Blackberry Forager Gifts

"I love the way next door never tidy their garden - it's the perfect source of blackberries for our apple crumble."

Always empty your fridge before starting a diet.

The discovery of asparagus.

"I read somewhere that truffles are a gateway fungus."

"Dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt, dirt, onion bagel with Nutella and cream cheese, dirt, dirt, dirt..."

Baby squirrel & Berries

'I've no time for these foragers - they come into the area and snap up all the best houses...'

An experimentalist alarms his guests by describing the appearance of the mushrooms in a dish they have just eaten.

'Do I really have to remind you again about which one of us earns the truffles, Jean-Claude?'

"Never mind the porridge, someone's stolen my woodland mushroom collection."

'Ah, now's there's something different....'

" 'Unlimited salad bar' sounded better on the menu."

"You might call it shoplifting officer, but I prefer to think of it as foraging."

'Thank you for noticing, Shirley - but beauty comes at a price, It hampers my hunting, limits my berry picking and typing's a real pain,'

"You know, turning a hobby into a job kinda takes all the fun out of it."

"I think the milk's off!"

It's kind of a cross between hunting and gathering --- I calling it "taxing."

A windfall pear falling straight into a bag of windfall pears.

The mushroom pickers

Black Truffles!

'Never go berry pickin' on an empty stomach.'

'I'd always been told they found the truffles by smell.'

"I was going to go to the other slop trough, but the music's always too loud."

'Hank, I know you're new at turkey hunting, but that isn't the way you call turkeys.'

It's a big ask.

'Don't think its a coincidence that the chocolate is in the back and the fruits are in the front.'

'Are these mushrooms or toadstools? And why are you holding the stomach pump?'

Dieter sees 'Enter at own risk' sign on refrigerator

"Don't be late - I'm making moldy meat and orange peels over coffee grinds with a side of egg shells."

The search for cranberries...

"I can always find the olives. It's the only jar that looks back at me!"

For thousands of years desert dwellers have harvested the delicious dark red juicy fruit of the saguaro.

'You know, after a long hard winter, I just HATE eating out of cans.'

'Today's St. Patrick's day. It'll be a good time to eat up this stuff with the green mold on it.'

"Why don't you just go to the supermarket like everybody else?"