Do you like foraging for food?

[purplepoppy]

In the UK many people enjoy a day out in the countryside foraging for food. Ok, a lot of the time it's easier and cheaper to pop to the shop but where is the fun in that?

We've just had the first hard frosts so the sloe pickers will be out gathering sloes from the hedgerows to make sloe gin.

But where do you like to forage and what do you do with your harvest? (I'm guessing most ends up in jams, jellies or wine)

Hedgerows, e. g. Brambles, sloes, rose hips, hazelnuts

Coastal areas,, e. g. Seaweed, cockles, Samphire,

Woodland. E. g. Mushrooms,

Hills and mountains. E. g. Bilberries

Sod that, I'll just go to the shop

[Ill_made_Knight]

Up in the NC mountains you can forage for a few items of interest... flipping cow pies might net you a few magic mushrooms... There's ginseng. Somebody might shoot you for that. There's rabbit tobacco to harvest in winter. It's kind of camphorous and you can smoke it, maybe make a little tea... it's good for respiratory complaints. There's ramps (sort of overpowered onionlike things). Lots of useful things I have no idea about other than the standard nuts and berries and the like growing around (you'll have to compete with bears, deer, whistlepigs and rabbits for those though)
We DID have apples and pears growing right on the property, still a competition to get any though

[Lliam]

I live on 30 acres in a rural area. I love the idea of foraging and even bought a book called A Forager's Guide to Wild Plants. I know there is lots of wild food around me, but honestly don't know what's what.

We are surrounded by oak trees and have done things with acorns before.
My wife and I grow blackberries, some fruit trees, herbs and veggies, but haven't put in the time necessary to learn about wild, native plants.

[Rosexøxø]

I like to forage red velvet cupcakes in my local grocery. It is somewhat of a hazardous task, as there is always some other velvet homo sapien, who is willing to claw my arm for them. Especially, near this time of year.

The chances I make it to the “box of terrors, that only allows my green squares- for free passage to exit the dark blinding.. actually, well-lit site, is all questionable, and never set in stone..”

usually it’s all set in a plastic bag- to go. 😐🤲

[Rosexøxø]

I’m scared to vote E as I never heard of this delicacy before lol I think I’ll pass 🤣

[ZXCwWRQWz]

These days, I don't feel the need to do so much. I see so many walking sources of food around me complete with macro and micronutrients with their cheeks and legs and arms and midsections and the meat around their spinal cord. Why forage for food when there is food walking around you everywhere?

[goaded]

A and C. Elderflower or elderberries for A, and "Hallimasch" for C which we now have a dozen preserving jars full of this year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armillaria_mellea#Edibility

[TheUniqueOne96]

I wouldn't mind it, if it's something as simple as picking berries.

Depending on the time of year, I've seen blackberries grow close to where I live and one time, even saw a guy with a bowl collecting them.

[Jaximus-Lion]

I love foraging nettles, mushrooms, wild berries. It is very known in Sweden, my parents in law owns a land (they are farmers or used to be) so we go there on different seasons and i LOVE IT

[Kaneki05]

Seems ineffective when you can do the same thing in a shop just don't get caught putting it in your coat...

[exitseven]

I go to an island in the summer and there are blueberry and raspberry bushes all over the back shore. Sometimes I bring a bucket and pick a bunch. There are apples too.

[bean2k21]

Today I foraged for my mobile phone and searched for the Dairy Queen. I ordered chicken fingers and a Reese Cup blizzard. Ok, this is America. We're not a bunch of Neanderthals like that lives in Wales.

[purplepoppy]

I've known some pricks in my time but you're a fucking cactus

[bean2k21]

Forage me

[Iron_Man]

I’ve done that up in the mountains getting blueberries at our campground

[SnowedIn]

Poppy, you left off cheese rolling! But, I'm not much of a forager unless it's at the store. I am very good foraging there.

[coachTanthony]

If I had too I could easily shoplift for food YES

[Anonymous]

Yeah hedgerows and if I see a deer go down,
That thing is ending up in my freezer

[NathanDavis]

not an option in here... but we can grow some, a few things

[MarkPayne]

That's all we do in Africa forage for food. No joke for some.

[Likes2drive]

Maybe apple picking or pumpkin picking but mostly go to the store

[Anonymous]

No, I like the Amazon delivery bringing it to my door.

[Charliefretz329]

I forage everywhere I can! It is a favourite pastime of mine and I love learning new things

[Ms_Facesitter]

I would like to go hunting for food one day.

[dustybiker]

F. All of the above. I don’t mind appearing weird.

[Pink2000]

Absolutely not.

[Pete671]

I forage in supermarkets,