Hedgehogs begin to hibernate just as the main mushroom crop begins to dwindle…
Organic Wales Articles
Jay
A fleeting glimpse of a garish jay is a common sight on a autumn mushroom foray…
Sloe
Sloes are a frequent ‘by-catch’ on forays and the next season the resulting drink makes the perfect end to a chilly expedition. The fruit of the blackthorn is justly famous as a gin flavouring and the perfect time to pick these is after their skins have been softened by the first frost. Thanks to its hard needle-sharp spikes (they can puncture tractor tyres) blackthorn is one of the best hedging materials and is therefore…
Spiders
Is there some strange link between spiders and fungi? Both emerge in force in early Autumn…
Badger
Badgers are well loved creatures, but unfortunately they have a taste to the beetle grubs which invade porcini and can devastate a potential bumper crop.
Wild strawberries
Smaller and firmer than their cultivated counterparts, wild strawberries grow in the same woodland glades which will later be adorned with delicious fungi…
Butterflies
Like fungi, insects in general suffer from poor PR – butterflies are a notable exception…
Chanterelles
Chanterelles – or girolles to give them their French culinary name – begin to flush in July and continue to flush regularly well into October…
Why Organic?
The top ten reasons to ‘go organic’
Stinging Nettles
The stinging qualities of the nettle needs no introduction, but its gastronomic qualities are as overlooked as those of our greatest wild mushrooms…
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