French foragers unite!

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French foragers unite!

Editor - France Magazine 01/10/2008, 16:21

Bonjour Forum-users,

It's October, which means France's countryside is laden with goodies to pick.

I'm after some recommendations for good areas to go and pick mushrooms, blackberries, walnuts etc etc. Where do you go? what do you pick? What do you make with it?

What do you like about picking your own produce?

Anyone involved in the vendanges?

Tell all - I can't wait to hear.

Thanks!

Carolyn,

Editor, France Magazine

FRANCE Magazine, Britain and North America's best-selling magazine about France since 1990.

Re: French foragers unite!

woolybanana 01/10/2008, 16:24
Carolyn, there were very disturbing fotos in one of the French papers of people foraging in the bins outside shops to get food to live. I presume these do not qualify for your interest.

Re: French foragers unite!

Junlesley 01/10/2008, 17:18
I've got sloes to make sloe vodka, blackberrys to make jam, comfery to make a fertiliser for my vegetables, apples, chestnuts, elderberrys to make elderberry jelly and mixed with apples and blackberrys make another lovely jam, mushrooms from our garden which we know are edible, cant think of anything else at the moment.

June Price
Priceless Pets

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Re: French foragers unite!

Frederick 01/10/2008, 17:26

Guy next doors land has other side of his hedge and therefor at the road side a great crop of blackberries growing ..Last week I noticed they were ripe when I left my car in the road ....My wife was in the garden so I called out .." Lot of big blackberries ready to p;ick out here " We assume our neighbour who speaks good English heard the call and rallied the troops ! By the time my wife went out with her bowl there were two people already out there picking and a guy with a set of steps coming down the road for the high ones .....We still got enough for a blackberry and apple crumble that evening and one put in the freezer ...The hedges are full of them this year .....

Re: French foragers unite!

suein56 01/10/2008, 18:54

Editor - France Magazine wrote:

Tell all - I can't wait to hear.

Thanks!

Carolyn,

Editor, France Magazine

Whoops - perhaps I have been here too long as I read the title as 'French forgers unite ...'

Oh dear ...

Sue Confused [8-)]

Computing - it's another world

Re: French foragers unite!

odile 01/10/2008, 19:32
ah, les champignons - la saison commence- but foragers watch out for the hunters!

Re: French foragers unite!

sweet 17 01/10/2008, 19:39

woolybanana wrote:
Carolyn, there were very disturbing fotos in one of the French papers of people foraging in the bins outside shops to get food to live. I presume these do not qualify for your interest.

Wooly, I don't want to appear as though I'm always chastising you. But, you know bl***y well that that is NOT what the editor wants to hear!

Oh God, how have your parents brought you and your brother and Randy up? They have a lot to answer for! Stick out tongue [:P]

"You are the pancake queen, young and sweet, only seventeen"

By Clair with apologies to ABBA

Re: French foragers unite!

woolybanana 01/10/2008, 19:47
I was a bit disturbed though by the fluffiness of the message (sorry mods)

Re: French foragers unite!

Chancer 01/10/2008, 21:07
Does she really want to go and pick them or write an article about it?

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