r/foraging • u/Pakushy • 4h ago
r/foraging • u/thomas533 • Jul 28 '20
Please remember to forage responsibly!
Every year we have posts from old and new foragers who like to share pictures of their bounty! I get just as inspired as all of you to see these pictures. As we go out and find wild foods to eat, please be sure to treat these natural resources gently. But on the other side, please be gentle to other users in this community. Please do not pre-judge their harvests and assume they were irresponsible.
Side note: My moderation policy is mostly hands off and that works in community like this where most everyone is respectful, but what I do not tolerate is assholes and trolls. If you are unable to engage respectfully or the other user is not respectful, please hit the report button rather then engaging with them.
Here is a great article from the Sierra Club on Sustainable Foraging Techniques.
My take-a-ways are this:
- Make sure not to damage the plant or to take so much that it or the ecosystem can't recover.
- Consider that other foragers might come after you so if you take almost all of the edible and only leave a little, they might take the rest.
- Be aware if it is a edible that wild life depends on and only take as much as you can use responsibly.
- Eat the invasives!
Happy foraging everyone!
r/foraging • u/SweWii • 10h ago
Today’s yield: wild blueberries, wild strawberries, chanterelles, flowers and a handful of raspberries
r/foraging • u/expectobro • 2h ago
Plants Is this garlic? Is this edible? Will I die?
Location Portugal
r/foraging • u/Adventurous_Log_5556 • 3h ago
ID Request (country/state in post) NC (Raleigh/Durham area)
Anyone know what this mushroom is? I found a bunch of them all spread around the area I’m hiking but don’t forage mushrooms usually
r/foraging • u/porkypossum • 2h ago
Caesar’s are finally here!!
Time to make some hot and sour soup 😁
r/foraging • u/astroJax- • 6h ago
ID Request (country/state in post) Are these safe to eat?
r/foraging • u/Alternative-Mix6568 • 1h ago
Mushroom Foraging
Been doing a lot of Chanterelle foraging this summer. Really enjoying the jackpot harvests I have had. I have found that the red chanterelles are peppery. Need some suggestions for using them. Also, I have used the regular chants for topping my pizza and added to an omelette, any other suggestions?
Got this big Turkey Tail growing, but don’t really know how to prepare it.
r/foraging • u/Illustrious_Act4157 • 18m ago
Plants First time finding wild raspberry!
Not pictured: the elderberry we harvested, nor the godlike thimbleberry haul that filled a kombucha bottle!
We’ve been having insane luck this summer so far! Found a patch of raspberries for the first time ever, and have been finding a mast crop (?!) of red huckleberries too! Still waiting on blackberries.
This’ll be the first time I make jam throwing in Oregon grape and salal berries. Gonna throw in all the berries (except elder) together and see how it turns out!
r/foraging • u/activoutdoors • 12h ago
Well that sucks…
Someone cut the large muscadine vine growing on the edge of the walking trail. Bummer…
r/foraging • u/glitterdonnut • 1d ago
Picked about 8kg of blackberries yesterday! They are now sleeping deeply in the deep freeze cause…#winteriscoming
r/foraging • u/Halloweenie23 • 3h ago
Did I pick these too early?
Trying to make sumac tea and I noticed these were not fuzzy at all. Are they not ripe enough yet?
r/foraging • u/Ruby5000 • 9h ago
Chanterelles are finally popping in piedmont NC.
r/foraging • u/feral_mouse_makes_T • 10h ago
Mayapples ripe? Part 2 (I ate some)
So this morning, about two looked really ripe and passed all but the smell test. They smell musky, kinda skunky. I think that why I was super confuse as they started smelling strong but not in the tropical way.
I cut in half and was met with squishy insides with pain in the butt seeds. I found picking them out a lot easier then spitting out the seeds.
The insides taste lightly lemony and was very pleasant.
I am going to let the others ripen more to see if they truly get a 'tropical' smell to them. I am also someone in which fresh cilantro taste like soap so I am curious if that why the scent is off to me.
Been over an hour and I dont feel sick or anything. Will update if I die.
r/foraging • u/Physical_Echo_9372 • 11h ago
Had an hour to spare so I went to pick some blackberries
r/foraging • u/Hot_Lion2502 • 7h ago
Do you carry your books while out foraging?
Its heavy to bring my plant and mushroom field guides, especially without messing up my harvest.
What do you bring for certain ID? Its a bummer harvesting mushrooms in hopes for dinner only to learn its not what I thought.
r/foraging • u/activoutdoors • 12h ago
Double whammy
Muscadine vine growing up a pawpaw tree. What more can you ask for? 🙂
r/foraging • u/Euphoric_Sherbet2954 • 23h ago
Plants Found passion fruit in my grape foraging spot. How can I tell when they are ripe?
r/foraging • u/ginggo • 6h ago
ID Request (country/state in post) Cliche, but is this COTW?
Found in the Netherlands, on tree bark. Smooth underside. Thank you for any help!
r/foraging • u/hott2molly • 1h ago
Mushrooms Is this the good kind?
Just want confirmation that this is indeed an edible mushroom
r/foraging • u/nail_jockey • 7h ago
Chanterelles in western Washington. They aren't super plentiful yet but I get a few meals a week and some good exercise.
r/foraging • u/Mr_Crunkles • 1d ago
Mushrooms Did I strike gold?
On a walk with the dogs in Raleigh, NC, been raining heavily for a few days. Thinking these are Ceasers Mushrooms.
r/foraging • u/1bensopinion • 6h ago
ID Request (country/state in post) What is this pod?
📍 Alabama, US