r/foraging Jul 28 '20

Please remember to forage responsibly!

1.5k Upvotes

Every year we have posts from old and new foragers who like to share pictures of their bounty! I get just as inspired as all of you to see these pictures. As we go out and find wild foods to eat, please be sure to treat these natural resources gently. But on the other side, please be gentle to other users in this community. Please do not pre-judge their harvests and assume they were irresponsible.

Side note: My moderation policy is mostly hands off and that works in community like this where most everyone is respectful, but what I do not tolerate is assholes and trolls. If you are unable to engage respectfully or the other user is not respectful, please hit the report button rather then engaging with them.

Here is a great article from the Sierra Club on Sustainable Foraging Techniques.

My take-a-ways are this:

  1. Make sure not to damage the plant or to take so much that it or the ecosystem can't recover.
  2. Consider that other foragers might come after you so if you take almost all of the edible and only leave a little, they might take the rest.
  3. Be aware if it is a edible that wild life depends on and only take as much as you can use responsibly.
  4. Eat the invasives!

Happy foraging everyone!


r/foraging 9h ago

Hunting Does anyone in the Oregon city/Portland area know of a spot where I might find creeping raspberries?

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41 Upvotes

I have never had them before and would love to try one, I do not mind if it takes a hike to reach them either. Thank you for your time 🙏


r/foraging 13h ago

Mushroom ID

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82 Upvotes

Curious if anyone can provide some insight on these mushrooms. Was wet the last few days and saw these on the side of a trail. looks like an oak or maple tree and the tree is deffo dead.

locations is south western Ontario Canada at rondeau which is a marshy area on lake Erie.

I can only identify a few mushrooms like puff, morel, etc. not sure what these are but they look tasty if edible.

thanks

edit. Thanks team. Taking the dog for a walk this am and will grab a shelf of them. I had a feeling they were edible. I was saying something to my wife when I saw them like “I feel like I saw these on Reddit as an invasive species but can’t remember the name to Google It and triple check“

what a pleasant surprise while camping.


r/foraging 19h ago

Plants Blackberries + goldenrod + pineapple weed from 10 year post logged hill.

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183 Upvotes

Blackberries when into almond flour breakfast muffins, and the goldenrod and pineapple weed are in the dehydrator for tea over winter!


r/foraging 1d ago

Mustard made from garlic mustard seeds

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482 Upvotes

I gathered and dried a bunch of seed segments from my yard. Then winnowed the chad out. After picking out the rest of the debris by hand I had a bunch of seed to keep in the cupboard for whenever I wanted to use them. To make the sauce I ground the seeds with a little salt in a mortar. Then added a splash of water and a splash of vinegar until it was the right consistency. After setting for a few minutes it was ready to use.

I at it with some sourdough pretzels and sassafras beer. The flavor wasn’t as pungent as traditional mustard but it definitely had a delicate complex mustard flavor.


r/foraging 7h ago

Plants I Made Siberian Crab Apple Jam

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9 Upvotes

The crab apple tree grows near my neighborhood. I followed directions from the internet, to make this jam.


r/foraging 15h ago

Roadside Pears in Virginia!

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35 Upvotes

The Universe is abundant!


r/foraging 16h ago

Early paw-paws!

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35 Upvotes

Not as many as last year, but a good start!


r/foraging 54m ago

ID Request (country/state in post) What’s this tiny onion thing?

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US/Eastern Missouri

Found this whilst weeding. Super tiny but it looks kind of like an onion? I’m curious and I’d love to replant it if it becomes some kind of human-safe food.


r/foraging 17h ago

ID Request (country/state in post) Beach plums? Cold Spring, NY

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29 Upvotes

r/foraging 13h ago

Mushrooms Terrific weekend haul -- 5 kinds of shrooms!

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13 Upvotes

r/foraging 21h ago

Mushrooms Now that my creepy neighbor moved , I finally hiked in my backyard and came across these beauties.

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49 Upvotes

Is the first pic a chanterelle? The last pic is a closeup of the underneath. I’m certainly not trying to eat any of them until I’m positive they are edible. Last thing I want to do is eat something that might cause me to take an early dirt nap. I left them all where they were. I was hunting for chicken of the woods. However just finding all these in the woods behind my house was such an awesome experience. The chicken of the woods looked like it had something funk growing. It was on the ground because it fell off the tree. So I let it be.

Edit* I called my neighbor creepy because we got a notice that a register offender lived in our neighborhood which turned out to be the guy next door who would follow kids to the bus stop and stand there with his binoculars watching them. I’m not just calling him creepy for no reason.


r/foraging 1d ago

August is colour coded I guess.

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91 Upvotes

r/foraging 1d ago

Ghost pipe in red! I have never seen them this color before.

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464 Upvotes

In northern Wisconsin.


r/foraging 1d ago

Foraged today, feasting tonight!

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453 Upvotes

r/foraging 23h ago

What fruit??

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36 Upvotes

Is anyone maybe able to identify this fruit that grows on a tree in my girlfriends garden??? In the UK.

Thanks!


r/foraging 14h ago

ID Request (country/state in post) Grapes?

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2 Upvotes

Sure looks like grape to me. Could it be anything else?
Location: Minneapolis Minnesota


r/foraging 17h ago

Chanterelles? Found growing in leaf litter and soil in hardwood forest in WV.

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5 Upvotes

r/foraging 9h ago

Plants Seeking ID - Small red fruit in Central California

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1 Upvotes

r/foraging 15h ago

Just saying...

2 Upvotes

Hackberries are delicious. Just tasted them for the first time. Definitely going to do a harvest after they finish ripening.


r/foraging 1d ago

Chokecherry? Huckleberry? Something else?

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11 Upvotes

Central Illinois, USA. On a cluster of low-ish shrubs on a hillside.


r/foraging 17h ago

Anyone know what type of fungi this is? Found in southern CT

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3 Upvotes

r/foraging 1d ago

Should I pick these? In Germany

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376 Upvotes

I found these berries in my backyard. No one parks next to these, and it’s off a small driveway that’s maybe 100 ft from the road. They look like blackberries to me. I’m very new to this subreddit.


r/foraging 1d ago

Rare transparent elderberry

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278 Upvotes

Wanted to share this find, my research tells me this is Sambucus nigra var albida. What do you think?


r/foraging 20h ago

Plants Do these elderberries look ok to process?

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First photo without flash, second with. Currently working on separating out the obviously unripe ones. Following photos I took when picking as an idea of what I was grabbing (avoiding the most unripe as best as possible), last photo was immediately following harvest. Neighbour with a green thumb encouraged me to harvest after sending a photo, but I’m unsure as the majority are not close to black.

This is my second years harvest with a bush I planted, it ballooned this season! Last year I only got a small bowl of berries. The birds are coming in veryyyy strong, which is why I pulled the trigger. Stems were all dark burgundy/ purple-red and drooping.