1. Forager 21 April 2009

   No April fool

   The late Jane Grigson didn’t think much of St. George’s mushrooms in her book The Mushroom Feast. She felt their flavour to be too strong and mealy for most tastes. Other chefs have told me that they need to be infused with something else to impart any sort of flavour at all. I am here to defend what I consider to be one of the tastiest mushrooms of the year and as a bonus, the first of the year, sometimes fruiting as early as the first week in April.

   By Clive Houlder

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2. Forager 9 September 2008

   Autumn shades

   

   As summer turns to autumn and the evenings regain a refreshing coolness, forget food shopping in the car and the supermarket. Pull on your wellies and find a well laden fruit-filled hedge. The back roads and footpaths of East Anglia are renowned for their lush hedgerows and they in turn are often full of juicy morsels packed with vitamins and good for the soul. One of the nicest early autumn fruits is the small yellow wild plum.

   By Jason Gathorne-Hardy

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3. Forager 5 August 2008

   Beach comber

   

   Last month, when a friend told me the mackerel were being caught in North Norfolk as close to me as Sheringham I decided my annual ‘walking of the channel’ at Burnham Overy Staithe was overdue.

   By Clive Houlder

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4. Forager 1 July 2008

   Edible flowers

   

   Jason Gathorne Hardy’s bucolic life is all rosy. An old piece of Suffolk folklore states that the season in which the spiny branches of the wild gorse bush bear flower is crucial to the first, teetering steps of courtship. This resilient, thick-growing plant can reach heights of up to eight feet and its fountains of yellow blossom are a common sight on the coastal heaths around me in East Suffolk as well as other parts of East Anglia.

   By Jason Gathorne Hardy

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5. Forager 19 May 2008

   Oyster Mushrooms

   

   Hunting for oyster mushrooms - pleurotus ostreatus – late last autumn, I visited several of my favourite haunts. In the wild, these mushrooms colonise dead trees which are cut down, mainly for safety’s sake and sawn up for firewood. You guessed it half my secret oyster mushroom patches might be already neatly stacked and ready to fruit in your own firewood pile.

   By Clive Houlder

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