Well it’s been a wet and dismal summer but as with all things there is a silver lining its an early start to the mushroom season. Just in case you think mushrooming is a bit dull get this from the front of our mushrooming guide: “get it wrong and you or your loved ones could die a horrible death” the Deathcap is quite common and a single specimen is quite enough to kill untreated poisoning has a 50 ->90% death rate eek !

So our first foray was merely a gather some samples and see what we could indenitfy with no intention of eating any (although we also gathered some brambles we do intend to eat!). We were pretty confident that we collected several edible and at least two poisinous varieties. See pictures for what we found….