Comments on: Reconnaissance mission: Know your foraging grounds! http://www.raymears.com/blog/reconnaissance-mission-know-your-foraging-grounds/610/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=reconnaissance-mission-know-your-foraging-grounds Woodlore Bushcraft Blog Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:25:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Paul Adamson http://www.raymears.com/blog/reconnaissance-mission-know-your-foraging-grounds/610/comment-page-1/#comment-594 Paul Adamson Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:18:28 +0000 http://www.raymears.com/blog/?p=610#comment-594 Old railway lines are great like you say. Nice walks to be had as many have been converted to green-ways linking villages, in Derbyshire. Alongside one the other day there were most of the food varieties mentioned in the article within a couple of miles, as the edges were planted and improved with many native species. There was even the domesticated apple tree :) I'll be off collecting some of each this year to practice the very pleasant act of cooking and eating wild food! Old railway lines are great like you say. Nice walks to be had as many have been converted to green-ways linking villages, in Derbyshire. Alongside one the other day there were most of the food varieties mentioned in the article within a couple of miles, as the edges were planted and improved with many native species. There was even the domesticated apple tree :) I’ll be off collecting some of each this year to practice the very pleasant act of cooking and eating wild food!

]]> By: Alison Delaney http://www.raymears.com/blog/reconnaissance-mission-know-your-foraging-grounds/610/comment-page-1/#comment-586 Alison Delaney Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:09:12 +0000 http://www.raymears.com/blog/?p=610#comment-586 Yeah, it doesn't take long to build up a good local mental map of where to find your favourite free food. If you go out for walks regularly, it's no bother keeping an eye on how things are ripening. I tend to put a quick note on the calendar at the beginning of each year too, to remind me what's available in each month. <strong>Winner of ‘Comment of the Week’</strong> Yeah, it doesn’t take long to build up a good local mental map of where to find your favourite free food. If you go out for walks regularly, it’s no bother keeping an eye on how things are ripening. I tend to put a quick note on the calendar at the beginning of each year too, to remind me what’s available in each month.

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]]> By: ste carey http://www.raymears.com/blog/reconnaissance-mission-know-your-foraging-grounds/610/comment-page-1/#comment-582 ste carey Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:26:41 +0000 http://www.raymears.com/blog/?p=610#comment-582 very useful thanks sarah! found plenty of Hawthorne in hedgerows but cannot find many with berries on yet. never seen a wild pear tree in a British forest before, i used to have one in my garden when i was a boy. very useful thanks sarah! found plenty of Hawthorne in hedgerows but cannot find many with berries on yet.
never seen a wild pear tree in a British forest before, i used to have one in my garden when i was a boy.

]]> By: sarah day http://www.raymears.com/blog/reconnaissance-mission-know-your-foraging-grounds/610/comment-page-1/#comment-535 sarah day Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:34:28 +0000 http://www.raymears.com/blog/?p=610#comment-535 Hi, the pips do contain cyanide, but as for why it doesnt affect them I'm not sure- possibly they dont acually crunch the pips up so the cyanide isnt released? That seems to be the case with badgers- this time of year their latrine pits are filled with really runny faeces that is absolutely full of cherry pips- often they seem to be intact. Maybe its the same with hedgehogs? Or perhaps being smaller they just eat around the pips? Hi,
the pips do contain cyanide, but as for why it doesnt affect them I’m not sure- possibly they dont acually crunch the pips up so the cyanide isnt released? That seems to be the case with badgers- this time of year their latrine pits are filled with really runny faeces that is absolutely full of cherry pips- often they seem to be intact. Maybe its the same with hedgehogs? Or perhaps being smaller they just eat around the pips?

]]> By: Rik White http://www.raymears.com/blog/reconnaissance-mission-know-your-foraging-grounds/610/comment-page-1/#comment-509 Rik White Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:52:11 +0000 http://www.raymears.com/blog/?p=610#comment-509 Hi The Cherries are already ripe, and thankfully a lot of them, which gives me a fighting chance against the birds. Last weeks rains have made them juicy and along with the winds, some have fallen, much to the hedghogs delight. I've always assumed that the pips contain cyanide, why does it not seem to affect the hedgehogs, or does it??? <strong>Winner of 'Comment of the Week'</strong> Hi
The Cherries are already ripe, and thankfully a lot of them, which gives me a fighting chance against the birds. Last weeks rains have made them juicy and along with the winds, some have fallen, much to the hedghogs delight.
I’ve always assumed that the pips contain cyanide, why does it not seem to affect the hedgehogs, or does it???

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