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Who else is out gathering berries or mushrooms or other forms of food?

I had a great day today despite the fact the wife was out of town.

I took the 3 and 7 year olds out for some nature exploration and blueberry picking. The 3 year old enjoyed the outdoors, and the 7 year old was my chief scout hunting for new patches while I picked the current crop. We were only out for about an hour and a half, but still managed a little over 2 quarts of the blue good stuff.

Looking forward to a few pies! :D
 
Mmm I love blueberries. Don't forget to freeze some so that you can use them in smoothies in the winter!
 
Boombb said:
You brought 2 quarts home but I speculate your "team" ate at least that many in the process

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You hit the nail on the head there. My 3 year old son had a blue or purple face when we headed home.

So far no stomach pains from him. :D
 
I usually pick blueberries in the fall. Looks like a bad year for them this year, not much sun. Picking blueberries, bake apples and partridge berries is a traditional Labrador activity.
 
The Huckleberries are ripening up here.
There are plenty of big berries this year due to a damp season.
However, the Black Bears are around also, so I'll be armed when I pick.
Eagleye.
 
homer_ said:
Who else is out gathering berries or mushrooms or other forms of food?

I had a great day today despite the fact the wife was out of town.

I took the 3 and 7 year olds out for some nature exploration and blueberry picking. The 3 year old enjoyed the outdoors, and the 7 year old was my chief scout hunting for new patches while I picked the current crop. We were only out for about an hour and a half, but still managed a little over 2 quarts of the blue good stuff.

Looking forward to a few pies! :D
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My friends at a Hutterite colony made me some pies from their latest excursion picking Saskatoon berries. They tasted so amazing, I almost forgot my own name!
 
Saskatoons and wild raspberrys on our place. Lots of hazelnuts too! Got a few meals of oyster mushrooms this spring too. Love the wild stuff!
 
We pick blueberries, low bush, high bush cranberries, pin cherries, hazel nuts if we beat the reds and chippers, shaggy manes, stomp and morels when in season. Leeks and fiddleheads in spring time. When on the trail I eat bunch berries, service berries same as saskatoon, rasp and black berries and my favorite is the stinging nettle plant.
And if your a real outdoors man a jack in the pulpit.:p
 
Here's a quick pic of some shrooms I picked this a.m. on my own property. From the top of the pic:

A coral mushroom (lions mane I think)
Some puffballs
Velvet foots
and Yellow Russulas
 

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I started foraging a few years ago, so far this year wild leaks and fiddleheads(during turkey season and ate them with my bird) and raspberries at the cottage. Last year was very good for raspberries, this year OK. Didnt yet get on to mushrooms but I looked for morels a few times. Found leeks instead. I find the mushrooms more challenging, there seems to be a bad look-a-like for every good one.
 
I fried up the Horse Mushrooms in butter and vacumm sealed them for the freezer, I found the mother load.
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