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50 Times People Found Something Amazing While Foraging And Just Had To Share In This Dedicated Online Group
Strolling under a canopy of leaves, inhaling the smell of trees and earth, and watching how forests and meadows flourish with life all teach you one undeniable truth — Mother Nature is a gift that keeps on giving. Basking in the great outdoors acts as a balm in anxious times, as spending just 20 minutes connecting with the greenery can help lower stress levels. But apart from its therapeutic effect, it offers us so much more than that.
If you ever come back from the hedgerows carrying a clump of plants or emerge from the woods with a heavy handful of mushrooms and fruits, you know it can also make your stomach happy or, at least, full. And although attitudes toward foraging — identifying and harvesting wild foods — have been fearful for quite some time, this seems to be a thing of the past.
Just take a look at these two delightful and informative corners of Reddit, the 'Foraging' and 'Mushrooms' communities. Members of these online groups enthusiastically take advantage of everything their local area can offer and share their beautiful discoveries with everyone online. We wrapped up an exciting collection of pictures featuring their best finds to share with you all, so continue scrolling! Upvote your favorite ones, and if you’re a fellow forager, be sure to share your passion with us in the comments below.
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#1
My 10.5 Year Old Lab Recently Learned To Truffle Hunt. So Proud Of Him!
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#2
Had To Repost Bc Of How Cute It Is
#3
My Favorite Wild Raspberry Site Is Being Bulldozed To Build Some Houses 😭 So, I Rescued As Many Plants As I Could! ...does It Still Count As Foraging If I Transplant Foraged Plants In My Yard?
So, I rescued as many plants as I could! Does it still count as foraging if I transplant foraged plants in my yard?
#5
Found Salmon Berries, Wine Berries, Osoberries, And Red Huckle Berries All Within A 5 Minute Walk Of My Front Door!
#6
Eating My Morel Pasta Alone After Failing To Convince Any Of My Family To Try It. Somebody Please Appreciate It With Me
#7
Me With My Baskets That I Made From Foraged Willow - I Took Them To Take Pictures Now That The Willow Is Leafing
Argle Bargle 3 years ago
Me: why are her baskets empty? What is she foraging for? Ten seconds later: 🤦
#8
I Made A Acorn Shaped Mushroom Pendant
#9
Made Some Ice Cubes With Freshly Foraged Lilac. Looking Forward To Some Summer Cocktails With These!
#10
This Counts As Foraging, Right?
I drove to Maine and collected 10gal of seawater, boiled it down over the course of 3 days, and got 2 quarts of sea salt.
#11
When You Know Where The Blueberries Are
#12
Had To Get Past The Woodland Blackberry Guardian Before I Could Pick The Berries Today
#13
Salmonberry Season Is Crazy This Year!!! Yum!! I’ve Never Seen Them This Big And Tasty Before
#14
Mushrooms Are The Most Beautiful Living Thing
Irish Lassie 3 years ago
Is anyone else seeing the outline of a green bird with a long brown beak, or have I eaten way too many magic toadstools?? 🍄🤪🐸
#15
Having My Cake And Eating It Too!
#16
I Harvested Cloudberries In The Arctic Last Week!
TheElderNom 3 years ago
I love cloudberries! Warm them with a bit of sugar and eat with vanilla ice cream. Also amazing on a cheese platter.
#17
First Noble Fir Pine Cone Of The Year In Denmark. So Tender, So Delicious!
#18
Foraged Some Mushrooms Today And Then A Weird Primate Tossed Broccoli At Me
#19
Friends Dad Found This
Forty Seven Pandas 3 years ago
.. touched it and was transported to an alternate extra groovy dimension!
#20
When The Mushroom Gods Bless You With A Huge Bolete And It Turns Out To Be 100% Bug Free
#21
I Made Honeysuckle Ice Cream And It Was So Good It Almost Made Me Cry
#22
Found A Nice Little Ensemble In The Woods Today
#23
Made A Galette With Wild Blackberries, Lavender, And Chocolate Mint
#24
Thought Someone Might Enjoy !
#25
I Made Nettle + Wild Garlic Soup Today, With A Spring Garnish
#26
This Is The Amount Of Salt I Got From Rendering Down Just Under 2 Gallons Of Clean Sea Water. Banana For Scale
#27
Here In Hungary, Elderflower Is Everywhere In This Time Of The Year, So We Went Out To Get Some For My Mother's Elderflower Syrup
#28
This Is The Time Of The Year Of High Temp And Nice Grapes. Grandpa's House Has Great Bunch Of Grape
#29
Massive Bolete
Kristine Frances Bautista 3 years ago
How much room do fungi need to grow? --- As mush-room as possible.
#30
Made Fried Chicken Of The Woods Sandwich With Foraged Chicken Of The Woods
#31
Found Some Porcelain Fungus, I Haven't Tried Cooking Any Yet But They Are Fun To Look At. Anyone Tried?
#32
Stumble On A Blueberry Field
#33
Aloha From Hawaii! This Is By Far The Coolest Things I've Ever Foraged
#34
Found A Bleeding Tooth Aka Hydnellum Peckii For My First Time Last Fall! Isn't It Cool Looking?!
#35
Good Friend Found The Mother Load
#36
Spring Has Sprung
#37
I Was Just Walking Down A Trail And Saw 2 Small White Truffles Poking Out Of The Ground
I couldn't believe it when I cut it open and saw that beautiful marbling! Incredibly lucky find.
#38
Found Some Chicken
#39
Poaching Isn’t Just A Crime That Affects Wildlife
Two USFWS Federal Wildlife Officers (FWO) recently stopped palmetto berry poaching on Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. The officers recovered nine, 200 lb bags of berries that have a high market value.
#40
So Today I Have Found A Couple Dozens Of Asparagus Or So
#41
A Fungal Zombie Deer Emerges From The Leaf Litter. Please Roll For Initiative
#42
The Trifecta: Mushrooms (Porcini And Butter Boletes), Berries (Mixed Vaccinium Species), And Trout (Westslope Cutthroat). Foraging Goals While Backpacking In The Mountains Last Summer!
#43
Every 4 And 5 Leaf Clover I've Found In My Garden During Quarantine
#44
Midwestern Forager's Pb&j: Black Walnut Butter And Black Raspberry Jam
#45
This Ramp Sourdough Took Me Literally All Weekend To Make, Between Foraging The Ramp Leaves And Making The Damn Bread. Thought It Deserved To Be On My Finest China
#46
These Were All Surrounding One Dead Elm
#47
New Favorite Fermented Drink: Unripe Pinecone Wild Soda
#48
Eye Of Sauron Shroom
#49
I Made Bread From Acorn Flour, Cattail Starch, Salt, And Water. NY Z6
#50
I Got This Omelette Goody Bag When I Visited My Bff’s Homestead
#51
My First Chicken Of The Woods! 15 Lbs
#52
Found This Beauties In My Forest
#53
Never Thought I Could Combine My Favorite Summer Activities, But This Is Me Picking Blueberries On A Kayak
#54
Lemon Trees About A Mile Walk From My House Behind A Swamp. As Far As I Can Tell Nobody Else Harvests These
#55
Collected Some Wild Honey From An African Bees Nest. Got 4l Worth!
#56
Parasol Mushrooms On The Cornish Coast
Jihana 3 years ago
Those are the best! Breaded and fried like a Wiener Schnitzel. Pro tip: if you have a huge haul, you can bread and freeze them. The you can toss them in the hot oil frozen, and I promise you, you will taste no difference to fresh ones. Found a lot this year and I still have several kilos safely stored away in my freezer.
#57
Hubbs: "Why Haven't You Weeded The Yard?" Me: "Do You Mean The Salad Patio?"
#59
First Boil Of The Year, Pure Minnesota Maple Syrup!
Sue From Michigan 3 years ago
We used to do this as kids with our parents in Michigan, never ever got that much though.
#60
Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!
Here is my celebratory breakfast of pawpaw rice pudding and maple syrup sweetened sassafras tea. I collected the pawpaws and the sassafras and my parents made the maple syrup.
#61
15 Km Walk In The Arctic Tundra And I Gathered 15kg Of Porchini. Enough To Eat For The Whole Winter And Share With Neighbors. Bilberries Were My Snack
#62
My Uncle Found A Huge Puffball Mushroom
#63
I’ve Been Encouraging A Wild Strawberry Plant To Grow In Our Garden This Year. It’s Got The Tiniest Strawberries!
#64
I Always Get Jealous About All The Mushroom Picking That I Can’t Do In South Texas But At Least I Get Prickly Pear!
#65
After Three Years Of Searching I Have Finally Found My First Morel!!
#67
Wow! Chicken On A Massive Oak, My Son Was Very Excited To Check It Out
#68
The Stump Carvers Near Me Have Leveled Up
#69
Stumbled Upon Some Rose Hips On My Walk Today. Filled My Pockets Up With 700 Grams
#70
Flower And Morel Breakfast Tacos
#71
Why I Love Fall Foraging
#72
17” Wide Oyster Mushroom Collected By Me On Wednesday
#73
Sometimes You Have To Take A "Mental Health Day" And Just Get Lost In The Woods
Edda Kamphues 3 years ago
That's my kind of mental health day. Foraging or fishing. And I'm a girl...
#75
My Younger Son And I Harvested Almost A Bushel Of Very Large Chesapeake Bay Oysters Yesterday
Sunday night dinner will be fried oyster po' boys on homemade rolls with remoulade, oven potatoes, and a mess of greens from the garden.
#76
Today Was A Good Day! Brought My 71 Year Old Father Out For His First Time Picking Mushrooms
#77
Late Autumn Haul!
#78
Golden Guttation Under The Caps Of Candy Apple Boletes. Southern Illinois
#79
I Finally Painted Mushrooms On A Mushroom Using Only Mushrooms
Blond morels, painted on an artist conk, using the ink produced by shaggy mane specimens.
#80
We Found A Few Chantrels Yesterday
#82
I Walked The Dog And Came Back With Extra Stuff
#83
Amazing Find In The Smokey Mountains!
#84
Cloudberrys Above The Polar Cirkle, Norway
#85
The Ultimate Foraging Hat? Nah, Just Giant Polypore (Meripilus Giganteus)
#86
Nothing Better Than A Bucket Of Alaskan Blueberries
#87
Neighbours Garden
Saint Thomas 3 years ago
It's a very nice garden, but it's not "wild". And please don't forage it ^^
#88
Just Found This Sub From A Cross Post. Thought You Guys Would Like My Chanterelle Haul From Last Season
#90
100lb Hen Of The Woods Pull - Can’t Find Birds Like This In The Grocery Store
Irish Lassie 3 years ago
Never heard of them. Same goes with the chicken ones. Wood like to try, though. (yes, pun totally intended)
#91
It’s Oyster Season Baby!
#92
Freshest I’ve Found
#93
Prickly Pear Harvested In A Quick Makeshift Basket Today. Any Recipe Recommendations?
Edda Kamphues 3 years ago
Please tell me what to do with them. I see them everywhere, but don't know how to eat them.
#94
Good Day In The Forest
#95
Wild Bloobs! Harvested In Baskets I Made This Winter
#96
And My Favorite Season Has Started In The Arctic
#97
Beefsteak Fungus (Fistulina Hepatica) - Looks Like Premium Quality Wagyu - Tastes Delicious (After Cooking)
#98
A Few Oregon White Truffles We Found This Afternoon
Edda Kamphues 3 years ago
Boil spaghetti, add olive oil, parmesan and freshly grated truffle, a bit of pepper: best dinner every.
#100
Your Girl Foraged For The First Time
#101
Little Private Oyster Feed At An Oyster Bank In Denmark
#102
Not What I Was Hunting For, But At Least I Still Put Dinner On The Table
#103
Salmon Berries And Western Hemlock Tips
#104
Not The Biggest Yield, But Still A Fun Experience
#105
I Present To You: Tomato Of The Woods
#106
Foraged Some Cotw So I Made Japanese Chickotw Katsu. Scratch Made Curry And Double Battered Mushies
Amanda Rose 3 years ago
I have a Pavlovian response to hearing or reading the word curry. One of my favorite foods ever!
#107
So Happy With This Amanita Muscaria Var. Guessowii I Made. Polymer Clay And Acrylic Paint
#108
Hope This Fits In This Subreddit... Foraging For Carmine Dye (Cochineal Bugs)
Amanda Rose 3 years ago
My dad did this for my great grandmother! She was a weaver and dyed her own wool. Creates such a pretty color!
#109
During Midwinter In NY Z6 When There Is Little Foraging To Be Done I Like To Process The Acorns From The Year. Today I Had Acorn Bread!
setsuriseikou 3 years ago
They say you can make a coffee-like drink with roasted acorns, but what do they taste like in bread?
#110
In My Own Backyard
#111
Now For Something Different: My Sister Foraged This Summer's Cicada Shells For Her Bff's Soapmaking Business
DennyS (denzoren) 3 years ago
Whenever I see these posts it makes me think, this is what it's all about, life in general. We shouldn't be slaving behind a desk for 9 hours a day just to go home and be too tired to do anything. Rinse and repeat. We should be out there, exploring, foraging, experiencing all of life and the world. Living as best as we can. Okay...that has been my rant, back to my staff meeting at 9am.
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BoredPandaSucks 3 years ago
I discovered an old pop tart I didn't realize I had while foraging in my kitchen cabinet. Does that count?
The only Plueschopossum 3 years ago
OMG all those lovely mushroom pictures. I can feel it :D During autumn my SO and I enjoy long walks in the woods with our baskets and knives, too. Here's a picture from last weekend. 20221002_1...5d55df.jpg 
The Starsong Princess 3 years ago
Those mushrooms look amazing but be very sure you know what you are doing before you eat them because the wrong mushroom can kill you.
BoredPandaSucks 3 years ago
I discovered an old pop tart I didn't realize I had while foraging in my kitchen cabinet. Does that count?
The only Plueschopossum 3 years ago
OMG all those lovely mushroom pictures. I can feel it :D During autumn my SO and I enjoy long walks in the woods with our baskets and knives, too. Here's a picture from last weekend. 20221002_1...5d55df.jpg
The Starsong Princess 3 years ago
Those mushrooms look amazing but be very sure you know what you are doing before you eat them because the wrong mushroom can kill you.
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