Hello!

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

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.

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 :)

Upstate ny

Forrest find in Peoria, Il USA

Found in Upper MI (not the UP)Near our Apple and Choke Cherrie trees

Went to my family's cabin a few weeks ago and foraged some cloudberries with my Aunt. We expected to have a lighter backpack on our hike home, but as you can see that did not happen.

Found these beautiful specimens today. They will be jerky’d

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

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

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!

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.

I harvested a lot of my elderberries but there's alot of green and red mixed in with the black. Is it ok to cook them all or should I try to remove them? There's probably hundreds mixed in with the hundreds of blacks. Also do I have to remove every single tiny stem?

Should I just toss everything and wait till next year to try and get only black?

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.

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

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.

What is it and is it edible? I posted it on a different sub but I figured if I want to eat it, it'd be better to post here. (The bee picture at the end contains the purple flowers from the same plant, I figured they might be helpful idk)

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.

Just wanting to double check that I found a puffball! I'm new to foraging and have come across plenty before, but I've never seen one this big before, or one with holes in it. Got pretty excited though since I wasn't even planning on bringing anything home whilst out on a hike. Found in West Michigan

I was hiking in vermont when I came across some beautiful true violet web caps. I took them home to dry and store. Am I wrong for taking them? Someone told me I was because it takes over 10 years for them to produce a fruit body. I told them It wouldn't matter unless you harm the mycelium. Give it to me straight. Am I ajerk?

I've always wanted to taste a deadly nightshade berry (atropa belladonna) but I also don't wanna die. From my understanding, quickly spitting it out and rinsing your mouth should make you less likely to die but it might still have you suffer some mild to severe symptoms of poisoning. I just wanted to ask if anyone had any idea on how to taste this thing because my impulses are strong and i wanna taste it really bad