Foraging Walk in Autumn- Nuts / Fruits / Mushrooms
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- čas přidán 9. 09. 2024
- I take a walk in Autumn/ Fall and see what I can find to forage in this abundant time of year. I’m mostly looking for edible wild mushrooms, fruits and nuts
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What a beautiful basket of autumnal bounty! I appreciate your discernment in harvesting, taking what you need and leaving more for the wildlife and other foragers. I am learning from your videos, thank you for sharing your knowledge. Even though I’m in the states, there are some commonalities in the flora. At present, I have garnered about 50 pounds in black walnutsand I am in the process of husking and cleaning them for drying and later shelling. There’s nothing quite as relaxing as sitting outside on a warm fall day under the shade of trees, preparing food, harvested from nature for winter storage. Thank you for your videos.
Thanks 😊. Yeah I agree, love the processing of autumn harvests. It’s something that links us back to our ancestors 🌰
Wonderful. What a beautiful and bountiful harvest.
Amazing bit of foraging there 👌
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Another superb video, thank you.
Thanks 😊🌰
Thank you so much for sharing ❤
You’re welcome 😁
What a lovey video Lewis! Thanks for the calm autumnal vibes :) x
Thanks Claire. Love this season x 😊🌰🍁🍂
Another brilliant informative and beautiful video. I’m yet to find medlars in the wild but this has inspired me to keep looking.
Just excellent. You make outstanding videos with great knowledge. You should do walking tours. I'm going to my local forest tomorrow. Keep up the great work.!!!
Thanks 😊. Hope you had a good walk 🍁🌰
Great haul. Great video. You're brave going out in shorts in this weather 😊
Thanks 😊. It’s actually still pretty warm for this time of year
Well done. Thanks so much. Such a pleasure to learn about these harvests
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One of my faveourite vids Lew..very relaxing and i really appreciate you sharing your responsible foraging ethics xxx
Thanks Rach :)x
Another lovely video! ❤
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@@UKWILDCRAFTS I found a lot of sweet chestnuts today. 🌰
What an abundance of autumn foods.
I've not found too many mushrooms but I have collected sweet chesnuts from the UK Tree of the Year 2023. 🌳
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nice one for a day. Well done.
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Always look forward to all your foraging videos throughout the year Lewis, many thanks for sharing.
Absolutely amazing! My son and I will definitely be doing that this weekend🙏 thank you so much for educating us on this wonderful free activity!
Nice one hope you have a nice time, it’s a great way to connect with nature. And get some free food 😁🌰
Thank you very informative great detail x
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Lovely haul. I've not heard of meldar fruit before. Interesting you mentioned bletting them. I was just given persimmons by my neighbor and know I need to let them get very ripe. Did not know the term for this process.
Ah yes I’ve heard persimmons need bletting too. It’s really simple you pretty much just need to leave them until they go soft and overripe 😁
Joy to watch your videos, thanks.
Question: if cooked well, are medlars skins edible, like apple skins?
Someone described mushrooms like apples on apple tree - tree doesn't get damaged, when apples get picked (it appears, fruits are only ready, once trees "given them up" plus, those fallen apples are apparently tree's own food it produced, for itself. Wonder if it's true).
Fact: walnut trees need help, with raking its fallen leaves from underneath away, as as they rot, "something" releases into the ground which affects the subsequent walnut harvest (don't remember exactly what). In one village in eastern block, someone planted row of walnuts outside of the village. It's sad that people grab the fruit as soon as it's ready, but noone cares to do the leaves raking for those trees afterwards..
One guy said, that it takes 8 years for walnut trees to start fruiting (?). They also said, their walnut started in half (4years) time, because neighbours animals waste leaked, taken by rain water down slope, straight to the tree so it got liquid fresh manure each rain fall and so was happy and matured faster😃. True story.
That is amazing. All that food!
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Near Belas K used to be good when I lived there. Pretty certain I recognise those fields.
Didnt know ink mushroom you could write with the ink,interesting video
Love it
Thanks Lewis, id say you'll be harvesting those meddlers for years everyone is too busy looking at their phones and listening to music on headphones when out in nature oblivious to anything, from speaking to people according to them everything is poisonous and dirty better buy it lol.
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There seems to be a lot of green bits on the saffron milk caps, I have to assume they are still edible in that state or else you wouldn't have taken them :) are they safe to cook without removing the green bits (I assumed that was mould)? It looks like a great harvest, I only ate sweet chestnuts for the first time about ten years ago from one of those Christmas roast chestnut carts and I like them a lot. I think I might not be in luck if I went looking for medlars or sweet chestnut in the north of England (I've often read that sweet chestnut is found mainly down south), but I believe there are a few walnut trees in the area. Last weekend I actually got around, very belatedly, to trying some hazelnuts that I picked from some small local trees last autumn, and they were very nice. I also included a much more recently collected hazlenut in the same process, it was the sole nut borne by my young hazel and, despite having been blown off by wind a month or so back, it was a big beauty compared to the 'wild' ones I collected. That rainy looks rather nice @2:45, I can imagine cool foliage brushing against my forehead, though I'm trying not to imagine wet feet and water running down my neck!
Hey the green on the flesh is the mushroom reacting to air, so when the flesh or gills are bruised they change colour. It’s a good ID feature for this mushroom, and fine to eat when like this :)
@@UKWILDCRAFTS Ah, interesting!
You've got some amazing knowledge of nature mate, really impressive, hoping to learn from your videos.
Started to really enjoy a bit of foraging recently, something about being outdoors but having something to focus on at the same time, very grounding
Thanks :)
Ful life ❤
Absolutely lovely video. Do you have any hazel in your area? I collected loads of them this year.
Thanks 😊. Yes had a great hazel harvest this year too
What a haul! The abundance of nuts and fruits that you find would be hard to match in the part of Sweden where I live. At least I picked a bunch of sloe berries today from a bush I found nearby recently. By the way, how do you deal with the tannins in the beechnuts?
Great video again 🙏🏾
I have a big beech tree near to me. Sadly it never seems to produce nuts that have anything inside 😢, always seems to be just shell. 🤔
I know of a tree that does this and it’s leaves always die off early. Maybe it’s diseased
Maybe seems healthy enough though 🤔
This is amazing, great work as always! Question on the beech nuts: how do you find a way to open them efficiently? They're very abundant in my area but I find it takes literal hours just to get a couple of small handfuls - they're delicious but I feel almost not worth the effort! Thanks
Thanks 😊. I’m sure there’s probably some sort of deshelling machine, but otherwise it’s one of those jobs that take a while. I like to sit by a fire with a beer doing these sorts of jobs. Or getting other people to help if it’s a large amount
Is this the nuts that you were going to use for your bushcraft-style cooking oil, Lewis? 3:29
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How do you dehusk the beechnuts?
With your nails.
They come apart fairly easy using your thumbnail. Can take a long time if you have a large amount to do though
How long could you store chesnuts for? how long when you peel them too? because I have found even ones that pretty rock solid grit or maggots still manage to get inside. So as soon as I harvest them I cut them all in half. Problem is I don't want them to decay because i'm sure the shell prolongs there life.
can you eat any chestnuts? not sure of the exact ID but we have access to some large chestnut trees, Castanea sp.
All species of the Castanea genus produce edible nuts, just make sure that you aren’t getting them mixed up with Aesculus sp.!
You guys in England don't cut the stem close to the ground to avoid damage to the mycelium? Have I been taught wrong?
Hah yeah I get that a lot. There’s no need to cut the mushroom, pulling the mushroom has minimal effect on the mycelium and doesn’t affect the growth of future mushrooms. The mistake people make is thinking of fungi in terms of plants, and thinking of mycelium like roots. You can remove a part of the mycelium and it won’t damage the whole network. Also it’s strongly advised to unearth the whole mushroom including the base for identification. Some of the most deadly mushrooms have volvas which are often underground :)
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Sound advice.
I would however bring a knife to remove the dirty parts on site. Saves a lot of time cleaning them at home if the gills stay free of dirt.
What park are you in
Those Saffron mushrooms are safe to eat with mould on?
It’s ok it’s not mould :). Saffron milkcaps bruise a blue green
Which tree are medlars from🤔
Mespilus germanica