Cooking and foraging wild mushrooms in the forest

Cooking Wild mushrooms

Wild mushrooms? I love foraging for the same reason I enjoy looking for tracks; it slows me down. It pays to be careful where you place your feet when looking for mushrooms, as I learnt when John Rensten took us on a wild mushroom hunt, near Lyndhurst in the New…

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Mushroom foraging and cooking course in the New Forest

Mushroom foraging and cooking course

Mushroom forage and cook with John Rensten and Coastal Survival. New Forest. October 2017. On the 14th of October I had the opportunity to continue my personal development training and attend a mushroom foraging and cooking, identification course in the idyllic woodland of The New Forest. The course was hosted…

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Wild first aid – introduction.

Wild first aid, seaweed plaster, coastal survival

Introduction from the next handbook I’m writing (raw and unedited) Wild first aid. Before you step out the door, so to speak, you really do want to have some basic knowledge of first aid, if your stepping out into the wilder parts, you really should have an advanced knowledge of…

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