What do you like to forage? Calling all foragers!

[Backroadlogic]

Correct lol I've got much better luck with pawpaws than morels lol on my property I have found 5 pawpaw trees in flower and probably a dozen more seedlings that will be producing in just a year or 2!

 

[Barnette]

Correct lol I've got much better luck with pawpaws than morels lol on my property I have found 5 pawpaw trees in flower and probably a dozen more seedlings that will be producing in just a year or 2!

Cool!! We only have one pawpaw tree on our property, we go to a local reserve to collect them. We usually have much better luck with morels, but haven't found any yet this year.

 

[CatInTheHenHouse]

I tried taking a mushroom foraging class a while back; it was informative but not in the way I had hoped. (Apparently inky cap mushrooms were used to combat counterfeiting. Great! But I wanted to know if the mushrooms growing in my area were edible and I still don’t know! )

I have successfully collected nuts. I tried making some chocolate covered acorns out of the ones I foraged but they were rock hard, do not recommend. If I gather more this year I’ll just try the traditional use as flour and see if that works out better. I need to get a better nut cracker for the hickory nuts, there are shagbark near me and they’re supposed to be the best of the local varieties, but all I’ve got are cheap claw crackers that can’t manage their shells.

 

[hammyanne]

I have a bunch of family in the Hudson valley!!

It’s a magical place! I moved from Brooklyn a few years ago and i don’t think I can go back to city living full time

 

[hammyanne]

I tried taking a mushroom foraging class a while back; it was informative but not in the way I had hoped. (Apparently inky cap mushrooms were used to combat counterfeiting. Great! But I wanted to know if the mushrooms growing in my area were edible and I still don’t know! )

I have successfully collected nuts. I tried making some chocolate covered acorns out of the ones I foraged but they were rock hard, do not recommend. If I gather more this year I’ll just try the traditional use as flour and see if that works out better. I need to get a better nut cracker for the hickory nuts, there are shagbark near me and they’re supposed to be the best of the local varieties, but all I’ve got are cheap claw crackers that can’t manage their shells.

Whoa! I’m curious about the chocolate covered acorns.. what sort of treatment, if any, did you give the acorns? I’ve been curious about collecting them but it seems like so much work to process them/mitigate the astringency

 

[Backroadlogic]

I love hickory nuts! I need a good nutcracker too, me and my toddlers sit out like cavemen carefully breaking them little by little with big rocks lol

 

[cassie]

Where I used to live, I foraged meadow mushrooms and blackberries. Never cared for morels.

 

[cassie]

I tried taking a mushroom foraging class a while back; it was informative but not in the way I had hoped. (Apparently inky cap mushrooms were used to combat counterfeiting. Great! But I wanted to know if the mushrooms growing in my area were edible and I still don’t know! )

I have successfully collected nuts. I tried making some chocolate covered acorns out of the ones I foraged but they were rock hard, do not recommend. If I gather more this year I’ll just try the traditional use as flour and see if that works out better. I need to get a better nut cracker for the hickory nuts, there are shagbark near me and they’re supposed to be the best of the local varieties, but all I’ve got are cheap claw crackers that can’t manage their shells.

I took a botany class at the local community college. There I learned how to identify the edible meadow mushroom. I must have learned because I am still alive, and I picked a lot of mushrooms. I never liked morels, so I never bothered with them.

 

[Cheekychook12]

I love mushroom foraging! Thankfully most kinds that I like are easy to recognise, like saffron milkcaps
I make them into various things, mostly soup and just fried
I recently made pasta with mushrooms and made some paper from mushrooms which was fun

 

[CatInTheHenHouse]

Whoa! I’m curious about the chocolate covered acorns.. what sort of treatment, if any, did you give the acorns? I’ve been curious about collecting them but it seems like so much work to process them/mitigate the astringency

Cold leeching.

By which I mean, after shelling the nuts I wrapped them up in a cheesecloth bag and put them in the back of the toilet (to be clear - the part with the float and all the mechanical bits) for about a week. Fair warning, it did temporarily turn the water in the bowl light tan.

My understanding is it was traditionally done by submerging them in streams, but that would require a stream.