Mushroom foraging on the Mendips
Learn to identify common edible and medicinal fungi, and their lookalikes.
Join us for an autumn fungi foray in the wonderful Mendip hills, near Bristol and Bath. The exact location will be emailed a few days before the event, but you can use Priddy as a rough location in the meantime.
Please note: this is an identification forage and we won’t be harvesting mushrooms, so please don’t bring baskets or containers as you won’t need them. This is to protect the environment and our fungi friends from over-exploitation.
What you’ll learn on this foray …
🍄Fantastic Fungi
Safe identification of mushrooms, with a focus on common, widespread edible and medicinal fungi that you can go on to forage by yourself.
Discover the lookalikes and poisonous fungi and the importance of 100% accurate identification. If in doubt, leave it out!
We’ll also talk more widely about the fascinating hidden world of mushrooms, and their importance in our lives and futures - it’ll blow your mind!
Medicinal fungi; a subject that’s starting to get a lot of attention now, and for good reason! Some fungi have bonafide medicinal superpowers, so we’ll be on the lookout for those too.
🌳Trees and plants
Fungi are super connected to the rest of the natural world, and learning about those connections is key to identification for mushroom foragers.
We’ll look at trees and plants that share these fungal connections and how you can use this knowledge to find, ID, and forage fungi in the wild.
You’ll learn about the history and folklore of fungi and plants, and their uses in bushcraft and wilderness survival.