Another Empty-Basket Foraging Trip (But We Had a Nice Walk)

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@Pattoe 2 ай бұрын

I'm glad you bring Eva on these walks with you. Without her vigilance and protection today you might not have made it home. That bottle had sinister intent.

@VanillaLoaf 2 ай бұрын

Eva just hates littering. Good girl.

@gitmoholliday5764 2 ай бұрын

Maybe her full name is "Eva Thunberg" ?? 🤔

@1kreature 2 ай бұрын

@@gitmoholliday5764 Impossible! This Eva is so likeable.

@skunclep1938 2 ай бұрын

@@1kreaturewhat’s “unlikeable” about Greta Thunberg?

@johanneswerner1140 2 ай бұрын

A bit like Idefix 😀

@Pixxxxxxie 2 ай бұрын

I had a very slow morning today, I suffer from CFS and had planned to just stay in and rest. But you inspired me to go out and see what I could find to forage, I did not find alot, a few chanterelles and one large penny bun, but still enough for a nice dinner later. Now I'm still tired, even more so, but my mind is clearer and I'm proud that I got out today. Thank you for your videos, they really help me alot😊

@markfudger5267 2 ай бұрын

A dramatic drop in temperature and increase in humidity is what you are looking for. Fungi tend to start fruiting when cold and damp conditions occur together.

@arthuredeson3824 2 ай бұрын

Blackberries aren't actually a single species, but a 'species aggregate' of many separate 'microspecies'. Over 320 such microspecies have been recorded in the British Isles. Each microspecies is apomictic, meaning the plants produce viable seed without fertilisation, leading to a large number of plants being genetically identical. These microspecies are virtually impossible to identify in the field, however they account for the variability that you see in wild blackberries.

@pattheplanter 2 ай бұрын

One of those rare cases where the common name is as accurate as you can get or need, unless you are one of the botanists working on Rubus subgenus Rubus.

@PandemoniumMeltDown 2 ай бұрын

Hmmm Atomictic... I'll show myself out now.

@aaronmarko 2 ай бұрын

"Why does your forest look like that?" Is such a weird question that if I were ever asked that, I would never know how to respond to that other than "because it does"

@AtomicShrimp 2 ай бұрын

I know what you mean. The other one I get a lot is "why did you do that thing you just did? Why didn't you do some other thing?" - the answer is almost invariably "because... I did"

@Fragmentofbone 2 ай бұрын

But why?@@AtomicShrimp

@AtomicShrimp 2 ай бұрын

@@Fragmentofbone Because why not!

@Fragmentofbone 2 ай бұрын

@@AtomicShrimp But why not not?

@Shenorai 2 ай бұрын

@@AtomicShrimp Lately, my beloved and I have been turning that into more of a game. Though it turns more into, "Whatcha gonna do about it?" With the common response of, "I dunno what I CAN do about it! It just happened!" We're goofy goobers. :3

@alexnelson5383 2 ай бұрын

You know summer is turning to autumn when Shrimp ventures to the woods in search of fungi!

@KnugenMooMoo 3 ай бұрын

Eva barking at the plastic bottle was funny just what the Dr ordered a good laugh thanks Eva.

@Sybil_Detard 2 ай бұрын

Eva is rightfully offended by litter. She single-pawedly deprived a future archeologist a potential tidbit of a prior civilization.

@MamguSian 2 ай бұрын

Good on you Eva, for doing your bit to combat the disgraceful plastic litter problem. I just wish whoever left it there could catch this vid and feel thoroughly shamed of themselves.

@dominicharvey6048 2 ай бұрын

Not just the plastic there was most likely oil in the bottle also

@gavinhammond1778 2 ай бұрын

There's no shame, else they wouldn't have done it in the 1st place. All we can do is not contribute and pick up the mess when we can. Have a lovely day.

@tgcpark 2 ай бұрын

I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one who calls their dog "dingus"

@MandrakeFernflower 2 ай бұрын

Dankpods moment

@HotelPapa100 2 ай бұрын

That's the thing when you pick up trash in the woods out of curiosity. You are stuck with it until you can get rid of it responsibly

@chezmoi42 2 ай бұрын

Thus, always carry a bag in your pocket to carry it out.

@Gundolf2056 2 ай бұрын

Eva is saving the planet - bark by bark (as long as Michael is doing the carrying)

@utubey99 2 ай бұрын

Literally as you said it I was thinking how soothing the noise of you walking on fallen branches was.

@katelights 3 ай бұрын

I love that oven door. going to need one of those when ours is due for replacement.

@gedtoon6451 2 ай бұрын

Only Atomic Shrimp could go out foraging and come home with an empty oil container!

@BunnySpaceMachine 2 ай бұрын

Hahah I read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time! Such a good book...

@littlemiss_76 2 ай бұрын

Eva did a great job making sure the oil bottle was not a threat

@SauerPatchGardening 2 ай бұрын

That bottle didn't stand a chance! I love Eva! She is not having any litter on her watch!

@AnyKeyLady 2 ай бұрын

When Mike is the fun guy in the woods!

@audieswatchingthis 2 ай бұрын

I would love to see an ASMR channel of Eva digging in the sand on the beach and you walking in the woods. I use the slow walk videos to help me relax at night ❤

@jimthechin123 2 ай бұрын

Hello. I have a question you might be interested in? In my local park there is a black locust tree. Its in a secluded spot and not many people see it. It's an amazing tree and you can look at it from any angle and be amazed by the knarly old trunk. It really is a fascinating tree to see. Anyway the question is this. My dad always told me this was the oldest tree in town. It sure looks it but I can't find any information about it anywhere. So how did he know? Maybe he just made it up to impress me? So the questions to you are these. Is there anyway I can find out how old a tree is without cutting it down and counting the rings? Hope you can help. Thanks for the videos.

@AtomicShrimp 2 ай бұрын

Different species of tree grow at different rates, so if you know the species and the rate of growth, you can estimate the age with a fair degree of accuracy. Also some species of tree exhibit changes as they age - for example young Silver Birch trees have smooth white bark; on older trees of the same species, the bark breaks up into rough, thick, corky patches. Not very familiar with black locust, but there will be ways to judge the age of it.

@zerocasualteas 2 ай бұрын

Such a lovely forest walk! I appreciate these beautiful videos. Thank you for sharing these moments with us. Much appreciated!

@azurehanyo 2 ай бұрын

Eva: Warden of the Wilds. Behold (or, listen?) as she defends the lands from such horrid things as stones and inconsiderately discarded lots of rubbish.

@gigi3242 2 ай бұрын

A walk in the woods, empty basket or not, always enjoyable. I hope you find someone to show you a few good spots, you've always gotten so happy when finding mushrooms, even the ones you can't eat. Have a lovely weekend.

@kikihammond5326 2 ай бұрын

I so appreciate your nature walks. I'm in Florida no where near proper woodland and it is ten thousand degrees at the moment. I'd love to go on a quiet walk in the cool of the woods with a dog. Good work, Eva. I hate litter in nature as well.

@I_pirated_premium 2 ай бұрын

Honestly. Im in east Orlando. I'm trying to go out and collect fish and aquatic plants for a FL tank I'm doing but I sweat like crazy just going to my retention pond. Plus the mosquitos ugh

@emilyg1539 2 ай бұрын

Dewberrries- When I was in the 4th grade (8 years old) my mother and I went dewberry-picking here in North Texas, with my best friend and her mother. Her mother made several dewberry cobblers that night and my mother and I agree on one thing, and one thing only- that dewberry cobbler was the ABSOLUTELY MOST DELICIOUS THING we've ever eaten. One cobbler, one love.

@Moewenfels 2 ай бұрын

I would LOVE to see more coastal foraging! Flora aswell as Fauna. As i never lived by ANY coast that topic has a certain magic to me. Like one of those tricks where you pour salt on a razor clam hole and grab it as it comes up.

@I_pirated_premium 2 ай бұрын

I've lived in Florida My whole life and the ocean has never lost its charm to me. I'm actually continuing education to become a ichthyologist and specialize is cartilaginous fish (sharks, rays, and skates) but the ocean has so many cool forms of life it's hard to just pick one!

@saafiiiraa 2 ай бұрын

Blackberries are called brombær in Danish - with brom/bram meaning thorny in Old Norse. Old English had the word bromberi(g)e (though they also had blæcberi(g)e).

@JuniperBoy 2 ай бұрын

That's why they're also called brambles.

@raraavis7782 2 ай бұрын

Interesting. They're called Brombeeren in German as well - but I never knew the origin of the word!

@PrincipalAudio 2 ай бұрын

I went out foraging for fruit the other day. Elderberry season seems to be very good this year. Managed to partially harvest a road-side tree for 5 gallons worth of deep, purple elderberry wine. I've seen so many more trees that tempt me but no room to make any more this year. Really need to clear a room for next year and absolutely jam pack it with 30 litre fermenting buckets and demojihns! Next year will hopefully be a good year for wine!

@MelanieiLynxHjorth 2 ай бұрын

You find what you find, you don't find what you don't find - But there's still educational content here; this is why I love watching your videos Shrimp n.n

@firstletterofthealphabet7308 2 ай бұрын

good morning shrimpies

@AlissaSss23 2 ай бұрын

Shrimpies ❤❤❤

@simonhopkins3867 2 ай бұрын

Jenny's reaction when she realises what Eva is barking at. 😂

@kropka8259 3 ай бұрын

My dog also barks at inanimate objects :) Often runs away and tramples whatever is in her path, but she is much bigger than Eva, and often causes damage 😅 Numpties, ey.

@ramblingrambles 2 ай бұрын

Eva being the good little littering police we never knew we needed

@rangotastic 2 ай бұрын

Yes please try out some coastal foraging

@3ncy 2 ай бұрын

22:20 "Again, no introduction required, everybody's familiar with blackberries." That reminds me of the famous "Everyone knows what a horse is"

@psychedelikchameleon 2 ай бұрын

These videos are my excuse to get up and make a coffee, for a lovely morning on the sofa. Best bit was Eva barking at a plastic bottle and Jenny doubled over laughing 😂

@alderdash2469 2 ай бұрын

I love what a happy wee dog Eva is. She really cheers me up!

@AdirondackRuby 2 ай бұрын

I laughed when you said those trees were Larch. That skit never made any sense, but it still makes me giggle any time someone mentions that majestic tree!

@wiiza4ever 2 ай бұрын

Eva borking at the bottle is so cute. I adore her.

@UltimatePerfection 2 ай бұрын

There's a spot in a local forest where there are wild berries (the edible kind) around late august/early september. I always end up with an entire bucketful of them. Was there last week and got two buckets full of those. Probably will make a jam.

@TheJamshaw 2 ай бұрын

I'm finding myself waiting and looking forward to your videos, gets me through the working week and inspires me. Now this is your full time gig do you have to manage it all differently, and does it ever feel like a 'job'? Cheers

@SEiiBUTSU 2 ай бұрын

Lovely to get a little overview of the black/rasp/dewberry differences. We just found our first nice local patch of dewberries this summer and I was made up brining a bundle home with our blackberry haul this year. We have a few purpose planted Berry bushes in our garden, blackcurrant, gooseberry, and raspberry are our stars, all three finally producing some fine numbers of berries this year. On raspberries, a few things I've learned. Firstly, while they ate not as virilant as a blackberry, they still can spread quite easily, with several new bushes starting to pop up all over my lawn (not hard to manage tbf, but important to be aware of). The other thing I've found is that they have, in my experience, two periods of bloom and fruiting. This year for example we had our first crop early June, and now, as of last week we are seeing a second crop of fruit. As a nice bonus this second crop has bigger and sweeter fruits too. This is the third year the Bush has done this in a row, so it may be worth revisiting the raspberry bushes in this video a couple of weeks later. The other interesting thing is that the leaves are used by some, when dried out, as an alternative to tobacco, in order to aid quitting. Which my friend has asked me to save them for. Haha. They say it benefits them, so I'm more than happy to help. Thanks for the video Tommy shrimp!! Huzzah!!

@zeterzero4356 2 ай бұрын

Eco-defender Eva, Ally to the woods.

@evancoutts9658 2 ай бұрын

I love your foraging videos, thanks for the walk in the woods. It looks like you have the option of a lot of nut foraging in Autumn. It looked like a hedge of hazel you were walking past, plus the chestnuts.

@muggins2279 2 ай бұрын

Evas helping you clean the forest!! Litter like this should be collected in a designated box and sent back to the company that put it there, with an invoice!!

@brianartillery 2 ай бұрын

Try to contact the Dorset naturalist, mycologist, and writer, John Wright. He's written several superb books on foraging. I consider his 'The Forager's Calendar', to be the definitive book on the subject. Also, it has been very dry recently, and the fungi might be holding back for damper conditions. It has rained heavily here, and I'm hoping that some Horse Mushrooms will appear in their usual spot in my garden. I must admit here, that they don't get shared - I'm sorry, but they are that good. 😆😆😆 P.S.- I'd love to see a video on shoreline foraging. Some of the most delicious foodstuffs, animal and vegetable, can be got from there. Again, you have to be very careful, but it's worth it.

@janetbean1994 2 ай бұрын

Eva - Guardian of the Forests

@AverageLama Ай бұрын

Crazy to think people have foraged that exact spot for thousands of years before you! 😸great video!

@Mysticalzelda 2 ай бұрын

Eva is very dedicated to recycling, love it!

@ilovebacon304 2 ай бұрын

Get that plastic bottle Eva! 😂

@RPI79 2 ай бұрын

So about 3hrs ago I dropped 2 tabs and went for a two hour adventure through our parklands around here. Time for me to chill and enjoy your little walk Atomic Shrimp..

@psychedelikchameleon 2 ай бұрын

How's it going now?😁

@RPI79 2 ай бұрын

@@psychedelikchameleon watching Deadpool 2! It's GREAT!!

@milquetoasted 2 ай бұрын

I've never dropped tabs, but I've enjoyed Atomic Shrimp's videos occasionally under the influence of some other things before..and it's great. Lovely Atomic Shrimp. ♥

@RPI79 2 ай бұрын

@@milquetoasted I wholeheartedly agree.

@bethanymcmullen7429 2 ай бұрын

One of the things I was told at a provincial park about plantation forests and understory is another part of the reason is that the trees are all the same age, so there isn’t the same variation in the canopy as a naturally formed forest, which means that there isn’t the same undergrowth.

@Hellastreet700 2 ай бұрын

With all the madness going on in the world around us it’s a Tonic to watch The Shrimp Family Wander About The Quiet Woods for a while 🙏

@emmo4765 Ай бұрын

I am currently on maternity leave with my 3 month old, it can be quite overstimulating, so I'm enjoying your videos during her naps to wind down.

@LordmonkeyTRM 2 ай бұрын

Dewberry wine making when. Probably difficult due to lack of fruit 🤔❤ Also Eva as incensed as I am when i see plastic litter in nature

@st200ol 2 ай бұрын

Perhaps the rain we have today will trigger Chanterelles to appear?

@simonhopkins3867 2 ай бұрын

Hopefully not too much more.

@st200ol 2 ай бұрын

@@simonhopkins3867 Rain? Its not looking good for today I'm afraid down south. Probably not a beach day. 🙂

@simonhopkins3867 2 ай бұрын

@@st200ol looks like it's going to be a dry start to the week. Fingers crossed.

@BaggieReg63 2 ай бұрын

I did wonder if the extremely wet winter and spring we had would have affected the fungi this year. I know it put paid to a lot of the insect life.

@ianmurphy9955 2 ай бұрын

I love these videos, along with several other channels they're a safe haven from the current ills of the world for me, educational, informative and has me learning things I didn't think I'd be interested in

@Escape-the-Chaos 2 ай бұрын

Empty basket or not, I still love watching your videos, so interesting and educational, not many like this. Thank you

@Krektonix 2 ай бұрын

I LOVE YOU AS A CONTENT CREATOR KEEP IT UPP!!!!

@erinnola-raised6543 2 ай бұрын

Last month they were all about my property, shaded by centuries old Live Oaks

@catherineoneal1030 2 ай бұрын

I don't know about UK mushroomers, but most people will only share their spots with people they are sure won't aggressively pick the mushrooms out, will let them drop their spores before picking. A friend of mine mistakenly shared one of our spots with a guy that was really greedy, picking the mushrooms so much that even my friend didn't have a shot at that area anymore. The result was the area stopped producing, probably out of fear, LOL The species was Black Trumpet, a choice mushroom. They guy ruined it for everyone, himself, my friend and the mushroom. Again, not sure if you will run into this in the UK, but I suspect some people will be shy about sharing. Just FYI.

@dingolovethrob 2 ай бұрын

lovely relaxing vid, and seeing eco-warrior Eva spring into action was great 😊

@amandadavies.. 2 ай бұрын

Eva reminds me of a poodle I had when I was a kid. Always poking at bricks and stones and making really weird noises when she got mad with them and couldn't dig them up.

@thesehandsart 2 ай бұрын

Sweet Eva despises litterbugs!❤😂❤

@charinajohansson3890 2 ай бұрын

Beech forest. Here in Sweden we find Lactarius volemus this time of the year. I thought it would be the same in Dorset.

@deejayk5939 2 ай бұрын

Wow,those branches ! So crunchy 😂

@regina_phalange 2 ай бұрын

I think we heard more stern words from Eva in this video than all of the other ones combined, you tell that bottle Eva!! 🤣🤣

@Vicki_Benji 2 ай бұрын

Always love seeing Eva, and she cares about the planet! 🐾

@balaclavabob001 2 ай бұрын

I had a really nice crop ( well it was only one meal tbh ) of morels from the bark chippings I put on the garden a few years ago . Never happened again but it was a nice suprise when it did and they were delicious.

@xxPenjoxx 2 ай бұрын

The raspberries were super late this year in Aberdeenshire. Was able to pick some last week. Makes me wonder what brambles will be like this year. They are my favourite to pick for jam, and ice cream.

@sarahstrong7174 2 ай бұрын

The magical headmasters must have been out collecting chanterelles before you. You can easily recognise them with their robes & morter boards or occasionally pointy wizards hats, carrying baskets & red spotted handkercheifs on sticks.

@IMBlakeley 2 ай бұрын

The blackberries here seem to have peaked a couple of weeks ago, still got some but a lot are looking a bit shrivelled while some are still in flower or green.

@craftyrouze 2 ай бұрын

Ha, I just learned the English name for the very mushroom I know and am comfortable at picking. Found plenty in Norway last week, if you fancy a trip 🤭 Mushrooms there were massive and provided a free dinner for the holidays

@LeeHutch89 2 ай бұрын

Costal/Shell Fish foraging would be great and interesting to watch. There's a great channel called Fish Locker with tonnes of information on costal foraging.

@AtomicShrimp 2 ай бұрын

Yeah the Fish Locker is a great channel

@faggieff911 2 ай бұрын

You may have been out for a duck as far as mushrooms are concerned, but for the moss-lovers in the audience, this video was a real treat.

@TTLVID 2 ай бұрын

I was told that blackberry flowers start off pink and change to white once they've been pollenated as a signal to the insects that makes them go to the ones that need pollenation to increase efficiency and maximise fruit/seed production, I'm not sure if that's true as I've not looked into it but it sounds like a feasible adaptation.

@AtomicShrimp 2 ай бұрын

Some flowers do exhibit such changes of colour as they age (so the older ones still provide a long-distance signal for bees, but the colour difference directs them to the nectar when they get close) - I don't know if it's true of blackberries; I will have to look out for that

@TTLVID 2 ай бұрын

@@AtomicShrimp the intricate web of coevolution, there's so much going on that we don't understand fully. We're just the newcomers to the party.

@Deipnosophist_the_Gastronomer 2 ай бұрын

😁 Yes, Larch, I could recognise them from quite a long way away

@garshanarny 2 ай бұрын

You missed a great opportunity to be attacked by that plastic bottle to see if Eva would try to help.

@all2funnycomments724 2 ай бұрын

nice play on the book "The curious case of the dog in thr nighttime"😊

@nunnabeeswax2397 2 ай бұрын

Just put that black receptacle in the basket and you will no longer have an empty basket. 😂 My dog barks at the craziest things when we take him for walks: pine cones, sticks, and sometimes nothing. 😂

@reijngoud 2 ай бұрын

An empty basket, but a full mind

@thermonuclearwarhead 2 ай бұрын

If you ever happen to find yourself in northern Norway in the right bit of autumn I'd happily show you a spot where you can pick as much as you want/need :)

@uutdiegodzilla3821 2 ай бұрын

For good look, Eva did not share the fate of the dog in Mark Haddon's wonderful book! ❤️

@lizreid2449 2 ай бұрын

Omg! I think i have dewberries inatead of black berries! I've left part of my garden overgrown for wildlife for a couple of years and this year thought i would get some of the berries off the brambles. Thought they looked all mis sized but didnt think anything of it....and now i have an answer!

@gerardmcquade9102 2 ай бұрын

one of my cats used to hiss at different things too

@molybdomancer195 2 ай бұрын

I used to ride as a teenager. One horse at the stables decided that wheelbarrows were the scariest thing ever. Made it interesting riding out of the stable yard as ever stable has at least one wheelbarrow

@violettracey 2 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@seasmacfarlane6418 2 ай бұрын

You weren't exactly empty handed... Eva found you a superb specimen of vetus oleum utrem.😊.

@milksheihk 2 ай бұрын

The Rove Beetles we have in Australia(which I think are introduced) can spit a blistering agent, their internal fluids are also a blistering agent if you squash them with bare skin.

@brianartillery 2 ай бұрын

They are properly bad tempered insects - they will bite, too. I picked up a 'Devil's Coach Horse', as we call them, to get it off a path so it didn't get trodden on. I got a bite on my finger, almost as painful as a Horsefly, for my troubles.

@terranceparsons5185 2 ай бұрын

Eva the eco-warrior! 😂😂 one can imagine she'd been trained or something.

@SunnyThief 2 ай бұрын

Didn't know wild hybrid berries were a thing, that's really cool!

@edtuckerartist 2 ай бұрын

Eva sees a dark foul smelling creature hiding under those leaves warns the humans it could be dangerous. Mike agrees that it's dangerous but not in the same way Eva would think is dangerous.