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Run by Marina Muttik 🧜♀️
Foraging & mushroom/plant ID courses and content. Based in the 3 counties: Herts / Bucks / Beds.
23/06/2026
Time for some more mugolio!
This beautiful Korean fir has produced a lot of cones this year, so I’m making some more syrup with it!
My previous iteration is the bottom bowl. On the left is mugolio from Chinese white pine. And I’m currently working through a 2y mature bottle of true mountain pine mugolio. And yes, the flavours do differ!
I simply put into a jar, top with sugar, and leave it to excrete moisture and ferment a little. Key is making sure to top up with sugar as it naturally turns to syrup so it’s always submerged - this is to prevent it going mouldy. Picture 3 is after just 2 days.
Very excited to finally find some black Morels right in our own garden ! They were very tasty too ☺️ often found in landscaping / garden woodchip as these were.
19/03/2026
Very excited to finally find some black Morels right in our own garden ! They were very tasty too ☺️ often found in landscaping / garden woodchip as these were.
31/12/2025
Happy new year everyone 🥳
Finallyyyy after a very long time I have got around to fixing my website articles code and some improvements this week 😂 doing my day job in my free time is just no fun.
But good news is now I can start adding handy graphics, longer explanatory pieces, and more in an accessible place ! 😄
Also added a subscribe button after a few people asked about being reminded - that’ll let you signup so I can email any upcoming events rather than you all having to watch my social media.
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Lion’s mane / bearded tooth - Hericium erinaceus 🦁
A very rare mushroom across Europe, and one of the 3 legally protected species in the UK (Sch8 WCA 1981). They colonise dead or dying hardwood, especially ancient beech logs - and so they are particularly affected by habitat loss.
Note: yes, this is a particularly fancy H erinaceus as they sometimes form like this here in the UK - no, it is not the American H americanum before anyone goes there again 🤪
Looking at Lion’s mane / bearded tooth - Hericium erinaceus 🦁
A very rare mushroom across Europe, and one of the 3 legally protected species in the UK (Sch8 WCA 1981). They colonise dead or dying hardwood, especially ancient beech logs - and so they are particularly affected by habitat loss.
Jelly rot - Merulius tremellosus
16/12/2025
Handmade wreath!
Made the base out of woven birch twigs in 2018, and then every year I just weave in various coniferous and planty clippings from my garden and nearby ☺️
28/11/2025
Gymnopus montagnei (pod parachute)
Tropical fungi in La Macarena, Colombia
27/11/2025
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Ptychogaster albus (ex. Postia ptychogaster)
These floofy cute fungi like conifers, and are sometimes mistaken for young lion’s mane / Hericium (which develops into spines and grows on hardwood like beech)
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