Friday, August 5, 2016

Small scale breeding and catching gammarus pulex - scuds

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Freshwater shrimps (scuds) are mostly sold dead and dried as food for fish such as koi carp and  are supposedly edible for humans too . They...
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Friday, July 25, 2014

Eating Garden Snails (Cornu aspersum previously Helix aspersa)

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I've set up a box for snails and it's currently got about 100 inhabitants. Among the plant pots there's also a tray of soil (w...
Friday, March 1, 2013

Dying Socks with Cortinarius sanguinius (Blood-red Cortinarius)

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Mostly dried out at work on a hot pipe but I finished the drying in a pan with a saucer of silica gel beads and lid on top...
Saturday, February 16, 2013

Eating Scarlet Elfcup (Sarcoscypha sp.)

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These were very good mushrooms to eat: I don't know similar species but I GUESS here in the UK they are a safe choice just from the la...
Sunday, February 3, 2013

Smoking Catnip (Nepeta cataria)

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Embarrassing as it is, I tried this last night due to the fact I'm a social recluse and have no weed contacts... I had no skins so empti...
Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Calocybe gambosa - St George's mushroom

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names; Calocybe gambosum, St George's Mushroom, [1] IDENTIFICATION: A distinctive spring species whose name comes from its appearance ar...
Friday, November 5, 2010

Field Blewit, Lepista saeva

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AKA: Clitocybe saeva (saeva means fierce, outrageous, angry or strong), Lepista personata (personata means disguised, pretended or false) ID...