Forage Fellows 🍄🌱

Does anyone else primarily find muscadine by smell? I can easily notice it from 20 yards away.

Found me some Wood Hedgehog mushroom today.

Considered to be a good od edible, having a sweet nutty taste and crunchy texture. Some consider it the culinary equivalent to the chanterelle. There are no poisons look-alikes either 🙌

Further info about the mushroom: http://www.mushroomexpert.com/hydnum_repandum.html

This was an unusual tree I noticed in my neighborhood and it took me some time to identify. But when I did I was delighted to learn it is quite edible.

Processing the seeds was a bit of a chore and I only ended up with a small handful for my trouble but it was still a fun experiment.

They are sweet and starchy, like a small chestnut. Tasty and if they were bigger they would be quite worth the effort.

So, test your ID skills: can anyone figure out what tree these are from? Hint: it’s a food I doubt many English speakers have ever tried, though it should look a little familiar…

Stumbled across this one recently, as the link and image suggests this is a fully 3D printable berry picker! Thought about buying one, but this one is rather convincing due to its features.
Link to print! https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/tool/mobile-berry-harvester-3d-print-forest-garden-berry-picker

I thought it could be a good idea to gather valuable resources for people to use whilst foraging! Feel free to comment other suggestions and I'll expand the list periodically. For now the list is minimal and general, but if/when it expands i might categorize them based on region or field of interest. Give us your best resources! 📚

• Shroomify (Mushroom Identifier App)
  • Link to Android app and for, iOS Devices
• Falling Fruit (Interactive Foraging Map)
  • https://fallingfruit.org/
• Pl@ntNet (Identify Plants with Pictures)
  • https://identify.plantnet.org/
• Fungus Identifier (AI based, use with caution!)
  • https://fungusid.com/
• Mushroom World (Database)
  • https://www.mushroom.world/
• INaturalist (Social biodiversity network)
  • https://www.inaturalist.org/

Found some serviceberries up in the mountains of Utah last August, and used them to make a delicious cobbler!

I posted this back then, but the post got deleted when the other community mysteriously dissappeared.

Here's some more pics!

Hi folks. I forage for plants. I know those pretty well. Whn I don't, I use an app caled PlantNet (definitely recommend it) is there something similar I can use where you take a picture and verify?

Where do I start? Any advice for a beginner?

Not 100% sure what the name of this bugger is, but a cool one for sure!

Hello, I created this community has the previous one disappeared out of thin air(?). I have not ran a community before, but I assume it should be all good as most people looking for this type of community are rather down to earth. badumn tsss.

Anyways! Share your latest adventures, findings, tips or tricks!

Let's see if we can grow this community together <3

Edit; media uploads seem to be unavailable at the moment on this instance, so will have to wait with adding icon and banner for this community until that is back. This also means that if your account is on lemm.ee you need to upload pictures to a third party and then post the link in your post :)