Curious in Nature

29/09/2024

There are four remaining places for our special wild mushroom forage and tasting session at Finlaystone Estate on Wednesday - grab your place by clicking the link below!

18/09/2024

Indulge in glorious autumn abundance with a Wild Mushroom Forage and Tasting Session at Finlaystone Country Estate. With a wild food foray followed by a cosy tasting session in a fairy-lit cottage, It’s going to be something really special! I hope you can join us ✨🍄🍄‍🟫

12/09/2024

Curiosity rules at the British Mycological Society joint foray this week. The highlands are pure magic and the mushrooms are out of this world!

Curious to learn more about the fabulous kingdom of fungi? Come along to a Curious in Nature event and prepare to be amazed, entertained and inspired! 🐌🍄🍄‍🟫

25/08/2024

Who else gets foraging ‘jingles’ stuck in their head while out collecting? What are your daft wee foraging ditties?

My recent hits include:

Mr Loverman - Chaga! 🌳

Wild Raspberry beret 🎵 (by The Prince? 🍄‍🟫😅)

Mycelium you’re breaking my heart 💔 (when I can’t find any mushrooms )

When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that’s a morel! 🍄‍🟫

And to the tune of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ Red Right Hand

🎶On a gathering spree comes a plucky woman, stacks of black-berries in her red right hand! 🎶

pals, you’ve got to have a few more 😄

25/08/2024

Who else gets foraging ‘jingles’ stuck in their head while out collecting? What are your daft wee foraging ditties?

My recent hits include:

Mr Loverman - Chaga! 🌳

Wild Raspberry beret 🎵 (by The Prince? 🍄‍🟫😅)

Mycelium you’re breaking my heart 💔 (when I can’t find any mushrooms )

When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that’s a morel! 🍄‍🟫

And to the tune of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ Red Right Hand

🎶On a gathering spree comes a plucky woman, stacks of black-berries in her red right hand! 🎶

Association of Foragers pals, you’ve got to have a few more 😄

04/07/2024

There are some deadly poisonous ☠️ mushrooms flourishing in our woodlands and pastures, this is enough to make most folks avoid wild mushrooms altogether 🍄🍄‍🟫

But you and I both know that there’s a whole world of delicious, super-healthy, easy to identify, awesome, treasure to be found!

Don’t panic! To get started, you just need to know the distinctive and delicious from the deadly. Everything else can wait.

Join me for an absolute beginner’s introduction and gain the skills and confidence to safely and sustainably pick some of the best common delicious, edible mushrooms in Europe!

Mushroom walks are live and ready to book now. Dates will be added, so if you can’t make it to one of these, send me a DM and I’ll let you know when new sessions drop 😎

Do you want to find and harvest delicious wild and traditionally medicinal mushrooms but feel concerned about accidentally kil...

26/06/2024

There are still places left to join my foraging course at Cashel Forest this Saturday. Enjoy wee wild tasters and samples while learning about wild food, brewing, infusing and more - There’s so much to discover!

04/06/2024

Summer wine brewing time! 🐌🥂🍾

24/05/2024

Monica ‘Mo’ Wilde Forager is a hero of mine - Thanks for sharing Curious in Nature Mo!

20/05/2024

Mushrooms are coooool 😎 come to the woods with me to learn more about them 🍄🍄‍🟫🍄🍄‍🟫🍄

If you cultivate a mushroom in a petri bowl on agar agar, its actual ′′ shape ′′ becomes visible. The essential part of a mushroom, the Mycel, is usually hidden from our eye. What we perceive as a ′′ mushroom ′′ is only its transient fruit body.
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I bet you love this group Odd & Strange But Interesting & Mesmerizing 🔥

13/05/2024

Thanks to the folks who joined me for a Curious Adventure at Mugdock Park on Saturday. The weather was glorious and so were the plants!

As requested, here are a few pictures of some of the things we saw on the day, plus some examples of the poisonous ☠️ lookalikes to watch out for! 🐌