We had a day out foraging today, not far away from home, and by the Clyde.
A quarter mile walk, along the cycle route again then Pirate saw a path into a harvested field....and we were there for a couple of hours picking blackberries/brambles, elderberries and sloes.
Deposit those in the car, then we walked a mile up to the local Co-op shop to buy lunch. Lunch in the car after walking back as it turned chilly for a while.
A walk in the other direction took us along the Lang Scots Mile a little, then down onto what was beach and dunes and now has been colonised by all sorts of plants and trees.
There we found rosehips and apples!
A small detour on the way home up to the trig point on Brown Carrick hill..and unfortunately the trig point itself has been stolen. But the views are still good, including looking over to Ardrossan where we were two days ago!!
Plenty of preserving to do, including plum jam for our neighbour who supplies us with eggs and tomatoes!
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It's funny you shared about foraging, we watching an episode of country calender yesterday where a man in Southland was doing just the same, my other half was really interested in it.
You certainly have gathered in a lot of work to be done.
It seems the problem of rudeness and worse is universal. Don't take what belongs to the people.It is theirs to enjoy, and yours, too, in passing.
What a wonderful day of foraging.
A lovely area to live in. Plenty of scrumping going on ;)
your foraging all looks excellent, mine was not so good, I found loads of elderberries, picked them, put them in sterilising fluid to clean and lots of nasty little wormy things wiggled out - I had to throw them away eeew!
Betty if I think that fruit or veges may have passengers I put them in a bowl of water that has a good dash of vinegar. That brings them all out into the open, drain, a quick rinse in clean water and they are ready to use!
You look wonderful (at the trig point)!
The blush on those pinky apples is beautiful too.
Thankyou Fresca! The wind was, shall we say, bracing!
The apples are ripe enough for a nice sharp juice, we thinned out the bigger ones and hopefully can pick more when they are riper.
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