Summer's Over
Rain Sets In Sat Sep11 Sun Sep 12 It is around this time of year I would put my (unscented) dog poo bags to good use foraging for mushrooms on Salisbury Plain. I had one spot where I was able to find a good number of a member of the Agaricus family. I did get them checked by an expert to be sure I knew that what I was picking was safe to eat, but can't recall the name. It was a type of field or horse mushroom. Occasionally I'd find a puffball. Even better! The mushroom season has started in BC and I've already spotted some Chanterelle and about a dozen other types which I don't recognize. We have a local chap in Gibsons who trades under the name of Shaggy Jack (aka Jody), who runs foraging courses, so I have booked onto an October course for a five-hour tutored forage. I've decided it's no longer safe to stick with the 'perpendicular test' when foraging for mushrooms. The one where if I'm still vertical the next morning they must be ...