r/foraginguk

I made a nice crumble last year, any other nice recipes you can suggest?

They run along a pathway close to home for around 100 meters 😮

Tried a spot today to see if there bilberries around. I found what I believe to be bilberry bushes but they had hardly any fruit and what was there was tiny, like half the size of a pea. Are these just immature plants or do the reddening leaves mean they have already fruited and are starting to die back a bit?

I know the season is usually July-August but see people getting them early this year, presumably due to the warm weather, so wondering if the window has passed before I go exploring other places nearby.

Can anyone help identify this plant please? At first I thought it might be under-ripe Deadly Nightshade but when I got back and looked it up, I was more unsure. I haven't come across anything similar in any guides or books I have.

Instinctively it has a look of "don't touch me!" about it!

Tart but delicious

Hi can you please confirm this is common mugwort? I’m pretty sure it is
Photo of the plant and picked pieces that I’m planning on drying out

See this plant frequently as i walk up my hill. I think its rosehip but it looks way to weird for that no?

Every green spot in this picture is a bilberry plant. I’m sure there’s enough here to feed the entire human race, but I just want enough for myself.

Is there a way to pick these faster than one at a time?

Hi all, ive built an offline Android app for tracking your findings taking notes and a simple identification with a homepage showing what's in season, its a work in progress but it would be good to get people to test it and get there thoughts on it and what improvements could be added.

I've set up a Google groups if anyone wants to join to get early access to the app. And a few pictures attached.

brackenapps-testing@googlegroups.com

I have a permaculture garden so I allow birds, weather and animals to seed at will. Leeds Uk

Edit: hedge parsley?

Found these beauties on a walk.

Lush and plenty of wild vegetables at the moment, so I am taking advantage of that. I have ground elder, dandelion, plantain, wild strawberry, and a strand of my grape vine here for some tang. This dish is very nutritious. I find them really nice in coconut dishes. Make sure your ID is correct.

I wanted to see which edible wild plants, fruit and nut trees were near me, so I built

a map for it. It is called Plukplek, it is free, has no ads, and you do not need an

account to browse.

OpenStreetMap is one of the main data sources. I query trees and shrubs tagged with

genus, species and produce, map them to Dutch names, and show them on the map. It is

combined with Falling Fruit and open data from a few Dutch municipalities, plus

contributions from users. Tiles are OpenFreeMap, rendering with MapLibre. OSM data is

used under the ODbL and contributors are credited on the site.

A couple of things this community might find interesting:

- Many trees are only tagged genus=Prunus, which is ambiguous: sweet cherry and sloe,

but also ornamental flowering cherries and even toxic cherry laurel. I exclude the

ornamental and toxic species by their binomial name and only show what you can actually

forage.

- I leave out landuse=orchard, since those are usually private and would swamp the map.

If you spot wrong or missing data I would love to hear it. And if it nudges anyone to

tag edible trees a bit better in OSM, even better.

https://plukplek.nl

Curious what you think.

Hi all, I have two questions.

Has anyone had any experiance making cider from hedgerow apples and crab apples.

Also would like to get people's thoughts on an app im making, as much as I hate the mobiles and how they take up so much of people's time they are convenient and 99% of people have them with them all the time. I started making a offline app that I can track finds when out for walks etc, take pictures and write info but also put a pin on a map so you can find it at a later date and a few other useful features.

Does anyone think they would find it useful to them, I obviously haven't published it on the app store yet, ive attached a few screenshots so you can see what ive come up with so far.