Updating my gardening posts page on my blog reminded me.
There will indeed be dandelion wine this Yule. Tastes like club soda with a splash of summer.
https://tippitiwichet.wordpress.com/2025/03/28/there-will-be-dandelion-wine-this-yule/
#foraging
Finally, I've written up a little garden tour.
#gardening #garden #survival #foraging #food #pollinators
https://tippitiwichet.wordpress.com/2025/12/06/a-winter-garden-update/
Public Citizen: Mushrooming Risk: Unreliable A.I. Tools Generate Mushroom Misinformation
March 18, 2024
"Emerging A.I. technologies are being deployed to help beginner foragers find edible wild mushrooms. Distinguishing edible mushrooms from toxic mushrooms in the wild is a high-risk activity that requires real-world skills that current A.I. systems cannot reliably emulate.
Individuals relying solely on A.I. technology for mushroom identification have been severely sickened and hospitalized after consuming wild mushrooms that A.I. systems misidentified as edible."
https://www.citizen.org/article/mushroom-risk-ai-app-misinformation/
#TalesOfTheShire #LetsPlay Ep. 35: Amid the usual grind, we share some lovely moments with Lily Cotton and Nora Burrowes. #lordoftherings #cozy #farmingsimulator #wetaworkshop #PrivateDivision #farming #gardening #fishing #foraging #gaming #cooking
Do you have a gardening or permaculture YouTube video or account to recommend? I've been organizing some playlists on subjects from pollinators to vermicompost. Here's what I have so far:
Digesting Food Studies—Episode 108: Un-learning and Re-Learning
Should all food knowledge be freely shared? When we learn in university contexts, what structures shape our understanding? What should we try to un-learn? To re-learn? To reimagine?
https://rss.com/podcasts/digesting-food-studies/2274516/
We start with an Amuse Bouche segment on the partial sharing of traditional knowledges, and then Alissa Overend and Ronak Rai talk about their article, “Un-learning and re-learning: Reflections on relationality, urban berry foraging, and settler research uncertainties” (https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i2.649).
Finally, transdisciplinary food artist and researcher, Annika Walsh, adds her own flavor to the mix, with a deeply reflexive response to Alissa’s and Ronak’s text.
#DigestingFoodStudies
#Knowledge
#Epistemology
#Ontology
#IndigenousKnowledge
#IndigenousElders
#Colonialism
#SettlerColonialism
#Berries
#Strawberries
#SaskatoonBerries
#Foraging
#Academia
#Reflexivity
#FoodPodcast
photo: Bonnie McDonald on Pixabay
Downy Woodpecker on Tree Trunk — This Downy Woodpecker (Picoides pubescens) is perched on a tree trunk, likely searching for insects. These small woodpeckers are common throughout North America and are known for their energetic foraging behavior.
#Foraging #TreeTrunk #Tree #Natural #DownyWoodpecker #Bird #Texas #Rain #Forest
#TalesOfTheShire #LetsPlay Ep. 34: Full bonds with Lily, Farmer Cotton's feeling his age, Rosie gives Odo his first sunflowers, and more gardening plots get added. #lordoftherings #cozy #farmingsimulator #wetaworkshop #PrivateDivision #farming #gardening #fishing #foraging #gaming #cooking
Ornamental Quince offspring that went wild near a creek. Grabbing seeds but let me know if you know how to root these. #gardening #foraging
Efficiency baby.
Combined todays run with foraging for dinner (oystermushrooms) and picking up a parcel. Found some pretty cool new trails as well.
#trailrunning
#foraging
#mushrooms
Combined todays run with foraging for dinner (oystermushrooms) and picking up a parcel. Found some pretty cool new trails as well.
#trailrunning
#foraging
#mushrooms
A long day of deep cleaning and art found me wanting soup at midnight, and I had a turnip to use and some homemade bone broth (the gelatin). Harvested leaves from daikon radish, carrot and broccoli, deadnettle. Seasoned with mustard seed, fresh pepper. Needs seaweed.
After extensive research and ruling out the toxic look-alikes, I’m now 99% sure what I have is tawaka (which means I will not eat it, I have to be 100% sure) it’s an older specimen and the veil is too degraded to be sure, so I’m going to come back to the spot where hubby found it after each set of Summer rains and hopefully eventually I’ll find younger ones and be able to positively ID.
Because I found the internet lacking for specific treatment of Tawaka look alikes, and I think that would be useful, here is one. Note that I am an amateur compiling information from the internet, if in doubt, please don’t eat it. Note the place you found it, come back, check again, observe it for longer, find an expert to check in person. You’re worth more than a mushroom.
Toxic look alikes and how to tell them apart from tawaka:
Death Cap:
smells like ammonia (Tawaka smells like portobello or marzipan, a sweet, nutty, earthy scent)
Can have a sticky top.
Has a boulbous swollen base.
Usually a green or yellow colour (but can also be tan like tawaka)
White spore print (tawaka is black/dark brown)
Funeral bell:
Typically grows up to 6cm in diameter and 6cm high so could be confused with young tawaka.
My specimen is much larger and has much darker gills. Younger tawaka could be distinguished by their larger and more prominent veil.
Poison pie - apparently it smells like radish, has a yellow spore print (tawaka is dark brown/black)
#MustodonNZ #Foragingnz #Foraging #Mustodon #MusroomID #Tawaka
Just the day before yesterday, I was surprised to find some local patches of stinging nettle, with young growth that looked ripe for the picking. Apparently, they do a second flush in the autumn in our area. I would like to go back and harvest a few, but we just had a big snow last night, so perhaps I missed my chance. I'll have to take a look next time I'm out and about. Either way, it's exciting to have knowledge of those patches for spring! Nettles are delicious. #nature #foraging
Im herbstlichen Wald des Ätna liegen frische Maronen (die essbaren Früchte der Edelkastanie) verstreut auf den schwarzen Lavasteinen. Kastanien sind seit Jahrhunderten ein Grundnahrungsmittel in der Region und genießen hier besonderen Ruf wegen ihres dichten Fruchtfleisches und des mild-süßlichen Geschmacks, der durch das vulkanische Klima geprägt wird. Ich sammle einige Hände voll um sie später für ein schmackhaftes, selbstgesammeltes Abendessen zu rösten.
20.11.2025, #Italy #Sicilia #Etna #chestnuts #autumn #foraging [2]
20.11.2025, #Italy #Sicilia #Etna #chestnuts #autumn #foraging [2]
#TalesOfTheShire #LetsPlay Ep. 33: Full bonds with Rosie, her dad, and Sandyman... and GARDENING AND COOKING CLUBS GET MAXED! #lordoftherings #cozy #farmingsimulator #wetaworkshop #PrivateDivision #farming #gardening #fishing #foraging #gaming #cooking New vids T/Th/Sat!
What if the best crop protectors aren’t chemicals — but the viruses living inside fungi?
In this video, we explore how mycoviruses could become powerful, self-spreading tools for sustainable agriculture — reshaping plant health from the inside out.
https://youtu.be/CGxSWkF762g?si=NERFkJY2J1bHdxFw
#fungi #mycology #agriculture #ecology
#aspergillus #education #academia
#phd_life #phdone #forest #mushrooms
#virus #mycovirus #crop #food #mycovirus #Science #nature #Farming #fungus #plants #foraging #Health #biology
‘Nature feeds us more than it floods us’: Asheville after-school program teaches kids to forage
#TalesOfTheShire #LetsPlay Ep. 32: Full affinity with Delphi, with rewards almost as sweet as she is! #lordoftherings #cozy #farmingsimulator #wetaworkshop #PrivateDivision #farming #gardening #fishing #foraging #gaming #cooking New vids T/Th/Sat!
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