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Forage Fellows 🍄🌱 @lemm.ee Remy Rose @piefed.social It's elm samara season!
At least where I live anyway lol. That wondrous single week where we exclusively eat elm samaras before they all disappear. All the ones here are the invasive Siberian ones too so I don't even have to be careful or considerate about harvesting them! This whole big bowl came from a single small branch.
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Forage Fellows 🍄🌱 @lemm.ee pseudo @jlai.lu How to dry dandelion flower?
Dandelion are in full blossom right now. I want to dry some flowers to have dandelion tee later in the season. How do I do that? Should I lay them on news paper? I don't now how to do it.
Bonus question: Do you know if I can eat cherries tree flowers?
Thank you follow foragers!
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Forage Fellows 🍄🌱 @lemm.ee Lenny @lemmy.world Morels season is upon us
Ahoy foragers! I know it's been a cold quiet winter, but we're standing at the base camp of a very fruitful season of foraging! I saw the other day that a morel had been spotted in Georgia, and I did some crunching of data soon to be published on my soon to be published website, and have it on good authority that next week might be our first promising window for morels!
I've never eaten one, have no idea how they taste, and am on one hell of a mission to find one this season.
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Forage Fellows 🍄🌱 @lemm.ee Lenny @lemmy.world What season/plant are you excited for? What's next on your forage list?
For me, ramps and morels! I know we still have a couple of months, but I'm already prepping my knowledge and researching my locations.
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Forage Fellows 🍄🌱 @lemm.ee LibertyLizard @slrpnk.net Ideas for using candy caps?
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/16647060
Candy caps (Lactatius rubidus) are fruiting abundantly on the Northern California coast right now. My family and I picked about 2 pounds today. For those unfamiliar, these mushrooms develop a strong maple flavor and odor when dried.
I’ve never had so many before, so I’m interested if anyone has made anything interesting with these. I’ve made ice cream in the past which was excellent but it might be good to mix things up a bit.
I’m particularly interested to see how they would work in more savory dishes and if anyone has eaten them fresh. Is it worth doing or do they need to be dried to be appreciated properly?
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Forage Fellows 🍄🌱 @lemm.ee LibertyLizard @slrpnk.net The season of abundance
I’ve got my work cut out for me. But the timing should be perfect with thanksgiving.
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Forage Fellows 🍄🌱 @lemm.ee Kalcifer @sh.itjust.works Found in mid-November in Cascadia. What are they? Please see the description for more information.
View the spoiler for my guess at what I think it might be, but please first come to your own conclusion before looking at mine — I don't want to bias your guess. ::: spoiler My guess Psilocybe cyanescens :::
They were found in mid-november in the Salish Coast region of Cascadia. They were growing out of woodchips composed of a mixture of western hemlock (majority), and western red cedar.
Side view of one full mature specimen:
A group with a sample of the substrate (the cap appears to be umbonate):
A closeup side view, and internal view of the stem (it appears to be hollow):
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Forage Fellows 🍄🌱 @lemm.ee picnicolas @slrpnk.net Lobster mushrooms found today in Cascadia
My first time finding lobster mushrooms! A nice patch of them was on a path I walk several times a week. I picked the biggest ones and left some smaller ones that are still growing. I plan on checking back in a couple days.
I learned today that lobster mushrooms are actually a parasitic fungus!
Anyone have any recipe suggestions?
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Forage Fellows 🍄🌱 @lemm.ee nocturne @sopuli.xyz Screwbean Mesquite
I recently found out that Screwbean Mesquite is ground into meal and flour and used in baking. As a kid we would chew on Mesquite Beans, but we never messed with these.
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Forage Fellows 🍄🌱 @lemm.ee LibertyLizard @slrpnk.net Review of AI generated foraging Books and how they can kill you
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19329231
We’ve seen a lot of media chatter about these AI generated foraging books and unfortunately I think the danger is real. Be careful what information you absorb and make sure it is from a reputable source.
Although, to be completely fair, I’ve seen plenty of wrong or misleading information from books authored by humans as well.
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Forage Fellows 🍄🌱 @lemm.ee Remy Rose @piefed.social Choice violets of the Eastern U.S.?
The USDA's plant database shows something like 50-ish native viola species in Pennsylvania, where I live. As far as I can tell, they're all more or less edible, but what about the flavor? Are there any especially choice species that really stand out? Internet sleuthing doesn't seem to turn up much of anything. So far, I'm getting the vague sense that purple ones generally taste better than yellow or white ones, and that short species might be sweeter than tall species.
This seems like the sort of thing that somebody somewhere must have figured out by now, since violet used to be a pretty popular flavor. The classic liqueur Creme Yvette is very specifically flavored with these obscure Italian Parma violets, which implies that they must taste somehow unique. So what about the rest of them?
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Forage Fellows 🍄🌱 @lemm.ee Remy Rose @piefed.social Eastern Tent Caterpillar "Silk"
This is a little off the beaten track as far as usual foraging posts go, but I had a question. Has anyone tried spinning Eastern Tent Caterpillar webs into a usable thread/yarn? I'm definitely not one of those people who hates them and wants them gone; they're native here and relatively harmless, despite what naysayers would have you believe. However, they sure do make a ton of webs! I'm sure they could probably stand to part with a little here or there right? Like, after they're done with them?
Not sure if it would work, but if it is spinnable, seems like it might be a convenient local source for an ahimsa silk alternative.
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Forage Fellows 🍄🌱 @lemm.ee Lenny @lemmy.world Elderberries!
I'm gradually working through my forage wishlist. Next up, persimmons! What's on your wishlist?
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Forage Fellows 🍄🌱 @lemm.ee LibertyLizard @slrpnk.net The abundance of the north woods in August is fantastic!
Just watch out for the mosquitoes, ticks, flies, leeches, thorns, and poison ivy!