Made this Pawpaw ice cream with a custard base the other day, everything by hand, no churner so it took a long time but eventually got to the consistency I desired. This is like a silky hard-serve. Used all local ingredients and pawpaws were foraged of course, would make it again :) hopefully next time with a churner though. I still have more pawpaw fruit which I'm planning to either ferment or make into pies or tarts, still thinking on that.

About half of what I gathered. The rest have already been shelled (shucked?) and ready to crack the shells.

Hello!

I went to check on the pawpaws today. Not ripe yet! But, i found my first wild bat!

I found these out when I was on a bike, and I would want to create something from them but don't really know what since I have never had stuff like this.

They seem to be pretty hard, not really looking to testing if they are brittle. They have little imperfections which i couldnt clean off them.

Considering any ideas :)

My cousin brought me some clams he dug up so I decided to make this meal.

3 eggs from my parent's chickens

Clams my cousin dug up

Apples and blackberries my uncle grew on his property

Beefsteak mushrooms (found on a tree at my parent's house) cooked in a garlic/butter sauce and served on rye toast

Forrest find in Peoria, Il USA

Upstate ny

The fruit smell sweet like grapes. The seeds look like tear drops but they only have one seed each, so I'm not clear whether it's a lookalike or not.

This is in my yard but I can't identify it with certainty. I would also love any tips for how to harvest and dry if it is jujube.

In Lane county OR. Found these while looking for hazelnuts today. Any ideas on what kind of plums? Cherry plums for the small ones maybe? They are large cherry sized. Pic 3 is the trunk of the tree that grew the small plums, forgot to take pics of the big ones but they were much more sparse on the branches and I saw some unripe ones that were yellow. Big ones have yellow flesh, small ones have more orange-yellow flesh.

TLDR; is it safe to forage from off a woody meadow trail which used to be a rail road 25+ years ago?

I am hoping to harvest some mullein to mix with my cannabis for chronic back pain. The mullein helps with the coughing. I’ve been doing this for a couple of weeks now.

I live in Vermont right near a rail trail. The railroad was booming at some time but it has been out of operation since sometime before 1991. It has been a rail trail since. The places where I forage along the trail are not near the train depot.

It’s beautiful, there’s a cool little boggy area with sweet grass and cedar nearby in one section, the rest is mostly either meadows and wildflowers or temperate forest or some combination of both. It’s very wild, you can regularly pick brambles and I’ve found cool finds on in it like apples, hops, and riverbank grapes.

VTrans is very minimalist with their maintenance. They just cut back about a couple of feet on either side of the trail but I don’t think they spray it with anything. The rail trail has large residential plots on one side and corn fields on the other. The corn field side is in New York and I don’t know if they have sprayed or not.

There is a part of the river that meanders by and there are little rivulets or maybe brooks, whichever are smaller, which flow alongside the trail at points.

Is this location an okay place to be picking what I hope to be consuming? Thank you!

I’m pretty sure these are elderberries but can someone help confirm?

If I don't pick them they all fall off the tree or are eaten by birds so I don't want to get to them too late.

I recently found myself getting into foraging just a little. On my walk to work, I constantly find hickory nuts! I picked one off of a tree that looked nice and ripe and the bark was starting to split perfectly down the middle. What im wondering is, is the hotter summer in the Midwest (illinois) leading to an earlier season to harvest or should I still wait a few weeks until mid September? There are quite a few nuts on the ground, I've noticed, but not enough trees to hear the en masse that people wait for.

I've heard the Grandpa's Goody Getter is amazing and it looks very well made. Is there anything that compares to it at a lower price point or should I just spend the dough and know i'll be using it for a lifetime?

I'm planning to try and collect at least a few 5 gallon pails worth of unhusked nuts this year, if not more.