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- Dried Saffron Milk Cap Mushrooms
- Dried Slippery Jack Mushrooms
- Dried Slippery Jack Mushrooms – Smoked
- Wild Mushroom Powder
- Wild Mushroom Powder – Smoked
…and this is just the beginning!
The Food Store
Yay!! I’m so excited to get hold of some of your beautiful mushrooms. I usually plan meals and shop from a list but i think your dried mushrooms would make a really good pantry staple as well as being a quality ingredient on my shopping list. They’ll certainly add some serious flavour to my next ‘cook from the pantry’ dish.
Keep up the good work !!
Hi Melissa,
Absolutely, these will be a great addition to your pantry – Enjoy! Let us know how you go with your yummy recipes
Blondie
hello, i grew up in bowral in the 1970s and 80s. my family is still there and i often come back to this lovely area. i just found you through my friend deigo’s website, wild stories, and although i share your love of foraging and teach the art of it here in central victoria, i baulk at capitalising on the commons; that is, putting a price on and selling wild food. wild food is part of the picture of recreating a future sustainable-ecological society. i know we all have to earn a living within the monetary economy, but selling this public and free food (which helps us transition to a non-monetary economy) puts an unnecessary strain on the landbase. in other words by selling wild mushrooms you don’t just take what you and your family need, instead you end up harvesting more than you need in order to maintain your business. this kind of activity – the over extraction of the landbase for profit – is why we have numerous ecological crises today. local wild food should be for the local community, ie those who are participants/stewards of that local ecology be they humans, insects, microorganisms, mammals or birds. packaged and capitalised wild foods just add to the debts of pollution that industrialised capitalism has created. it is not part of the path to a post-pollution, post-class society, rather fuels more ecological degradation and social inequality.
thanks for the opportunity to comment.
regards,
patrick jones
Hi Patrick,
Thanks for taking the time to write to us – we admire your ethos and understand the depths of your passion on this subject.
Our love for wild mushroom foraging isn’t purely based on making money as we currently hold free tours for groups of people wanting to experience a wild forage, we donate our time, experience and personal expenses to organisations and individuals interested in learning more about foraging. Most of our product this year has been donated, namely to the Youth Food Movement to help with their beautiful dinners at The Windmill in The Rocks. Selling wild food is our small way of sustaining this passion we have and to allow people to try an Australian picked wild mushroom. We will also be selling other condiments and sauces from other seasonal produce shortly – man cannot live on mushrooms alone!
As two people we are out once every 3 weeks or so through the season, it’s far from being a daily forage, stripping the land of it’s food. We aren’t casting a wide net across the forest floor, dredging up all but rather selectively and individually hand picking. If you go out to the pine plantations here in NSW you will see masses of Saffrons and Slipperys that have lived their full life – full sized mushrooms now decaying, ready to go back into the earth for the following season. The amazing and fast life-cycle of these mushrooms means that as long as we have the radiata pine we will always have a bountiful amount of mushrooms.
As for the future, we are looking at getting land for our own plantation as we really want to be able to provide a product that doesn’t need to be imported from overseas, as dried, wild picked mushrooms currently are, and to grow other fruits and vegetables.
The two different routes we are taking ultimately will lead us to near the same point and that is to teach people the value of the land and its resources (and how great it would be to live in a monetary-less system, instead bartering and sharing each others produce and services in exchange for your own) We agree too that we now have numerous ecological crises today due to overfishing and the over extraction of the land-base for profit, but as FinSki’s we are far from that level.
Thank you again for sharing your views with us.
Kind regards,
Blondie and Bella