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Northern Boy

Joined: 04 Oct 2010
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Posted: Mon Jan 10, 11 5:55 pm Post subject: Anybody...........foraged........anything?
It's been almost a month! Is there anything out there at all? I need some action on this section of the forum to keep me out of "does it really matter"!

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
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Posted: Mon Jan 10, 11 6:26 pm Post subject:
A lot of that month went by with snow on the ground. But lets think... In the last fortnight I've had chickweed, rape leaves, sorrel, alexanders, cow parsley and sweet cicely. Oh, and a couple of apples clinging on for dear life through the most awful December, I was surprised they were in good enough nick to eat. Just the kind of 'background foraging' that I do all the time really.

jamanda
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Posted: Mon Jan 10, 11 6:30 pm Post subject:
Does eating snow (not the yellow stuff) count?

gil
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Posted: Mon Jan 10, 11 6:48 pm Post subject:

No.

The ground has mostly been covered in several inches of snow, or iced over. I need a jackhammer to get anything out of it (including spuds and Jerusalem artichokes). Nothing growing, except a few foolhardy blades of grass.

I take that back.... this is the seaon when I forage for fallen wood for the woodburner.
Too cold / unstable weather for pruning, but I might do some felling, and coppicing of expendable things like the plague of sycamores.

hedgehogpie

Joined: 02 May 2006
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Location: Kent

Posted: Mon Jan 10, 11 6:48 pm Post subject:
Today I got alexanders shoots, white deadnettle, nettle, common mallow, common sorrel, velvet shanks, jelly ears. Enough there to make something with.

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Mon Jan 10, 11 6:56 pm Post subject:

gil wrote:

I take that back.... this is the seaon when I forage for fallen wood for the woodburner.

I've been foraging pine cones and wondering if the seeds are edible, if that counts.

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
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Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Mon Jan 10, 11 7:07 pm Post subject:
As you are still here, does that mean they are?

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Mon Jan 10, 11 7:22 pm Post subject:
The ones I've tried are Scotts Pine and although all pine seeds are edible AFAIK they're so small it's not worth it so I'll grow them instead.

marigold

Joined: 02 Sep 2005
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Location: West Sussex

Posted: Mon Jan 10, 11 7:50 pm Post subject:
I keep reading the subject line as "anyone forged anything?" ...

woody guthrie

Joined: 28 Jan 2009
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Location: Cork, Ireland

Posted: Mon Jan 10, 11 9:52 pm Post subject:
I keep picking up sheets of the papery bark from around the Silver Birch trees in the woods, once dry it makes a great fire starting material which I keep with my fishing gear. You can't beat a fire on the beach when fishing at night in hope of a Cod or maybe a Winter Bass.

chrissyholly

Joined: 10 Jan 2011
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Posted: Mon Jan 10, 11 10:10 pm Post subject:
Well foraging can happen when things are in season, not much except snow and wood to forage at the moment, so yes to foraging if you count that we have been enjoying the preserved msuhrooms, and the chutney from the foraging in the autumn.

Barefoot Andrew
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Posted: Mon Jan 10, 11 11:43 pm Post subject:
Welcome chrissyholly A.

dpack

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Posted: Tue Jan 11, 11 12:29 am Post subject:

tennis ball .large good quality dishdash both found by the hound

i have seen more than ive nibbled recently ,ive been looking for velvet shanks but none so far ,the catkins are out and full of nutrition ,york and hudds have been very cold and there seems little green stuff so far ,pine buds are not yet ready but could be eaten if needed

thinking of survival forage this time of year ,lichens are foul whatever the weather

Northern Boy

Joined: 04 Oct 2010
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Posted: Tue Jan 11, 11 9:40 am Post subject:
Hurrah!

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Location: yes

Posted: Tue Jan 11, 11 1:09 pm Post subject:
pottered about teaching ki about woodland ,didnt spot owt much unless one was hunting must check the watercress

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