‘Excessive’ foraging prompts ban in Nottingham park

Three options with a mushroom we can think it’s delicious deadly or just disgusting turns out this funus is well not deadly but you wouldn’t want to eat it that’s why an expert comes in handy we know any smell Lucy bookle teaches foraging showing people how to find their dinner

On their doorstep well the nearby Forest it’s about connecting with nature connecting with your local space and connecting with the food that we eat it abs absolutely encourages zero waste approach to food a seasonality approach and you you diversify your diet so much Lucy says the popularity of foraging has

Really grown since lockdown and the cost of living crisis she sources her own food from several locations legally and she only ever takes what she needs but foraging for profit is against the law at won Park in Nottingham they’ve had to ban the practice completely because of

Some Bad actors these trees are hundreds of years old and some people have been damaging the branches trying to knock chestnuts off them people have even been seen bringing shopping trolleys here to fill with chestnuts it’s thought they’re collecting large amounts to sell perhaps to restaurants and they’re robbing the

Wildlife here of their food the chestnuts um and the fungi they all form a part of the deer’s natural diet the deer are going into the rots um so they’re starting their breeding season so they’ll use lots of energy so the chestnuts will be full of energy for

Them um they’ll be feeding them they will also feed all um they’ll feed some of the bigger birds like the crows and the monk pies and all the squirrels it’s a problem across the country these mushrooms from eping forest were confiscated after the culprits were caught red-handed thieves

On this site have been prosecuted including one person who tried to steal almost 50 kg of fungi there we go wow back at Lucy’s outdoor lesson and there are concerns that b won’t stop criminals but will deprive those with good intentions and if we start to ban

Foraging on public land where we legally have the right to do so my concern is where where will that stop um and will we become a nation where nobody’s allowed to go forage at all and that would be my biggest concern for the moment there are still plenty of opportunities to forage but

The fear is that a greedy few could ruin the fun for everyone else Becky cell Sky News Nottingham

Foragers are worried their increasingly popular food-gathering practice could face further bans, because of those they accuse of being greedy and profiteering.

The activity has already been stopped at a park in Nottingham where some visitors were breaking the law by taking more of their fair share from nature, which the wildlife depends on.

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40 comments

  2. इंसान का लालच ही उसे लालची बना देता है जिसमें सिर्फ मुनाफा ही एकमात्र उद्देश्य होता है बाकी की परवाह वो नहीं करते

  8. I've always joked on greenies for this, it's a great hobby/way of life but farms do exist for a reason if everyone went out and foraged and hunted you'd strip the land barren and it would very quickly become unsustainable

  13. Ban foraging so people forget how to live of the land.

    Making them 100% reliant on private companies for their food.

  14. Trying to suggest that people making a small profit from foraging.
    Is robbing the wildlife of their food is laughable.
    (Slugs are the biggest consumer of wild mushrooms.
    Not deer)

    Farmers do the exact same every single day.
    They grow food using the soil and sell it for profit.
    While removing a food source (there crops) 😂

  16. It is a great experience for people of all ages. Such wonderful landscape deserves care and protection.

  17. Gosh, they're behind the curve. Bristol Parks department "banned" foraging from all it's parks and street trees years ago. Not that anyone gives a damn! With so many people reliant on food banks, and these little Napoleons stop people collecting free food, which no one else uses.

  21. We got the right to breath in this pos country? Of is it just working at our soul crushing jobs till we drop eating plastic food?

  24. Responsible foraging actually increases yields of food; mushrooms can spread spores much more widely from a mesh bag carried by a forager than from a mushroom an inch above the ground, many plants are stimulated to produce more growth hormone by foraging reasonable amounts from them, soil health (which industrial agriculture destroys) is improved by fungus, microbes and bacteria when the ground is left undisturbed (rather than dug up all the time), etc…

    Industrial agriculture has depleted the earth's ability to sustain life to a terrifying degree during the last c.150 years. Going after people seeking an alternative to such methods is a big mistake.

  29. God forbid people learn how to be more self reliant and stand on their own two feet, this is our native land, and the establishment wants all of it for themselves. We are the most deforested country on the planet! The British empire never disappeared, it just came home.

    If our nature reserves don't have enough to support multiple species of life then we need a bigger nature reserve!

  33. Could have used a better example than honey fungus which spreads prolifically and attacks plants, removing the fruiting bodies does not kill the host mycelium but will limit the spread of spores (though their black laces will ensnare roots they come across underground, so this doesn't stop it spreading entirely). Thus I would actively encourage picking as much as possible.

    The Forager's code is generally well adhered to, however as with all things a small minority ruin it for everyone else. The usual suspects come from cultures with historic traditions of foraging who don't respect the British approach.

  34. Grow your own mushrooms in a pruned tree log. Drill wide deep holes in the side and pack with mushroom spawn and leave in a shaded warm area. They're super easy to grow and delicious.

  36. I'M GLAD TO SEE THAT THIS IS BEING STOPPED, THERE'S ALWAYS THE ONE'S WHO SPOIL IT FOR EVERYONE ELSE.
    I LIVE CLOSE TO WOLLATON PARK & WE NEED TO PROTECT OUR BEAUTIFUL WILDLIFE THERE, THEY NEED THEIR NATURAL DIET.
    SO PEOPLE NEED TO LEAVE IT ALONE.

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