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Foraged by Fern Wild foods, botanical drinks, foraging walks and workshops. Hello, I'm Fern! Please keep an eye on my page for walks and workshops!
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I've been foraging around sussex for over ten years, inspired by my dad, an avid mushroom forager and wonderful teacher. I make delicious seasonal foods, exciting botanical drinks and the occasional lotion or cream from foraged ingredients.

It’s my birthday tomorrow! 😮 and it’s so true that the older you get, the faster time flies 🕊️ I still feel like I’m in ...
06/10/2026

It’s my birthday tomorrow! 😮 and it’s so true that the older you get, the faster time flies 🕊️ I still feel like I’m in my mid twenties but somehow I’m 34 all of a sudden?!

I am so grateful for every single year though. And to everyone who has spent a moment weaving their timeline with mine, visiting, chatting, laughing, foraging, loving, wondering, sharing woes or simply smiling! ☀️

I’m grateful to this time I have to learn and grow and focus on what feeds and nourishes my soul! 🌻 Every year is such a gift and I have a good feeling 34 is going to be the best one yet! ✨

Separate note: I feel I have been ‘bad’ at social media recently for some reason, not very consistent? I don’t know! 🤷‍♀️ But I have also had the absolute PLEASURE of meeting lots of people this week who have told me how much they love my videos and recipes and now I’m feeling all inspired ✨

So after a week of hanging out with lovely nature girls (SO much love Skool Beanz CIC Jess Gough Grace Mandeville Cindy Tapscott ) and hosting mushroom hunting workshops and taking lots of time for wonderfully slow and swimmy dog walks, I am READY ⭐️

I’m feeling a real need to slow down recently, probably because of the shift in seasons 🍂 so although I know the little short, snappy, stingy videos do best, I’m going to focus my time on soft and slow videos, because that’s what I feel my heart wants to create! 🧡 And I hope you like them!

This week I’m planning on trying alder catkin ‘pepper’ and harvesting the last of the ripe hawthorns for harissa! So I’ll share the videos with you as and when I make them! 📸

Every year I think to myself, maybe I’ll do a little ‘meet the mushroom’ series 🍄 with a video on each mushroom I find t...
27/09/2026

Every year I think to myself, maybe I’ll do a little ‘meet the mushroom’ series 🍄 with a video on each mushroom I find through the season because every single one has such DAZZLING CHARACTER! ✨

Well, I say that, there are also the little brown jobbies 😂 we won’t bother with those! But then I worry it’s too boring? What do you reckon? Would you enjoy a mushroom series, or are you only interested in the edible ones? 🍴

Anyway, here are some of the amazing mushrooms I found today! It’s safe to say the season has well and truly started! ✨ If you’d like to take yourself off on a magical mushroom adventure, here are some tips for you:

🌳 Find the forest! Ideally, head to some ancient woodland, with lots of moss and a good diversity of trees! I find a combination of oak, pine and beech consistently offers lots of treasure!

🌧️ Keep an eye on the weather! I would recommend heading out around 3-5 days after some very heavy rain. Main mushroom season is September - November in the UK

🔎 Look around! Don’t just look on the forest floor. Check fallen logs, dead branches and even the trunks of living trees

📸 Take photos! Even if you don’t know what you’ve found, take a picture. Photograph the top, the underside and the stem if you can. You can then have a go at identifying it when you get home

❤️ Just enjoy it! You don’t need to know the name of every mushroom you find. Take your time, look closely and appreciate just how extraordinary these little organisms are

Of course, if you’re collecting anything to eat, make absolutely sure it’s been positively identified! Some poisonous mushrooms look remarkably similar to edible ones!

I’d LOVE to know what you’re finding on your woodland adventures! 🍄✨

What a lovely, silly, smiley day! Seeing lots of wonderful people, and eating delicious food. 🌱 It’s taken me a really l...
18/09/2026

What a lovely, silly, smiley day! Seeing lots of wonderful people, and eating delicious food. 🌱 It’s taken me a really long time, but I’m really feeling so settled into Somerset recently 🏡 ☀️

There’s SO many amazing projects going on, connecting people to the land, growing amazing produce and sharing such special messages. 🌷 I would LOVE it if you tag any cool little projects below so we can all discover and support more!

And here are some of MY favourites, who I got to see all in one day?!

Skool Beanz CIC My lovely friend Lara (in the green jumpsuit!) runs a gardening club for kids in Yeovil and has another one running at Yeo Valley Gardens this weekend. It’s SO important to spark a love of nature in little ones and she does it in SUCH an amazing, colourful and cool way. IDOL. 😍

Lisa // Rebel Patch The incredibly creative and fun Lisa (on the left in the third picture) is based in Bristol and runs sustainable sewing and patch making workshops! 🧵 Sitting down and reusing scraps of fabric to make a cool patch was so relaxing and satisfying. My patch was made from cut out pieces of an old teatowel! Can you guess what it was before it said pies?

The Pony Farm Bus is a super cool double decker bus which has been transformed into a classroom upstairs, with a mini-garden in the bay window, and drive about teaching kids about where their food comes from! 🌳 And they were dishing up some delicious garden delights - like this plate of home grown veggies, salad cream, celery salt and focaccia! YUM! 🤤

And a big shout out to Coral 🌻 and Leigh Johnstone who I had the pleasure of hanging out with all day! And everyone else who I met throug the day! Oh and Monty Don of course! 😂 All in all, a lovely day out Yeo Valley Organic Garden 💚

Hope you’ve got a lovely weekend coming up! I shall be out and about trying to find the BEST mushroom foraging location in South Somerset for my upcoming workshops! 😙

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