Dry harvest list - PEP BB foraging.sand.dry

I was lucky enough to have my first chicken of the woods be an absolute monster, and now I understand why they're so beloved. I came home with nearly 10 pounds of it and ended up drying it all.

A mix of random mushrooms I've harvested this month that total just over 5 pounds.


Small Puffballs: 10.6oz
Wood Ear: 8.2oz & 1.07 lb/oz(16.07)
Reishi: 1.06 lb/oz(16.06)
Shrimp of the woods: 14.9oz
Elm Mushrooms1.08lb/oz(16.08)

Totalling 81.91oz or 5.11lbs

Winter, rosehip time!
Down at the river I found lots of rosehips, so after the first frost I went down there with a bag and a scale.
1 pound is 454 grams, I made sure I had a little more :) I washed them and let them air dry.

During the drying process, I did some research and learned about the irritating hairs inside the fruits, and I read many different options to deal with them: some remove the hairs when the rosehips are still fresh, some do it when they're fully dry, some leave the hairs in depending on what the rosehip will be used for, etc.
I decided to do the extra step and removed the hairs (as much as possible). When the fruits were dry, I crushed them with a garlic press and sifted them using a fine sieve. That didn't work at all (after 4 shakes the hairs had completely clogged up the fine holes of the sieve), so switched to a sieve with big holes. After at least half an hour of sieving (took more time than I had expected), most hairs and seeds had fallen through the sieve. I like the end product very much, and the seeds will go in the ground.

I'm stocking up on my invasive mint for tea. This is a chocolate mint variety that has invaded every spare spot of earth it can. I hung them up to air dry and stored them in some mason jars.

Here is mint growing wild in the pasture being air dried and stored for later.

Nettles!!

I haven't ever found enough wild mint for this bb. Until we went currant picking this week! I was so excited!! I picked a bag full and dried it right away.