GIANT DARTMOOR HORSE MUSHROOMS

 Collecting Mushrooms can be done any time, between late August and the onset of Winter frosts; after a good night's heavy rain.  They like good organic grazed land, with lots of manure.  Horse Mushrooms are much larger than the normal field mushroom and much more watery, when cooked.  They taste very similar though.

 I couldn't locate any growing in fairy rings today, but I did find some in little groups.  Any I collect are cut carefully, so as not to disturb the mycelium (fungi equiv of roots).  I ate many of the buttons fresh from the field and collected a bag full in less than half an hour.  Horse Mushrooms shrink, when cooked and release allot of water, so it is good to collect allot of them.

 I got caught by the farmer, in this field a few years ago, but when I explained my careful picking procedure; he let me be.  Just look at that!  The smell and taste is a million times better than any cultivated equivalent.

After these finish; many other edible forms of fungi will follow then, both in woodland and in grass.  Under Conifer trees as well as under deciduous.  Until about January.