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I took a few of my children and my grandchildren foraging this afternoon, my two daughters and my son and there children it was lovely to have them listening intently to my knowledge of the woods they found brambles and berries sloes that were not ready and some mushrooms, we were out for a few hours but it seemed to go by in minutes my children said it took them back years, when we got home we cooked what we had and shared out the spoils there was not one scrap left and we all had full bellies for free i have just recieved text messages that the grandkids are all so tired and ready for bed and my daughters and sons are looking forward to a quiet night so who needs a theme park and tv to keep kids happy, they also learnt what to eat and what was dangerous in the woods, mind you i'm ready for a nap

Wonderful.
I just stopped the car and picked a puffball then checked on the greengages - my kids were mortified!

sounds like you had a wonderful time. I took my kids out early in the week and the eldest asked so many questions I now ave a tonne of research to do before we go out again. Mine are a little younger than your from the sound of it tho, eldest is 5 and the youngest is ony a month old!

Sounds like my idea of fun too!

Great ... I do this with my minded kids ... very rare we stop in ...they love spending time in the woods with me foraging and bug hunting ... and the crumble is always the best ...

We have had our step grandkids staying with us for the past fortnight and they are totally plug it in and play in front of the t.v children(boy did we have news for them!!!)
After a few days of teaching them the beauty and safety of foraging, we have spent days making blackberry tarts, jams and pickles and they have loved it, even asked to go on days we didn't suggest it.
We moved from the hedgerow to the sea and I am currently in the process of using seaweed to make things will let you know how i get on with that one, anyone have any helpful hints will be so glad to hear them!!
So in all a successful fortnight albeit bloomin exhausting lol

Sounds like you had a great time.

We are about to go out to our favourite foraging spot to collect Damsons and Sloes, hoping it is still there. We went last year and the council had used one of those hedge trimmers that attach to a tractor and had hacked the whole hedgerow to pieces, we were gutted.

Here's hoping.

Regards

WW

sheena wrote:We have had our step grandkids staying with us for the past fortnight and they are totally plug it in and play in front of the t.v children(boy did we have news for them!!!)

One child I look after saw out Tv on one day well old fella was around and he was impressed that we had fixed the tv ??? I asked him what he meant ... because he had never seen it on he thought it was broke ... lol I then discoved they put the Tv on first thing and it never goes off

hmm i been out i've found some wild horse radish but haven't picked it yet i've been out picking the blackberrys and made a crumble with them and 4 jars of jam i also got some rabbits too all free ;-)

We went foraging yesterday too and it was a very successful afternoon. I found lots of field mushrooms in a field; boletus in the woods and my 1st small pick of ripe elderberries for my cordial making later on. Most of the field mushrooms were eaten last night. The boletus were cooked and frozen and the elderberries also went to the freezers for now. I can't wait for next week-end to forage some more...

The family forage sounds like it was a great success, my children are grown up now and I wish we had been into foraging when they were little. It's like a treasure hunt isn't it. Me and my OH hope to go and get some sloes and haws at the weekend or one evening if we can dodge the rain! Our neighbour gave us the plums from his tree at the weekend, not exactly a forage but still free Anyone else got a sticky kitchen

little one was picking apples the other day ( crab apples) and about half dozen fell on his head!
just had some pink fleshed apples brought back :-)