How to Identify the Field Mushroom (Agaricus Campestris)

This week we go foraging for edible mushrooms and I teach you how to identify the delicious field mushroom along with its bigger cousin the horse mushroom (agaricus arvensis). Enjoy! 🍄
#foraging #wildfood #ediblemushrooms
Some more plants to look out for in September:
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Some useful foraging and identification books:
Mushrooms - Roger Philips
www.amazon.co.uk/Mushrooms-Ro...
Foraging Pocket Guide - Wild Food UK
www.amazon.co.uk/Foraging-Poc...
Edible and Medicinal Wild Plants of Britain and Ireland - Robin Harford
www.amazon.co.uk/Edible-Medic...
Food For Free - Richard Mabey
www.amazon.co.uk/Food-Free-Co...
The Forager's Calendar - John Wright
www.amazon.co.uk/Foragers-Cal...
Some amazing foraging channels:
Wild Food UK
/ wildfooduk1
The FUNgi Guy (A great introduction to mycology)
/ thefungiguy
Coastal Foraging With Craig Evans
/ @coastalforagingwithcr...
Vincent Petit (Amazing videos)
/ @vincentpetit2109
Ashdown Forage:
/ ionaskoda

[@jharris888]

How as this channel not got more subs? Great work. Thanks

[@Fieldstudy_]

Thankyou! The community is growing slowly but surely 🙏🏻

[@housewithaview]

I’ve got some in my horse pasture!! Yeah! Your video has been the best for info! Thank you!

[@housewithaview]

I’m in BC Canada and we’ve just had a very cool wet May.

[@Fieldstudy_]

Amazing! Do some research into common hazardous lookalikes in your area, the information in this video is true of the UK and most of Europe but I am unsure about the edibility of fungi in your part of the world. I hope you’re having a great day and Thankyou for watching 😁

[@Sam-iu8nb]

I found about 2kg of these while walking on Monday. The earthy flavour of them is unlike anything you can buy at the super market.

[@Fieldstudy_]

That’s a good haul! My spots aren’t producing as well as usual at the moment. Hoping for a good few flushes before winter 🤞 Where in the country are you?

[@guitarnotator]

Another way to learn is use youtube using the 2 or 3 witness technuique. If all the proffesional channels are saying the same thing you can be sure that is what it is and you sir are very proffesional.

[@preong8988]

I really apprrciate the knowledge shared✨

[@hilversumcricket2676]

Excellent thank you!

[@deanmalpas9798]

Great information thanks m8👍🏻

[@christineh8714]

Very clear and helpful, thank you! You've inspired me to go out and look.

[@Fieldstudy_]

Best of luck!

[@orangejuice43]

Thoughtful, informative and hilarious as ever. Great work!

[@Fieldstudy_]

Cheers mate ☺️ hope you had a good weekend!

[@orangejuice43]

@@Fieldstudy_ I actually went out for a walk through some woods today. The first time I felt confident enough in my ID to pick some mushrooms and have them in a stir fry! Managed to bag some amethyst deceiver, bay bolete and common puffballs. (And a pocket full of sweet chestnut 😉) buzzing!

[@Fieldstudy_]

@@orangejuice43 Oh delicious! Absolutely love a bay bolete, I haven’t seen any amethyst deceivers in my usual spots this year but I have my fingers crossed for this week 🤞

[@thiefonthecross7552]

So helpful!

[@Fieldstudy_]

Glad you think so! I hoe you have a great weekend and if you have any questions just let me know 🌿

[@paulaross5042]

Great, thank you. I took a punt and picked a horse mushroom today, now you’ve confirmed the colour of the scales I’ll be popping back to pick a couple more 😊

[@Fieldstudy_]

Glad I could help Paula! Whilst I don’t advise taking a punt when picking any mushroom, I’m glad you’re out there trying to make a positive ID 😃 All the best

[@tobyharries7532]

Great video, thank you :)

[@Fieldstudy_]

My pleasure! Glad you found it helpful ✌🏻

[@icezizim]

Your channel should have way more views you put out alot of great content keep it up

[@Fieldstudy_]

Thankyou, means a lot 😀

[@shaunlaverick5793]

Nice video..thanks for sharing.👍

[@Fieldstudy_]

Thanks Shaun! Just been out willing this weeks video, will be out on Tuesday ☺️

[@adiem1653]

Brilliant guide many thanks Over the years I've seen several of these but been too frightened to pick them - now I'm getting into foraging I will have a great idea if edible or not

[@Fieldstudy_]

Glad you enjoyed it Adie! Be sure to check out the links in the description - loads of great foragers out there to learn more from ☺️

[@beccafirebird]

Great video. Instant subscribe. When I was young, my mum would send us down the field for horse and field mushrooms. I remember being told about the yellow stainer.

[@Fieldstudy_]

Ah Thankyou very much ☺️ I’m really tempted to get some t-shirts made with ‘beware the yellow stainer’ written on them like an old horror movie poster haha

[@beccafirebird]

@@Fieldstudy_ Love it! 😆 I do like a slogan T shirt!

[@adambaggott8957]

Thank you for an excellent video and guide! I am new to foraging and this area of study as a whole but find it incredibly interesting and channels like yours really help when feeling unsure about what to pick! Also, Is the sweatshirt or Fieldstudy patch that is on it up for sale anywhere?

[@Fieldstudy_]

Hello Adam! Glad you’re enjoying the videos 😀 And sadly not, I got myself a few patches made and they cost me an arm and a leg haha. I think in future I might work on a few T-shirt designs if people are interested?

[@PandoraChaser2]

Lovely ID video and what awesome examples of the Field Mushroom you found :) Plus of course the Yellow Stainer and other Amanita tips you posted, to avoid. I was lucky enough to find BLUSHERS the other day and not the Pantherinas ,or Grey Spotted ones! So I am, well..., let's say, I am working on something ;)

[@Fieldstudy_]

Oh lovely! Congratulations

[@PandoraChaser2]

@@Fieldstudy_ P.s If I never post again....I got the skirt pattern wrong! ;)

[@SubmarinrJoe]

Great video! I've learned a lot by watching this a few times now! Question on harvesting for best flavor (or ripeness?) - should I wait for the veil to have separated? Or are they better when that veil is still attached to the cap?

[@Fieldstudy_]

Glad to hear it! So I think field mushrooms are delicious at every stage of growth, but each can have it’s different uses. Button mushrooms for their texture then fully open specimens in dishes where you want to impart maximum mushroomyness. I also find that older specimens that are maybe past their best (providing they don’t have too many maggot holes) are great for dehydrating and making a rich mushroom powder. The perfect background flavour to build winter soups on. Thanks for the question and I wish you the best of luck, the field mushrooms are just starting to flush again here on the Island. Hoping to get a nice full basket tomorrow morning 😀

[@neonfear]

Mushroom people are weird but great ☺️

[@Fieldstudy_]

Yes we certainly are 😂😃

[@OR4NG3SKY]

Was you in Suffolk in this video?? I'm new at foraging so your helping me learn

[@Fieldstudy_]

Hey! I’m down on the Isle of Wight but but there is certainly some beautiful countryside for foraging up in Suffolk, is that where you’re based? Ah cool! Be sure to check out the links I put in the descriptions of my videos, there are some great resources and teachers out there nowadays to help beginners ☺️ Thanks for watching and if you ever have any questions just drop me a comment or message 🌱

[@dawsonrivers23]

Thanks the ones I found are yellow stainers

[@LavenderLori406]

How about size, what the inside of the stem looks like. I've not found so many on my land here in western Montana as I have this spring. There's something to be said for not having sprayed any chemical for nigh 20 years (since I've owned the place) . I noticed also that many of them, and they seem to be coming up in large rings, have bites taken out of them and my boy cat loves to eat them and others! This is what caused me to research them. I've had them for dinner every night!

[@Fieldstudy_]

Hello! So this video is useful for differentiating between Agaricus campestris and potentially hazardous lookalikes in the UK and Northern Europe. I have no expertise when discussing the fungi of North America so I would really consult someone with more localised knowledge. Sounds like you’re doing a great job at making your property a fantastic place for mycorrhizal fungi to live though, keep up the good work!

[@user-ir1pb5et6q]

Found some good looking mushrooms smell mushrooms but hav yellow staining any recomendations

[@Fieldstudy_]

Hello! As I said in the video if the mushrooms you have found pass all of the initial identification tests but are staining yellow then they are potentially toxic so do not eat them. They could be Agaricus Xanthodermis or ‘the yellow stainer’ which could lead to gastric upset or poisoning. Keep on looking though! Field mushrooms are very common and popping up all over the place right now 😀 best of luck

[@rebeccasallen4905]

How can I reproduce field mushrooms?

[@corgeekshoozkeb]

1: Spore print/tissue sample to agar in a VERY STERILE ENVIROMENT with STERILE MATERIALS! 2: Agar transfer to liquid culture 3: Liquid culture to substrate (spawn) 4: Add spawn to more substrate 5: Let it inoculate in a dark room 6: once colonized fully (all mycelium, 100% white) allow to fruit with humidity and ZERO CONTAMINATION! 100% STERILE! 7: harvest gently with knife for second flush

[@baby.ribz.]

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