You might like this blooper reel (be warned, I do raise my voice to tell her to shut up in this one): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-f87mFsSkzek.html
If I was a child, my imagination would be overwhelmed. Even as a 60yr old adult my mind is whirling. Thank you for showing us what we have no access to, yet in our minds we can wander there. Thank you, kind sir.
You are such an interesting guy . I love the variety on your channel and the education that comes with it. I'm totally envious that you have the New forest to enjoy. Lucky man
Yes I very much agree magnificent channel so educational love it and some Amazing scenery to I love the countryside and everything about it it wonderful x
The green wood cup is such a rich beautiful color, lovely to see. I'm stuck at home with a broken leg. Thanks for taking us along on your woodland walks! I feel like I'm right there.
If you like this kind of stuff, I highly recommend Yellow Elanor and Learn Your Land. They make relaxing and educational foraging content, and it might even help you be able to do this kind of stuff if you don't already
I have lived away from the new forest for a while now, I love watching this as it brings back good memories of the beautiful new forest scenery. especial the blackberries. I have fond memories of picking blackberries with my Nana and then making blackberry and apple crumble.
For those interested in the purple mushroom found, I Googled the name and glad I did. It's a rare mushroom to find. The page I found said this about it's 'culinary uses' : 'Although many authorities state that the Violet Webcap, Cortinarius violaceus, is a good edible mushroom, there are at least two sound reasons for not gathering this species. The first is its rarity: many seasoned forayers with decades of fungi hunting behind them have never seen this beautiful mushroom, and so unless a sample is required for detailed study its seems wrong to remove any from their natural habitat. The second reason for shunning this and all other members of the genus Cortinarius is that quite a lot of them are seriously poisonous and a few have proven track records as deadly killers (Cortinarius rubellus and Cortinarius orellanus in particular contunue to take lives every year). If it has a cortina (cobweb-like veil) over the gills when young, my advice is not to try eating it. '
I just wanted to reach out and thank you. I've just gone through a terrible personal tragedy, and haven't slept much in the past two days. Your videos are the only thing keeping me from being truly a miserable wreck right now, and reminding me there's still so much I have left to do and look forward to, and my Ginger would want me to enjoy whatever time I have left, even if it has to be without her waiting for me to come back home to her. So if you ever find yourself getting frustrated and discouraged about RU-vid and it's constantly shifting almighty algorithm just remember that there are some of us out there who appreciates you for you, and everything you share with us is another precious memory we get to hold. Thanks very much for everything, I hope you are well and having a great day!
Thank you, thank you for this video! This is such a great video to watch specially at a time like this where many like myself are sheltering in place and staying at home.
Thanks - I am hoping there is a lot of stuff like this in my back catalogue that will help people get through these times. I am missing so much of the outdoors in spring myself.
Man, this really makes me want to go foraging. I never did it before with the exception of berry picking and mashing em with earthworms for protein. I think I'll skip the earthworms this time round.
Your videos are so interesting and unique, and I was really looking forward to checking out your daughters channel, guess it no longer exists - but I'm glad you've kept making content - it really is good quality stuff.
It could potentially be, but you tell by the colour it bruises and the frills underneath. If it bruises any colour other than brown, it is 100% poisonous.
@@Dynamikcheese Well, I guess it has been a while, but I am certain. Also, yellow stainers (the mushroom species, which stains yellow), and I have done my research, are extremely poisonous, and will kill you.
This is such a lovely video. As someone who can't really access such wilderness yet, this video has been so enjoyable to listen to and experience. You are so knowledgeable about fungi and plants and learning about them as you trek with your dog is so soothing. Feels like I'm watching David Attenborough. Thank you so much for sharing these videos with us. I look forward to more :)
I saw the crocs in the video and wondered about the 15 years being accurate ;P Also the daughter's channel's closed apparently. Shame. I was wondering what was gonna be on there. Probably artsy stuff, I guess.
Of all the plants you find and show us I finally spotted one and named it before you did. The sundew! They grow near me. I was very surprised by how small they are.
Great little walk and Info Thanks, some interesting stuff too, Loved it when your dog went whappy, There is alot of Places you can get lost Up The North East (Kielder) and West (Lake District) and Pennine & Dales areas aswell as Exmoor, Dartmoor and the Yorkshire Moors, Sherwood Forest and The New Forest has it's big area's too, If the Americans wanna see some nice countryside Wales and Scotland are pretty good places to start ;)
Why doesn't this hey more views? I binge you walking around in nature and doing cooking stuff aswell. I just love it lol and it's what I like your channel for. So diverse your channel and it's hugely under rated
I'm glad you were able to get your oyster mushrooms in the end,, I loved the sundew plants I've been trying to get some from various garden centers and nursery's, but with no luck,, they are beautiful to look at, and great for getting rid of flys and unwanted pests, we don't live near a forest, and wish I knew where I could get them in a forest, that would be awesome,I've a nice collection of cacti, and succulents, it would be great to have around them protecting my cacti!!!!great video, take care and stay safe.
Oh wow what a beautiful forest and Eva running around in this video was having me in stitches she is so funny! Amazing place for all things beautiful brilliant! I so love this channel it's just Amazing x 😁👍
Nyom nyom!! So glad your patience was rewarded. Really enjoyed to watch your adventures in the forest with Eva... Thanks for sharing your wealth of information!! 🙏 I love your ethos of always leaving some for nature and who might come behind 💟 I didn't get to watch your other videos yet (although I will soon...) but you say 'try to' dry some. I can recommend the Excalibur 9 tray dehydrator with timer for preservation for your winter stash...not just mushrooms but tomatoes, pears, apples, figs, and all kinds of things like seed crackers, fruit leathers and things that cost the earth in health food shops. I invested in one a few years ago and it works a lot at this time of the year!!
The violet mushroom is "safe" to eat if that identification is sound, but very bitter-tasting, so I wouldn't. There's a process to extract the purple colouring for it that was used as a natural purple food colouring for some time, but the couple of explanations I found of it didn't work out for me. I'm sure I was just doing it wrong. Even if you like the prospect of bitter mushrooms, I wouldnt forage it myself though: in my area, at least, there's several very poisonous mushrooms that look similar. Not worth the risk.
It's great to see someone in touch with nature. I remember going through the new forest many years ago. I now live in the USA where there is some very nice countryside. I do miss some of the UK countryside.
I grew up foraging & eating what you call an “earth ball” mushroom, I’m now 41, we all try to get them every season, I’m in in MT 🇺🇸 But we call them puff ball mushrooms because when they’ve gone to far, the beautiful yummy off white innards rots & then like most organic things turns to dust, but the ball opens a hole in the top & waits to be stepped on, to spread its pores. Wild to me unless we have a different species, that some are missing out on such literal HUGE delicious mushrooms, again, maybe the ones my friends & whole family have been harvesting for decades are indeed different? Love the vids!
It's interesting just how many plants/fungi there are in common between where you are and where I am in Louisiana. The bracken ferns, wax myrtle, chanterelles, beech, oak, holly, sundews, etc. are all present in Louisiana, even if they are slightly different species. I've also found quite a few oyster mushrooms growing on fallen beech trees in my area, it's almost uncanny how similar the sight of the beech tree covered with clusters of oyster mushrooms is compared to what I've seen in person 7,400 km away from where this was filmed.
You know what? I like these videos a lot. You’re very wholesome and give us interesting facts, and I’m just very curious about the history of anything, really, and mushrooms are a very nice historical food and plant!
Here is some info about that mushroom we saw on your foraging video in the forest. Cortinarius violaceus, commonly known as the violet webcap or violet cort, is a fungus in the webcap genus Cortinarius native across the Northern Hemisphere. The fruit bodies are dark purple mushrooms with caps up to 15 cm (6 in)
Those felled beech trees... could they have succumbed to a lightning strike perhaps? Do you get lightning storms in the area. Strangely enough, here in Alaska, lightning is quite rare. Only during the heaviest of downpours, and even then just small claps of thunder afterward. Growing up in Pennsylvania, Summer was rife with lightning storms. Even the occasional twister.
I’ve been watching a lot of your food and foraging videos as of late. They’re always so wonderful, informing, and engaging. This one with the one hollow tree and footage with your kids playing around it made me tear up (happy tears)
The oyster mushrooms that grow on my trees in the northern Dordogne, are usually a charcoal grey, on top! However, they have been absent for several years now, probably due to changes in the recent weather. We get some years when mushrooms of all sorts appear everywhere, and then several others where there is almost none. .
I have eaten puffballs before. When they are solid white all the way through, they are okay to consume. You just have to pick them very early to get them in that stage. They have been known to cause upset tummies in some people
I schooled in Lymington from ages 13 - 15 and a half Now 50yrs old...Hated the school as borded there was a council run boarding school...Nice staff Cack Kids
This an amazing kind of video. I love this channel so much lol I live in Ontario, Canada, and I can't wait to get out and do some exploring just like this with my wife (and maybe a new canine companion).
I'd just like to say a big thank you mate! I'm an Arboricultural student and part of my course is fungus and plant identification. Your videos are really helping me out I appreciate it!
I was watching this on my telly last night and I think there is a little fox or other animal in the tree trunk from 4.00! You can see its eyes shining! It could just be suggestion and I'm seeing things though...
Thank you for this video. It's nice to see this on your channel after binge watching all the scam bait videos ;) The memory of your children made me smile, I look forward to many memories of my nephew and niece. I love nature and look forward to sharing my interests with them. Thanks again.
One time in the forest, there was this HUGE mushroom (looked about 3-4 feet long) it kinda looked like chicken of the woods, but I couldn’t tell. What was the mushroom species called, if it wasn’t chicken of the woods?
We’ve got a combined beech tree near us, it’s honestly the largest tree I’ve ever seen, but idk how tall it is, it’s just really wide, I’d say 4-5 trees in width
... I hate mushrooms but love these videos anyhow 😅 Mainly because I find they're great for pictures, but I never really venture out in the woods myself haha
Great video! Thanks. Sorry for the basic/silly question, but a lot of the oyster mushrooms looked very fresh. What is the problem with brushing the fungus gnats off and simply cooking them well. This assumes you do not mind eating a little frass and larvae. :) Thaanks.
Mostly aesthetics really - I am not averse to the idea of eating insects, but I prefer to do so more deliberately than just having them in my food as contamination. I've actually eaten oyster mushrooms that I discovered to be bug-ridden while I was eating them - the gnat larvae are sort of gritty. Also, infested specimens are pretty difficult to preserve by natural drying
17:24 For some reason this reminds me of visiting, about fifteen years ago, the primary school I attended, to find there was still _one_ teacher who had taught there when I was a student, ending in 1990, and she mentioned to me that the next autumn, the daughter of a girl who was in my grade one class would be starting grade one. The older I get, the clearer it becomes... _tempus fugit, ergo carpe diem!_
