Category Archives: Foraging

It’s Shrooming season!

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The act of mushroom foraging is a treasure hunt combined with meditation. You go tramping through the forest, focussed on the ground beneath your feet, and regularly pause to give thanks (and pick a mushroom or three).

The wind is above, moving through the trees, it’s oh so quiet, and all there is in the world is you, the pine needles, your knife and basket, and the vast network of mycelium beneath your feet.

And at the end of all that, you get to feast!  Oh mushroom season, we’ve missed you…  Read More »

Wild Weed Paper by Wild Stories

A weed may be defined as ‘a plant out of place’. And one persons’ unwanted plant may be another’s medicine, food, soil builder or erosion controller.

Recently Sydney artist Diego Bonetto has been working on wild weed paper: hand-made paper embedded with hand-harvested weed seeds of many and varied species found in the Sydney basin… Read More »

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