraging and loved my first, yet unsuccessful, cloudberry hunt. Bought some books to get more educated and what to look for that can be brought back into the kitchen. But was therefore wondering if anyone here had any YouTube recommendations of people who forage and turn their findings into food in the kitchen? Or just any good foragers to learn from 😊
I posted a bit ago about some serviceberries I found here in Utah, but I ended up finding a whole lot more of them! We ended up picking enough to make a big ol' cobbler! It was delicious!
First time my wife and I have ever foraged, we found this chicken of the woods growing from a tree on our street would you believe it, cooked and ate some last night and it was amazing!
It took us 3 hours to clean and pre-cook them afterwards. I even dehydrated a bunch of them and blended into a mushroom powder, which is like a powdered umami explosion. The rest went into the freezer.
It's cloudberry season in Northern Europe! I never would have thought I'd enjoy romping through the mosquito-infested swamps, but the bounty is so worth it.
So these are growing in the yard of my new home beside some beatroot and Potentilla indica.
Can anyone confirm that they are edible currants and if so, when is the right time to pick them. They are currently red. Should I wait for them to turn black/purple?
I do most of my foraging in the woods along trails. I’m curious for those that forage in similar locations, how far from the trail before you’ll collect something to eat? I know some people get sketched out by the idea that things immediately along the trail my have been contaminated (usually by someone walking their dog).
I was out collecting chanterelles yesterday and turned down a few right along the trail that were maybe a bit past their prime but mostly in good shape if not small. I commented to my wife that I was passing because they were too close to the trail and a dog my have peed on them. Then a bit further down the trail I hypothetically collected I nice big fresh one (still mostly covered by leaf litter). It was too perfect to turn down.
Am I just a crazy hypocrite? Where do you all fall on this spectrum?