Event description
Why don't you come on the Easter Saturday to a Wild Mushroom Hunt instead of doing another egg hunt? You will find prized delicacies, bright, edible fungi! It is a fantastic family activity, too.
Join a guided mushroom foraging tour with an experienced licenced forager for a great opportunity to learn how to find, pick and process wild edible mushrooms.
We meet at Hampton beyond the Blue Mountains and from there take a short drive to nearby pine forests to harvest precious nature's gift - wild mushrooms, also blackberries and roadside apples (it's a self-drive tour).
You will learn how to identify and collect edible mushrooms, then process them for us to cook a scrumptious lunch and see how to preserve the bounty. Your guide will teach you how to safely recognise and pick them, and will run a safety check of your basket.
Also included in the ticket price are:
- fresh barbecue lunch made from the day’s bounty
- mini-workshop on preserving mushrooms: a great opportunity to learn about cleaning, drying, pickling and fermenting
- fact sheet about the two species of mushrooms we will be looking for (emailed after you book your ticket)
- recipes for preserving mushrooms
(children under 12 only $5 for lunch, paid in cash on the day)
You will return home not only with what you found, but also with confidence to safely recognise two varieties of wild edible mushrooms and knowledge about how to preserve them. What you learn at the tour will allow you to go to the pine forests to collect these mushrooms by yourself in years to come!
