I have an interest in permaculture, forest gardens, no dig and foraging for food. Particularly in the context of sustainable hutting and supplementing food rations during visits.
What have your experiences been and what are your tips etc for folk interested in foraging for foods in and round their huts. Both from the point of view of working with what exists, and from the point of view of planting and setting up perennial stuff that can be foraged during visits?
Is this something only for the warmer months ? Or are there things to consider that would be useful during visits during colder periods.
Having done a bit o reading around a first (there must be tons) few tentative leafy's to plant for foraging appear to be:-
Sorrel
Kale
Beat Spinach
Wild Garlic
Chick Weed (Not pond weed)
Someone recommended Jerusalem Artichokes, but reading up on them they seem to have (Inulin induced) flatulence issues LOL.
Probably most fruiting trees and shrubs. Gooseberries, Blackcurrants, chestnuts, oak being cases in point. I guess raspberries and maybe some of the other variants like Loganberries or the Canadian Salmonberries. I think there was a tree specialist near glasgow mentioned in the Tap O Noth videos that does heritage scotish cultivars.
Strawberries (obviously LOL) and if the ground is suitable cranberries and Bilberries.
On fungi
Promising types seem to be Chicken of the Woods, Trooping Funnel, White Wood Hedgehog and terracotta Wood Hedgehog. But don't quote me on this I only watched a couple of you tube video's. It really needs input from someone that walks the walk rather than just talking it at the moment. I think you can buy pre-prepared inoculation wood plugs for Shiitake Mushrooms and setup your own logs for fruiting too.
I found a reference to https://www.realseeds.co.uk/ they seem to keep some exotic variants that do well in siberia/russia/canada etc so should be doable for most parts of Scotland. The Tap O Noth folk seem to have been trying out a bunch of the early producing variety's from them with a reasonable degree of success. But all locations vary and the only way to be sure is to try stuff. So most edibles that are perennial or self seeding/suckering should be good.