Howth Foraging

15/11/2025

This week's fungi folk x

09/11/2025

Another great day!

Another book out walk! We enjoyed herbal tea & delicious walnut, rasin,vanilla vegan banana bread 🍞

Foraging Novembers late bounty, a mix of Blewits (now collybia nuda), wood ears, witches butter, russula, ink caps, birch polypore, clitocybes, puffballs, earthballs, false turkey tail, Staghorns, mycena and more!!!

Enjoyed by all ages, including our amazing junior mycologists.

Only three more mushroom Foraging tours left this year! It's been a bumper season and almost time to let nature regenerate until we commence our Spring Foraging walks in January.

Open for corporate Christmas party season- December Foraging followed by a meal in one of Howths finest eateries. To book in visit www.howthforaging.ie or email Nicole
howthforaging@outlook.ie

07/11/2025

I'm really looking forward to this special event for "Week of Italian Cuisine in the World!"

Privileged to be invited to speak about sustainable foraging and the parallels of our heritage.

Educational event on the topic of wild herbs and their benefits within the Italian food tradition Venue: THOMAS PRIOR HALL, Merrion Rd, Dublin 4
18:30 p.m. - Guests' arrival and registration Welcome and informal gathering of participants

18:50 p.m. - Institutional greeting Opening remarks by local authorities

19:00 p.m. Panel discussion begins

THE EXPERTS

Speakers:

Nicole Dunne - Chef, Herbalist & Founder of Howth Foraging

Andrew Davidson - Co-owner of Quickerop

Nicola Franchetto - Representative of Il Fiore della Salute

Omar Lapecia- President of Slow Food

20:30 p.m. - Gastronomic Tasting
A curated tasting featuring finger foods and small bites inspired by Italian culinary traditions, highlighting wild herbs and Radicchio di Treviso

06/11/2025

Under the Beaver Moon!

It was magical walking tonight in the light of the Beaver Moon. You can feel like snuggling up on the couch at this time of year, energy is low, and our bodies feel like resting. However, moonlight strolls down by the docks, with the herrons and gulls, fishermen fixing nets, and a little ice cream warms the soul!

The Beaver Moon has many spiritual meanings, including: Transition and preparation for the time ahead. Beaver Moon is a time to prepare for winter by gathering resources and setting intentions. It reflects the behaviour of beavers, who retreat into their lodges before winter. Like many who are preparing for hibernation, including our little hedgehogs, who still visit us every few nights.

Enjoy this moon, check our the rainbow 🌈 halo this evening, it's magical ✨️ 💖

05/11/2025

Great event at Fallon & Byrne with Failte Ireland 🇮🇪 and Visit Dublin

Speakers included Tommy Hannan, Dee Lafan, Olly from Ollys farm, Mc Nallys, Airfield estate...

Food was unreal, talks were very informative.

02/11/2025

Mushrooms share more DNA with humans than with plants.

It sounds impossible, but science confirms it.
Fungi are genetically closer to animals than to the trees they grow beside. About 1.1 billion years ago, the fungal and animal kingdoms split from a common ancestor, leaving plants on an entirely different branch of life.

Like us, mushrooms store energy as glycogen rather than starch.
They breathe in oxygen and release carbon dioxide.
They build strength with chitin, the same compound found in insect shells.
Almost half of the human genome matches sequences found in certain fungi species.

This link is more than trivia.
It is guiding research that could change medicine and technology.
Compounds such as psilocybin are being studied to treat depression, PTSD, and addiction.
The root-like network of fungi, mycelium, is inspiring new materials that may replace plastics, clean polluted soil, and even build sustainable housing.
Its self-organizing structure is teaching scientists how to design smarter artificial intelligence systems.

To study fungi is to study ourselves.
Every mushroom that pushes through the soil carries a memory of that shared ancestry — a reminder that the story of life on Earth is written in connections deeper than we can see.

Source: Nature 2025, National Geographic 2025, Scientific American 2025

29/10/2025

20/10/2025

A post from last year, apt for this time.

18/10/2025

Mushroom Foraging for beginners!

We found russulas, milkcaps, amanitas, blue roundhead, yellow field caps, birch polypore, collybia, rosy bonnets, deceivers, puffballs to name a few!

Everyone brought a few pear puffballs home for mushroom toast.

It was a gorgeous introduction to wild mushrooms, with beautiful people from all around the globe 🌎 ❤️
We had three lovely chefs from Church restaurant who shared some of their culinary knowledge with us.
Rachel a sustainability student and beautiful bright engaging participants.

We enjoyed gorgeous apple & blueberry cake, with thanks to the fabulous Erica Drum for the inspiration & sharing her recipe.
Herbal tea was - mugwort, ginger, mint, cinnamon and fennel.

We still have several more mushroom Foraging events this year, filling up quickly so please book soon x

16/10/2025

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