Wild Mushroom Hunt dates – more to be published!
May 11th
May 19th
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Autumn brings a chance to experience foraging for wild mushrooms in pine forests
A guided mushroom hunt is a great opportunity to learn how to successfully forage for nature’s bounty – gourmet wild mushrooms, growing in Autumn in cool climate pine forests around Sydney. They are considered delicacies in Europe and are sought after by Sydney chefs!
We usually meet at 9:30 am at Hampton or Lidsdale beyond the Blue Mountains and from there take a short drive to a pine forest for our foraging tour. Your guide will:
- teach you how to recognise and pick wild edible mushrooms
- run a safety check of your basket
- prepare a fresh barbecue lunch from the day’s harvest (vegan, vegetarian and lactose-free options available)
- talk about preserving mushrooms: a great opportunity to learn about drying, pickling and fermenting.
You will go home not only with what you found, but also with confidence to safely recognise two varieties of edible mushrooms and knowledge about how to preserve them.
Once registered, you will receive:
- information about what to bring
- a fact sheet about wild mushrooms.
A mushroom hunt is a great outdoors activity, especially for children who are fascinated by finding not only edible mushrooms, but also fairy circles!
The most popular edible mushroom species growing near Sydney came from the northern hemisphere and colonised pine plantation forests in cooler areas such as highlands beyond Blue Mountains. These delicacies such as Red Pine Mushroom (Saffron Milk Cup) and Slippery Jack are highly prized by chefs and hard to buy.
Read also an article at Outdooria “Mushroom foraging 101: what, how, where” or a feature on SBS Food (full of great recipes!): “Australia’s accidental love story with this mushroom”
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Comments from recent mushroom hunt participants:
Hi Margaret, thank you for being such a fantastic and knowledgeable guide! Everyone told me how much they enjoyed yesterday. It was a lot of fun and we ended up picking a lot of mushrooms and the apples and blackberries were a great bonus! (Martin, Swiss Club of NSW)
Just want to say that me and Chris had an absolutely fantastic day yesterday, we couldn’t stop talking about how fabulous it was in the car on the way home, we both really really enjoyed the trip thoroughly.
Thank You so much for the amazing day for teaching us the different mushrooms species, setting up the fire, cooking etc. We definitely learnt a lot from the trip. (Carrie & Chris)
Hi Margaret,
I hope that you are well and find you now on the Swiss information. It has made aware that you organise mushroom collecting. Cannot attend on the 15th but would very much like to join you if you go up at another date.
Please,let me know if you do go again.
Regards
Liane
Liane, are you still interested in mushroom picking? The next one is on the post-election Sunday, March 29th.
Liane,
I plan to run a mushroom hunt on 9th or 16th of April 2016.
Please email me on info@mosshouse.com.au to let me know which date suits you better, as I’m gathering responses from people who contacted me prior before I advertise the event. Hope to see you next month!
Hi Margaret, I am interested to attend one of your mushroom picking tours. Please advise of date, location (meeting point), time, cost etc… Many thanks, Martin
I would like to join a mushroom picking day. I heard there is one on 21 march?
Sarah,
The next mushroom hunt is on March 29th. Please email me if you are interested.
Sarah,
In 2016 I plan to run a mushroom hunt on 9th or 16th of April.
Please email me on info@mosshouse.com.au to let me know which date suits you better, as I’m gathering responses from people who contacted me prior before I advertise the event. Hope to see you next month!
Had lots of fun learning about mushies in such a beautiful environment. Thanks for being a wonderful host and for the delicious freshly picked meal.
Hi Margaret,
Just want to say Thank You so much yesterday for taking us picking mushrooms in such a beautiful location. We had a fantastic day and learnt a lot about the different mushroom species. It was a great experience and we really enjoyed the trip thoroughly. Carrie
Hi Margaret
I’ve attended two of your excellent workhops at Annangrove & I’m interested in your next “wild mushroom hunt”. Could you please let me know the day & time once it’s fixed?
Thanks & Regards
Khoo
Hello Khoo,
I plan to run a mushroom hunt on 9th or 16th of April.
Please email me on info@mosshouse.com.au to let me know which date suits you better, as I’m gathering responses from people who contacted me prior before I advertise the event. Hope to see you next month!
Hi Margret ,
I can only make it on the 29th and 30 April for mushroom picking . Is that possible ? we are a group of 10
Thanks and Regards
Rita
Hi, could you please tell me how to purchase tickets to the mushroom foraging on April 22. It is for 2 adults and MAYBE 2 children (8 and 4)
Thank you
When is the next mushroom hunt after End of April?
Thank you:)
Kind regards,
Steph
Stephanie, that will be May 13th.
Hi there,
my partner and I are extremely interested in joining a mushroom tour this coming weekend (29th and 30th Apr) if there are any places left, or if anyone drops out!
regards,
Shivan
Is there any more tours going this month? Myself plus three friends are interested.
Cheers
Sharon
Hi Sharon,
I ran the last one on May 13th. There will be some mushrooms left in pine forests until the first frosts kill them. Maybe someone else still runs tours in late May?
Otherwise, I will be back with the wild mushroom foraging tours in Autumn 2018!
Cheers
Margaret
My friend Susanne Hollis and I are interested in attending the mushroom picking on 21 April. We will not need transport as we are going to stay in the mountains for the weekend.
Kind Regards,
Diane
Hi Diane, I received your payment and sent you a confirmation email.
See you in the forest!
Margaret
Hi Team,
I am interested, please let me know if you have availability for 1 person.
Thanks
Rohan
Can you let me know when your next Mushie hunt is on? Probably next year..but still would love to join the hunt!
Hi Sally,
Typically the mushroom season is in autumn – from March until the first frosts in May. However, it depends on the amount of rain and temperature.
Please check the website in February, when I know what the weather is like and the short term weather forecast. It looks like El Nino is coming with a hot and dry summer ahead – not the ideal conditions for wild mushrooms growing…
Hope to see you next year!
Cheers
Margaret
Hi there,
I cannot locate Hampton on google maps, can you provide another town or suburb name so I can see how far it is. Thank you
Hi Lowana,
I haven’t advertised the 2019 tours yet but will do that over the weekend. The meeting place details will be available upon registration.
Hampton, NSW is a village on Jenolan Caves Road: https://goo.gl/maps/fSTuYG64Mx82
Cheers
Margaret
I dont suppose a wheelchair user could come could they? My daughter would love to mushie hunt.(she’s 31..not a kid)
Hi Sally,
We will pick mushrooms from a forest, no wheelchair could go in between trees and shrubs on uneven terrain. Even the road through the forest where we park cars would be hard for wheelchairs, as it is unsealed and covered with gravel.
Hi do you run these in august?
Hi Amber, the wild mushroom picking season is in Autumn, I usually run mushroom foraging tours between late February and mid-May.
Hi,
We are interested in joining the trip; however, we are vegetarian. Would you be able to accommodate vegetarian lunch?
Thanks,
Hi Ann,
There will be only vegetarian and vegan food served, you will be fine 🙂
See you in the forest!
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