How to Identify Wild Edible Fungi with a Feast & Walk

Join me for an edible fungi adventure

Let’s spend a few hours sharing fungi foraging identification skills &  fungi facts

We will drink hot coffee and tea, and eat scrumptious cake as we talk all things fungi.

Then let’s cook together and feast on fungi with garlic, balsamic vinegar, oil, thyme and a little butter.

Then equiped with our new knowledge let’s walk.

We will first look for fungi on my farm ORTO and then we shall travel to one other sight in the Hepburn area.

This walk is inspired by the work of Alison Pouliot and Tom May who published their fantastic book called Wild Mushrooming A guide for foragers in 2021.

We will look for the following edibles: Lactarius deliciosus,   Suillus,    Coprinus comatus   Collybia nuda    Macrolepiota clelandii    Marasmius oreades.   Agaricus species.  Hydnum crocidens group  Tremella fuciformis.    Lycoperdon pratense

Rain, humidity and cool temperatures (around 20C) are best for finding fungi.. let’s see what we find

Join me

WHAT TO BRING
Samples of fungi you have found (you can freeze them)
Water bottle
A small basket
Knife- a butter knife will do and is safe
Rain jacket
Very extremely comfortable weatherproof shoes
Extremely warm clothing, scarf and a warm hat. These are musts.
A navigator as we will be driving to a new location and it is important that each person has a location pin on their phone and does not rely on following others to get there.