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Foraging in September – Free food in the wild

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Foraging for free food in the wild is a fantastic way to bulk out your meals for free.

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It’s also great exercise, great for connecting with nature and great for boosting your self-esteem as you start to discover the wealth of free food that’s just poking out of the ground or dangling off a tree in your local area… if you only know what to look for!

Below is a short list of the kinds of foods that are ready to find and pick in September, each item in the list is a link that will show you a description on Wikipedia, so that you may identify the food correctly before you pick and eat it.

Be safe when foraging, make sure that you are picking something edible and not something poisonous! It is a good idea to use a guide book or to research online before you go foraging. For example, try looking up each of the below on Wikipedia to find an accurate image and description.

Foraging in September:

Beech nuts     Bilberry     Black mustard     Blackberries     Blewit     Cauliflower fungus     Cep     Chanterelle     Clover flowers     Crab apples     Dandelion roots     Elderberries     Fairy-ring Champignon     Field mushroom     Giant puffball mushroom     Hawthorn berries     Hazelnut/Cobnuts     Heather flowers     Hedgehog fungus     Honey fungus     Hop fruits     Horse mushroom     Inkcaps     Jack-by-the-hedge     Juniper     Parasol mushroom     Poppy     Raspberries     Rosehip    Rowan berries     Saffron milk cap     Sea beet     Shaggy cap     Velvet shank     Wild service tree     Wild strawberry

 

I recommend the following books about foraging for free food – they help you to identify, harvest, prepare and then preserve your findings:

My favourite is ‘Food for Free‘, because it is a pocket-sized guide that you can take out foraging.

 
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