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16/11/2025

HOW TO MAKE MULLED WINE FROM WILD WOOD AVENS INCLUDING IDENTIFY

12/11/2025

In Belgium, disused rail tunnels beneath city streets have found a second life as quiet mushroom farms—dark, cool, and perfect for growing fungi. What was once a forgotten part of urban infrastructure is now producing food and opportunity, thanks to a project that employs former homeless individuals to tend to the crops. These underground farms offer more than just fresh mushrooms—they offer steady, meaningful work and a space of calm below the hum of city life.

The tunnels maintain the ideal environment for growing oyster and shiitake mushrooms without the need for artificial cooling or excessive light. Shelves made from recycled pallets line the walls, holding bags of composted straw or coffee grounds seeded with spores. Low-energy LED lights provide brief cycles of illumination to support growth, and humidity is managed naturally or with minimal equipment.

Workers handle planting, monitoring, and harvesting in shifts that are quiet, stable, and well-suited to those recovering from life on the streets. The environment is therapeutic—cool, consistent, and free from the overstimulation of busy public spaces. Training is provided on site, and many employees use the job as a bridge toward long-term housing or other employment.

Produce from the tunnels is sold to local markets and restaurants, creating a self-sustaining loop that transforms waste, space, and lives at once. Belgium’s tunnel farms show how cities can cultivate both food and dignity in the spaces they used to overlook.

We often say Birch is the tree of life, its provides liver quenching tea from the branches, sweet wholesome sap from th...
09/11/2025

We often say Birch is the tree of life, its provides liver quenching tea from the branches, sweet wholesome sap from the trunk, perfect kindling from dry bark, many mycoryzall fungi and ofc the anti fungal Birch Polypore when it dies.

The polypores can even be used to sharpen blades or tools and mane skin plasters.

Its leaves are also used to make amazing Birch whisks used in traditional Lithuanian sauna.

We will be hosting Sauna collabs again in the New Year with our amazing friends at

Expect Foraging, Fungi, Rest, Feasting and Birch.

Here's a pic of and Sauna master Bella exchanging fungi.

Dates coming soon!

08/11/2025

Get your tickets on Eventbrite!

Still buzzing from hanging out with you all this Mushroom season. We love Wild Food and talking about it!Here a pic of ...
07/11/2025

Still buzzing from hanging out with you all this Mushroom season.

We love Wild Food and talking about it!

Here a pic of at

Bum bag by tattoo of

Caught up with the Bestie last week discussing foraging ideas, life and looking at cool stuff at She also runs the ama...
04/11/2025

Caught up with the Bestie last week discussing foraging ideas, life and looking at cool stuff at

She also runs the amazing .vitum in West Sussex, so go check them out too!

See you again Friday xx

03/11/2025

The Trooping Funnel - The Monks Head - where did the name come from and how do you identify, all is revealed here.

We made Spore prints with the kids on our Little Foragers Halloween Mushroom art session last week, there were some grea...
03/11/2025

We made Spore prints with the kids on our Little Foragers Halloween Mushroom art session last week, there were some great examples and results to follow.

We've got more making Mushroom art dates listed in half term next year, visit www.urbanforage.me to book.

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