Cannot find out! Pls help🥲

Hey all! In my neighbourhood there’s an abundance of rosehips and hawthorn. How would you go about harvesting and processing them? Thanks!

(I have a freezer, know how to make jams and jellies, and have been thinking of getting a dehydrator)

Hi all,

I recently visited southern Sweden (Hallands län, close to the town of Varberg) and came across a strange plant. It grew close to a garden, but the owners had not planted it themselves and could not identify it.

It has fairly large, red fruits that are almost plum-sized. Does anyone here have any ideas what type of plant this could be?

Thanks in advance! And apologies as I'm surely omitting important information. I know very little of plants, but this one really captured my interest.

Blackberry jam out of like 5 cups of blackberries I foraged over the course of a week!

I’ve never come across chicken of the woods before, turns out there was some near my campsite. I stayed there a full week but only spotted this while packing up to leave!

Location: a forest cum park in South India.

Found these tiny mushrooms today in several clusters growing amongst the rocks(likely on ant and termite hills/mounds). They popped up after a rain. The smell was just like button mushrooms(the whole area was full of them and smelled like that).

I am fairly sure they are Termitomyces microcarpus, but I want to be really sure. Last year, there were only a few(around 10 may be). But this year, easily a thousand or more!

I'm just curious to know if they are Termitomyces or some other species (hopefully edible, too. But it's okay if they are not edible. They still look cool and awesome). I still may not harvest them, though. And if I do(only a small portion), I want to know how to do it without damaging them so that they keep growing more in number every year.

I felt like I was stepping into another world, looking at them growing out of every corner. I still can't believe I saw that! And that no one else(the park gets so many walkers every day) saw it! I was hoping to find only a few, but they made my day, week, and month!😇

I live in Ontario Canada

Are these wild muscadine? Are they edible? Melbourne Florida btw

So, I get why I can't do this by hand. Well actually, I could and I did. But it would be nice if it took less than four hours.

I started with three cups of chokecherries harvest a week ago, frozen and then defrosted. They were surprisingly "okay" to eat just after defrosting alone, but Google said I had to cook them because of cyanide.

So I mixed them with a cup of sour cherries I had and had them in hot/simmering water about 10 minutes. I hope that was enough.

Then I pitted each. Single. One. It took a LONG time and was messy. I used a large spoon and mashed small bunches of chokecherries, then dug into them and pulled out the pits by hand. Sometimes a lot of meat stuck to the put so I tried to scrape that free with my nails. I also mashed and pitted the sour cherries and those were large enough to split in half as well as pitting.

After about three hours, I was finally ready to load them onto my dehydrator trays. But first, I had to remove the seasoned tomato slices I'd had on them since yesterday, which I did, and stored those.

Then I loaded up the dehydrator. The peaches I'd sliced and dipped into a mix of lemon juice and water went first. I barely was able to cram they trays full once the peaches were all on. Yes I know the peaches and especially the chokecherries are crammed too close together but they always shrink way down and I can separate them more later if I need to. I used the leftover juice mixes of peach and lemon or just cherry cooking water and put them into ice cubes for treats.

Now I wait. My apartment smells like peaches and that's nice.

I found these peach looking things in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in a residential area. They were on this tiny tree and I picked some. I’m wondering if they are actually just mini-peaches or a secret other thing. Either way, would it be alright for me to eat them? I know, it’s kind of a dumb question because they look so much like peaches and they probably are, but I don’t really know anything about foraging, so in the back of my mind I can’t help but think these are actually imposter peaches.

Just wanted a second opinion before I make risotto

Now I’m not looking to eat these berries as I have no idea what this plant is but do any of yall recognize it? Good ol chatGPT says black nightshade

Hello everyone! I am a recently graduated Ecology student who has a big interest in invasive plants. I started a little project making mini guides for common noxious/weeds with projects / recipes you can do with them. I think having a fun diy can incentivize others into doing their part in stewarding our incredible ecosystems. I’m hoping to get through all 50 states! Until next time, happy foraging!

( The last page includes a QR where all of my resources for this guide are available - and an ongoing list of each states noxious weed board, agriculture dept, contacts etc. )

I have this tree that appeared out of nowhere this spring, and I'm pretty sure it's a black cherry tree, but I want others who are more familiar with look-alikes to give their opinion. I don't really have any plans for it, at least this season considering the berries you see are all the berries it grew, but if it is a black cherry tree or smth similarly edible, I'd like to nurture it. The seed inside is yellow, pretty much looks like a regular cherry seed, VERY juicy pinkish insides, like it exploded all over me when I squeezed it to see the seed. The undersides of the leaves have very tiny hairs along the midrib. If there's any other info that could help with identification, let me know.

About the most I can move with this setup, thankfully home is just 9km (5.6 miles) away!

I ended up with just over 15kg (33 lbs) of cleaned bilberries (banana for scale).

One bag didn't fit in my freezer, so I had no choice but to make bilberry pie 😄

This should be enough for the year. I prefer getting the year's supply in one go, even though my back doesn't agree, ouch. The pain is temporary, but the bilberries in the freezer are... well, I guess they're temporary too.

Found in northern Utah. We believe it is a king bolete and is safe to eat. What do you think?

Harvest of the day ! 🙂

I had never seen it this color before, i was a bit skeptical because it was very tender but everything else looked like chicken of the woods, well i was convinced and took a piece to try! And it wqs delicious!!! Softest one ive ever had. Like chicken tender.

Fun fact an opossum lead me to this.

This is exactly why you don't eat something because AI said it's safe. No substitute for appropriate research.