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River Cottage September Can't see this email? View online Mushroom hunters It takes a mushroom hunter to hate an Indian summer and my heart sank at the start of September when the constant rain of August gave way to blue skies and warmth. Dry Septembers can destroy all hope of a good October fungus
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John WrightMushroom hunters

It takes a mushroom hunter to hate an Indian summer and my heart sank at the start of September when the constant rain of August gave way to blue skies and warmth.

Dry Septembers can destroy all hope of a good October fungus season and I faced taking mushroom forays with little hope of finding anything very much. But our spell of dry weather was mercifully brief and my hopes are now running high.

In fact it has been a productive year already with the superb habitat of unimproved pasture at River Cottage bringing forth Field Mushrooms, Fairy Ring Champignons and tens of kilos of magnificent Parasols.

We even have a new population of Giant Puffball for which I take full credit, deserved or not, because three years ago I placed an orphaned Giant Puffball in the hedge not far from where they have sprung up. I have tried this sort of thing many times before and it is the first time it has worked.

If you are going mushroom hunting this season then be careful, be restrained, be lucky and have fun.
 

John Wright, Foraging Expert 

You can join John at his next Hedgerow Foraging course, on 24 September.
 

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