Callisto<p>This is my 28th summer on this land, and the first time I've ever seen chanterelles. </p><p>The mushroom gods are smiling on me, but I'm pretty sure they're in league with the humidity gods.</p><p><a href="https://disabled.social/tags/mushrooms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mushrooms</span></a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/foraging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>foraging</span></a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/FoodForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FoodForest</span></a></p>
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/2 Making #pricklypear #lemonade: simmer, dump off water, mash them in their skins. Realize you don’t have enough cheese cloth. Proceed anyway. Double strain through sort of cheese clothed mesh sieve. Burn hands, stain shirt. Simmer juice and sugar on stove to make syrup. Take break to clean up what appears to be a bloody crime scene in kitchen and remove stray bastard glochids from fingers. #albuquerque #newmexico #foraging
Making #pricklypear #lemonade. Step one: Enlist child to pick prickly pears with the claw, á la Balloo. Step two: burn off spines. Step three: simmer until you lose interest in the project. #albuquerque #newmexico #foraging
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The blackberries are out two weeks earlier this year than last. 9 jars of jam made this morning and a bunch now in the freezer for pies in the fall. #pnw #foraging #gardening
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hmm not clear how to get these to show up in a layer on the OSM apps I have. Found a site that lets you build queries though, so here’s a link to the query result that shows what I added (you need to hit the ‘Run’ button to run the query) https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/28De
Also found this site https://mapscaping.com/urban-foraging-map-for-america/ that has a bunch of fruit trees in my city mapped, but the data seems to live on that website rather than in OSM data.
Or maybe I’m doing it wrong? :)
Curious how difficult it would be to embed a map on a website similar to the second link, and either allow submissions somehow via point-and-click, or provide instructions for adding trees & shrubs to OSM? I think there’s a plugin for WP but ugh
overpass-turbo.euoverpass turboA web based data mining tool for OpenStreetMap which runs any kind of Overpass API query and shows the results on an interactive map.
New server, new #introduction:
Hi! I'm Eric! I'm a scientific programmer & educator who writes mostly 
code. I currently work part time at #UniversityOfArizona where I help researchers by making R packages, #Shiny apps, automated data workflows, and training them on #ReproducibleResearch practices. I also mentor data scientists for @Posit Academy. I am #OpenToWork as a contractor if any of those skills sound useful to you.
My background is in plant chemical ecology and population ecology and for my PhD I studied #tea and did field work in China. I love tea (although I've been drinking coffee more and more lately) and practice #GongFuCha when I can. I love #foraging and tasting new things.
I currently live in #Tucson but the #BayArea will always be my home.
It'll be a bumper year for blackberries this year around here - all the brambles are absolutely covered with baby berries.
And some are even ready to pick, which feels crazy for July.
Article in yesterday's New York Times about the invasive golden oyster mushroom (Pleurotus citrinopileatus). It's likely outcompeting certain native fungi but is apparently delicious so it could be worse. #tamogitake #mushroom #fungi #fungus #invasive #cooking #foraging #nature #biodiversity #science https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/science/golden-oyster-mushrooms-invasive-fungus.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Yk8.Qb09.i1yW8OEEK0qP&smid=url-share
The New York Times · This Golden Fungus Is Spreading Wildly in North America’s Forests
Made sand hill plum #jelly today. The fruit after which this farm is named. It is definitely a farm special! 
My happy place 
I’m a mountain gal and there’s nowhere I’d rather be (except up on the meadows haha) Exceptional purple huckleberries this year! #PNW #Washington #forest #mountains #trees #foraging
Some pics from a spontaneous mushroom foraging ride Saturday because EVERYONE brings home bucketloads of yellow chanterelles. Except me. Just got a few along with some boletes.
As always there are poisonous mushrooms that look similar to edible. Never forage and eat those whose identification you are not certain of etc etc.
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Today's raspberry haul - the whole hedge is full of plants like this.
Little paths of flattened grass tell of people who also noticed, and went picking before me.
But it made no difference - there are just SO MANY. Plenty for everyone..
