Having survived eating last years fungi I have been out again collecting what I can. My style is cramped by the number of Eastern Europeans, for whom, I gather, collecting wild edible fungi amounts to a national pastime. I did manage to find a couple of cauliflower fungi; following my usual path of not eating [...]
Posts Tagged ‘edible fungi’
Autumn fungi again
Posted in self sufficiency, tagged bay bolete, edible fungi, foraging, mushrooms, Poles, self sufficiency on September 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Emboldened by my survival eating puffballs and shaggy ink caps, I decided to go for a walk this morning looking for more edible fungi. I was amazed at how many Poles were out looking for them – I gather its a national pastime. I am kind of ambivalent about that, I suppose I worry if [...]
update on edible/poisonous fungi/mushrooms
Posted in self sufficiency, tagged edible fungi, foraging, fungi forays, mushrooms, poisonous fungi on September 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Well, I have made a bit of progress since my last post. Firstly I have now at least heard of spore prints, which no one has ever mentioned to me before. I went out today armed with my book and followed some previous advice I had been given to only eat a very small amount [...]