Theres a thicket of wild black raspberries near me that are peaking. Normally I don’t mess with berries but a lady that was harvesting them the other day turned me onto these little jokers.

What other wild plants and mushrooms should I be on the lookout for?

Deez nuts lmao

Juicing them because its seedy

>>21472759
Sneedy?

>>21472759
This some real magic stuff guys. Thick as blood and has a almost artificial raspberry flavor.

>>21472774
Drizzle it over ice cream or banana and yoghurt.

>>21472744
LOL!

>>21472736 (OP)
It depends on where you are. It's impossible to give foraging advice without knowing your general location.

>>21472736 (OP)
If you're in the US then keep an eye out for mulberries, they grow practically everywhere.

Berry picker as fuck

>>21472861
I have a black berry bus in my yard and this month there was a massive berry harverst. I listened to the original Age of Empires 2 soundtrack while I picked berries in the blazing sun everyday.

>>21472774
>the real thing tastes almost like the fake thing
I know exactly what you mean but holy crap, civilization has reached this point.

>>21472736 (OP)
THOSE ARE NIGBERRIES NOT RASPBERRIES.

>>21472898
Civilization has reached this point a while ago lil buddy, not too many people go out picking wild berries.

>>21472835
Looks macabre, still quite tasty

>>21472759
the seeds and flesh are an integral part of berry you dumb faggot. go buy Welch's if you wanted fruit juice

>>21472857
I have a yuuuge mulberry tree in my backyard. If thinking out making mulberry wine, or wild grape wine when those come in.

>>21473580
>they awe integwal

lol and now they are not. Most wild berries have big seeds that arent great to eat.

Here's some berries I picked for dinner today

>>21473578
i can't believe this desert you're making for me, it's so macabre

>>21474038
>desert
Sahara?

>>21472736 (OP)
Whatever you do, don't forage this little gem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echinococcus_multilocularis.
For mushrooms get a decent book and join a mushroom club. Don't tell them you want to eat mushrooms and they'll show you everything, where and when.
PlantNet is really good and the only reason I ever use my smartphone. There are plenty of herbs you can use in the kitchen: chervil, tansy, sorrel, marjoram, mint. Depends a bit on where you live.

>>21472736 (OP)
I have 5 gallong size freezer bags full of wild dewberries in my freezer from this year's haul.

9x13 baking dish. 375 degree oven.

>6 cups of berries
>3 tblsp quick tapioca
>1/2 cup of sugar
mix in the baking dish and let sit for 15 mins or so.
>1 cup whole wheat flour
>3/4 cup dark brown sugar
>1 tsp baking powder
>1/4 tsp salt
>1/2 tsp both cinnamon and nutmeg
combine in bowl.
>3 eggs slightly beaten
>3 tblsp vanilla yogurt(or plain and add vanilla)
>2 tblsp milk
whisk together and add into dry ingredients. stir until just moistened. top the fruit with the cobbler batter. i use a spatula and lay strips of it. it always looks like it won't cover it but once baked it always does. Bake for 30-40 mins.

>>21472870
Based, did you pretend you were a peasant?

>>21473917
>the birds face while you were picking these
Great variety!

>>21474116
Sounds delicious, do you top it with anything afterward?

>>21473917
Nyce, what are the green ones?

Those red berries look awfully nightshade but I suppose you know what you’re doing. Or doing old fashioned research with what stays down.

>>21474323
It looks like a gooseberry.

>>21474323
Green is definitely gooseberry. The red ones are most likely redcurrants

>>21472847
GTF
>>>>/out/

>>21474268
>Sounds delicious, do you top it with anything afterward?

You can serve it with vanilla ice cream but I like to eat mine all mashed up with cottage cheese.

>>21474038
illiterate

>>21473649
You better be a woman

I used to have a grove of secret apples I found deep in the woods all huddled around a 350yr old stone wall. Probably leftovers from the old farm that burned down around 1740. Completely impassable, thick brush and thorns tearing at every angle, but I used to carry a stepladder out and harvest bags of them around August-Sept. Made great pies

>>21474701
Finding hidden fruit bearing plants among hiking trails is one of God's greatest gifts.
I'll have my own wild orchard of blackberries once I finish scouting this conservation area next to my house.

>>21474701
>used to

What happened? Did they died or you just moved?

>>21474701
New England?

>>21474725
a couple annoying things happened. that land on the other side of the stone wall has been farmland since around 1690, and it's several hundred acres much of which has been used as a hayfield for the last 100 or so years. the owners apparently fell behind in their taxes and the greasy never-worked-a-day-in-their-life offspring of literal billionaires bought all ~400 acres simply by paying the tax lien of $200k. Nobody knew, my family would have bought it in an instant but nobody fucking knew.

Anyway, they built a stucco mcmansion and put solar powered cameras all throughout their forest and perimeter, and bulldozed much of everything on their side of the stone wall.

Devastating as that big hill and field were the endless dream playland of my childhood and now the worst people on the planet overlook the whole town from their particleboard shithole and dozens of cameras peering out.

>>21474725
>>21474740
OH and the second thing that happened only about a year after the land was stolen in an undertable tax coup, I ended up moving away.. My family still owns several acres but now the further you walk the closer you're getting to that awful fucking house and property, whereas before you would only be getting further and further into the middle of nowhere. fuckin' sucks shit.

>>21474730
yeap

>>21474740
Many such cases, all the undeveloped land in my hometown got bought up for developers and turned into apartments and condominiums.
I can't even go visit the place where we buried my childhood dog anymore, there's an 8 story apartment building there now.

>>21474740
Cool, free cameras!

>>21474747
>rich landowner complaining about richer landowner
No sympathy. Sorry.

>>21474763
sweet jesus that's sad

>>21474767
eh, I did consider buying a .22 and donning my ghillie suit and just going out to pop them all out of commission, but it was critically important that I keep myself out of any trouble as I was moving overseas had to have zero criminal record

Pic is a nostalgic photo from days of yore. I think they're stupid fucking pool is on that spot now

>>21474776
at the time my parents bought their land it was like $100/acre. they could probably sell for 200x that now I guess

>>21474776
>anyone who isn't a rentcuck like me is rich
What an interesting world view.

>>21474788
No, someone whose family owns acres land in what is probably the Berkshires and has instant access to 200k is rich.

>>21474795
So do you own a house or do you rent?

>>21474795
they would have mortgaged the property anon. acreage is going for $20k-$50k an acre around that town and buying 400 acres for $200k is an extremely wise investment. the bank would happily grant a mortgage because we could have sold 20 acres along the road or pond for much more than $200k and still had over 350 acres of wonderland

>>21474797
How is that relevant to anything I said? Whether I rent or own doesn't change the fact that a person whose parents own a lot of land in New England and have instant access to 200k to buy more land is rich, and rich people acting like they're oppressed by richer people is always funny.

>>21474814
You rent then.
If you already own a house or property the bank is much much more willing to loan you more money to buy land, as they know you are good for it and if you don't pay, well there is all that property you already own to make up the difference.
Retarded clown

>>21474814
i bet you think people with houses pay for it all upfront with cash lol

>>21474811
I dunno, it sounds like you're a richfag complaining about richerfags. Are you and your poor landowners? If so, I apologize

>>21474830
It sounds like you don't know what property ownership entails at all.

>>21474830
my pairnts aren't rich anon. my mother retired recently and my dad's in his early 70s still working. they bought all their land and built their house for $30k because that's how cheap life was, and that shit towne was, in 1980. lucky for them, but there is nothing rich in their lives in terms of their bank accounts or luxuries they just have a property that was worth hanging onto for some decades.

Also we used to have about an acre of raspbreeze and blackbreeze, my brother and I would spend like a week straight harvesting buckets of them, but the glad they all grew in eventually grew over with beech and dogwood

>>21474851
Well, I apologize for being an ass. I'm from NE too and I've known a lot of richfag old money landowners who do the NIMBY thing of complaining about richer new money out of towners buying up land. Are you from one of those little towns in MA like Athol?

>>21474887
yep, my town's a little smaller in population and larger in landmass, but I'm a little closer to Worcester so it's not far for shopping and suchnot. Many people in my town buy their milk at the farm. You return your empty bottle and get a new bottle that has a foil cap

I would love to own a property further west or north, so many perfect rural towns and massive tracts of land.

These little fuckers, Thimbleberries, are delicious. They taste like cheap, sugary jam but not like raspberry at all. We ate a bunch. The Huckleberries were also a treat for the kids

>>21475211
These Indian Plums were also tasty, but they had big fucking seeds that made them annoying.

>>21474936
What do you forage out there aside from berries? Any greens or tubers? I'm much closer to the city than you are and I have all kinds of cool wild edibles in my backyard so I imagine you have an enormous variety of wild foods around you.

>>21475316
well lemmy see, lots of blueberries (huckleberries I think), cranberries, blackberries (probably loganberries or something), raspberries, wintergreen teaberries, spruce if you want to try and pull some spruce gum, giant blooms of chicken-of-the-woods, lots of sweet birch, beech, and maple but I never got into tapping them in winter, would have been really nice to make some syrup. probably some wild alliums that I never learned how to spot or identify, a variety of feral apples and crabapples, probably some other edible mushies but I never take the risk with anything I know I can't fuck up identifying

>>21475316
also lots of wildlife if you enjoy recordings:

https://clyp.it/ilh2xnfu

>>21472736 (OP)
homemade lingonberry jam is the GOAT. i just need to find a place for good pickings somewhere around here that's not immediately picked clean by retirees and migrant workers.

Didn't forage much but I found some wild raspberries in a part of the forest I've never been to today.
>>21474323
Redcurrants and gooseberries. They're very edible. Not really a thing on the american continent so you probably never seen them.
>>21475552
I saw some lingonberries in the forest today. Didn't have anything to put them in though.

>>21472736 (OP)
I got a bunch of wild blueberries and blackberries, pears, and apples around my yard.

I don't eat them though. I just let the rabbits and deer have them. I eat the rabbits and deer though.

>>21476347
Wrong picture, here's raspberries.

>>21472774
did you boil it down a bit to thicken it like a syrup?

>>21473578
Looks excellent. Only thing that would improve it is grating dark chocolate on top.

>>21476401
Not even, smashed them through a strainer. There must be enough natural pectin to make jelly if you did boil it.