Age no longer let's me wander the woods. These walks gave me much pleasure in past years. Walking with A. Shrimp is quite wonderful. Thank you.

What a wealth of knowledge you have. I am truly thankful that you are sharing this with the world

Mr. Shrimps laughing and wheezing while Eva zooms around was fantastic and wholesome🤣💜

these videos are therapeutic in their own unique way i have no interest in foraging but its nice to have in the background whilst doing coursework

It's a magical thing when a dog does zoomies

Your reverence for nature is awe inspiring. You're almost like a modern day druid.

Its amazing that this video has some age on it but he still comes back to heart and reply to some, Amazing content!

I love how your dog is just zooming everywhere it’s so funny lol

If I was a child, my imagination would be overwhelmed. Even as a 60yr old adult my mind is whirling. Thank you for showing us what we have no access to, yet in our minds we can wander there. Thank you, kind sir.

For someone who lives in the uk and is amazed by the outdoors this has been more useful to me than 6 years of Science lessons

Please attach a Go Pro to your dog so we can see what it looks like at her perspective as she nyooms around

You are such an interesting guy . I love the variety on your channel and the education that comes with it. I'm totally envious that you have the New forest to enjoy. Lucky man

The green wood cup is such a rich beautiful color, lovely to see. I'm stuck at home with a broken leg. Thanks for taking us along on your woodland walks! I feel like I'm right there.

I'm so glad i found this channel. It's like an escape from this populated place. Such a magical and beautiful place

As a city boi, i really envy people like you who can just find delicious, healthy, and natural snacks in the woods

For those interested in the purple mushroom found, I Googled the name and glad I did. It's a rare mushroom to find. The page I found said this about it's 'culinary uses' : 'Although many authorities state that the Violet Webcap, Cortinarius violaceus, is a good edible mushroom, there are at least two sound reasons for not gathering this species. The first is its rarity: many seasoned forayers with decades of fungi hunting behind them have never seen this beautiful mushroom, and so unless a sample is required for detailed study its seems wrong to remove any from their natural habitat. The second reason for shunning this and all other members of the genus Cortinarius is that quite a lot of them are seriously poisonous and a few have proven track records as deadly killers (Cortinarius rubellus and Cortinarius orellanus in particular contunue to take lives every year). If it has a cortina (cobweb-like veil) over the gills when young, my advice is not to try eating it. '

I just wanted to reach out and thank you. I've just gone through a terrible personal tragedy, and haven't slept much in the past two days. Your videos are the only thing keeping me from being truly a miserable wreck right now, and reminding me there's still so much I have left to do and look forward to, and my Ginger would want me to enjoy whatever time I have left, even if it has to be without her waiting for me to come back home to her. So if you ever find yourself getting frustrated and discouraged about KZfaq and it's constantly shifting almighty algorithm just remember that there are some of us out there who appreciates you for you, and everything you share with us is another precious memory we get to hold. Thanks very much for everything, I hope you are well and having a great day!

I have lived away from the new forest for a while now, I love watching this as it brings back good memories of the beautiful new forest scenery. especial the blackberries. I have fond memories of picking blackberries with my Nana and then making blackberry and apple crumble.

Man, this really makes me want to go foraging. I never did it before with the exception of berry picking and mashing em with earthworms for protein. I think I'll skip the earthworms this time round.

I enjoy the wide breadth of knowledge you share in your videos. Thank you for continuing to make random but fascinating content.

I love this kind of foraging videos

Thank you, thank you for this video! This is such a great video to watch specially at a time like this where many like myself are sheltering in place and staying at home.

20:33 that’s a poisonous one, u can tell bc in mario if u collect that mushroom you get hurt

that was so cool, that you found the same old te from your child's past. must have been a huge nostalgia trip!

Your videos are so interesting and unique, and I was really looking forward to checking out your daughters channel, guess it no longer exists - but I'm glad you've kept making content - it really is good quality stuff.

The scam videos got me interested, but these kind of videos got me hooked.

"the beauty of decay" 🧡

The mushroom at 20:38 looks like a violet Cortinarius.

Loved the extra footage ....thank you !!! Wonderful hike and appreciate seeing/ hearing about all the 🍄

Always a pleasure to watch

This is such a nice series to be watching in the current situation.

Why doesn't this hey more views? I binge you walking around in nature and doing cooking stuff aswell. I just love it lol and it's what I like your channel for. So diverse your channel and it's hugely under rated

4:00 I swear when u say animals live in the tree I see a pair of eyes inside it

Thank you for taking us with you on your adventures. Love videos like this.

lovely video. i quite enjoyed the old clip of your kids running around the tree, and your pup frolicking. thank you for sharing :)

A pint and a sandwhich sounds really good😀😀

This is such a lovely video. As someone who can't really access such wilderness yet, this video has been so enjoyable to listen to and experience. You are so knowledgeable about fungi and plants and learning about them as you trek with your dog is so soothing. Feels like I'm watching David Attenborough. Thank you so much for sharing these videos with us. I look forward to more :)

Oh wow what a beautiful forest and Eva running around in this video was having me in stitches she is so funny! Amazing place for all things beautiful brilliant! I so love this channel it's just Amazing x 😁👍

"Eva went full Fenton" had me in a complete laughing fit.

I saw the crocs in the video and wondered about the 15 years being accurate ;P Also the daughter's channel's closed apparently. Shame. I was wondering what was gonna be on there. Probably artsy stuff, I guess.

Great little walk and Info Thanks, some interesting stuff too, Loved it when your dog went whappy, There is alot of Places you can get lost Up The North East (Kielder) and West (Lake District) and Pennine & Dales areas aswell as Exmoor, Dartmoor and the Yorkshire Moors, Sherwood Forest and The New Forest has it's big area's too, If the Americans wanna see some nice countryside Wales and Scotland are pretty good places to start ;)

Very enjoyable and educational trek through the New Forest. Eva is hilarious!

Relieved to know I'm not the only one who goes looking for young specimens in the forest.

Empty basket but a very happy, furry little friend!❤

You need to come to the Pacific Northwest it is mushroom Paradise with thousands upon thousands of Acres of public land that nobody lives in

Here is some info about that mushroom we saw on your foraging video in the forest. Cortinarius violaceus, commonly known as the violet webcap or violet cort, is a fungus in the webcap genus Cortinarius native across the Northern Hemisphere. The fruit bodies are dark purple mushrooms with caps up to 15 cm (6 in)

You always want the younger firmer ones

Of all the plants you find and show us I finally spotted one and named it before you did. The sundew! They grow near me. I was very surprised by how small they are.

I have eaten puffballs before. When they are solid white all the way through, they are okay to consume. You just have to pick them very early to get them in that stage. They have been known to cause upset tummies in some people

Nyom nyom!! So glad your patience was rewarded. Really enjoyed to watch your adventures in the forest with Eva... Thanks for sharing your wealth of information!! 🙏 I love your ethos of always leaving some for nature and who might come behind 💟 I didn't get to watch your other videos yet (although I will soon...) but you say 'try to' dry some. I can recommend the Excalibur 9 tray dehydrator with timer for preservation for your winter stash...not just mushrooms but tomatoes, pears, apples, figs, and all kinds of things like seed crackers, fruit leathers and things that cost the earth in health food shops. I invested in one a few years ago and it works a lot at this time of the year!!

your videos have given me a new appreciation for fungi, they truly are beautiful- and sometimes tasty!

Thank you for your time and knowledge....

What a lovely bit of history/ nostalgia with the hollow birch tree and the old footage of your children 👍

Loving your videos so thankyou, it's lovely to see when it's difficult to get out in weird times :)

I grew up foraging & eating what you call an “earth ball” mushroom, I’m now 41, we all try to get them every season, I’m in in MT 🇺🇸 But we call them puff ball mushrooms because when they’ve gone to far, the beautiful yummy off white innards rots & then like most organic things turns to dust, but the ball opens a hole in the top & waits to be stepped on, to spread its pores. Wild to me unless we have a different species, that some are missing out on such literal HUGE delicious mushrooms, again, maybe the ones my friends & whole family have been harvesting for decades are indeed different? Love the vids!

I schooled in Lymington from ages 13 - 15 and a half Now 50yrs old...Hated the school as borded there was a council run boarding school...Nice staff Cack Kids

It's great to see someone in touch with nature. I remember going through the new forest many years ago. I now live in the USA where there is some very nice countryside. I do miss some of the UK countryside.

This is one of my favourite videos on KZfaq.

I love the flashback from 15 years ago

We all love Eva!

There's nothing I love more than watching people talk about some really niche things they love

You know what? I like these videos a lot. You’re very wholesome and give us interesting facts, and I’m just very curious about the history of anything, really, and mushrooms are a very nice historical food and plant!

Bet my man knows where the magic mushrooms are lol top channel

I'd just like to say a big thank you mate! I'm an Arboricultural student and part of my course is fungus and plant identification. Your videos are really helping me out I appreciate it!

You live in a beautiful area. There’s so much to learn from your channel thanks for sharing this with us.

I’ve been watching a lot of your food and foraging videos as of late. They’re always so wonderful, informing, and engaging. This one with the one hollow tree and footage with your kids playing around it made me tear up (happy tears)

That is a beautiful forest you got on there. Very nice to get to see it.

Thank you for this video. It's nice to see this on your channel after binge watching all the scam bait videos ;) The memory of your children made me smile, I look forward to many memories of my nephew and niece. I love nature and look forward to sharing my interests with them. Thanks again.

What great videos, honestly! I can't stop watching your content no matter how old some videos are!

I'm glad you were able to get your oyster mushrooms in the end,, I loved the sundew plants I've been trying to get some from various garden centers and nursery's, but with no luck,, they are beautiful to look at, and great for getting rid of flys and unwanted pests, we don't live near a forest, and wish I knew where I could get them in a forest, that would be awesome,I've a nice collection of cacti, and succulents, it would be great to have around them protecting my cacti!!!!great video, take care and stay safe.

My best inexpensive gateway spot from crappy Southampton . Close to Rufus stone is one of my favourite spots. Nomansland is great too.

Really enjoyable video 5/5 Thank you so much making these man!

@Atomic Shrimp do you recomend any books for identifying wild edible mushrooms? Would love to get into it

Laughed my head off when you said she went full Fenton. 😂

I believe that was a violet webcap, considered endangered within the British isles. very informative video as usual, thanks.

The flashback was amazing!

I really learn very much with your videos, thank you very much

The oyster mushrooms that grow on my trees in the northern Dordogne, are usually a charcoal grey, on top! However, they have been absent for several years now, probably due to changes in the recent weather. We get some years when mushrooms of all sorts appear everywhere, and then several others where there is almost none. .

Eva made me laugh. 😂 🐾 I enjoy your walks.

17:08 -- Nice kids. Lucky dad. :)

17:24 For some reason this reminds me of visiting, about fifteen years ago, the primary school I attended, to find there was still _one_ teacher who had taught there when I was a student, ending in 1990, and she mentioned to me that the next autumn, the daughter of a girl who was in my grade one class would be starting grade one. The older I get, the clearer it becomes... _tempus fugit, ergo carpe diem!_

The violet mushroom is "safe" to eat if that identification is sound, but very bitter-tasting, so I wouldn't. There's a process to extract the purple colouring for it that was used as a natural purple food colouring for some time, but the couple of explanations I found of it didn't work out for me. I'm sure I was just doing it wrong. Even if you like the prospect of bitter mushrooms, I wouldnt forage it myself though: in my area, at least, there's several very poisonous mushrooms that look similar. Not worth the risk.

It's interesting just how many plants/fungi there are in common between where you are and where I am in Louisiana. The bracken ferns, wax myrtle, chanterelles, beech, oak, holly, sundews, etc. are all present in Louisiana, even if they are slightly different species. I've also found quite a few oyster mushrooms growing on fallen beech trees in my area, it's almost uncanny how similar the sight of the beech tree covered with clusters of oyster mushrooms is compared to what I've seen in person 7,400 km away from where this was filmed.

Loved watching

I live near the new forest and go walking there quite often. It is a very interesting place to explore.

i love these videos, so calming.

I wish you lived in north western Canada. I can't seem to find anyone online to learn to forage from where I live.

This an amazing kind of video. I love this channel so much lol I live in Ontario, Canada, and I can't wait to get out and do some exploring just like this with my wife (and maybe a new canine companion).

Really great video

That fallen Beach looks like a great habitat for a hive of bees.

Your commentary is amazing.

shrimp: calmly talking about nature eva: I AM SPEED

Watching this in 2020 as it came up in my recommendations (I'm subscribed as well). I would have never guessed that alot of the weird looking growths I found in the forest as a lad were edible.

Dude atomic shrimp love the vids homie

The is such a relaxing video. Thank you for uploading this.

This was a very insightful and educational video. Thank you for sharing your beautiful trip to the new forest (:

Very nice cadence of your voice, very nice video, Sir.

There are so little people who shoot these foraging vids. I love foraging I wish to see more people doin it

Eva , happy happy doggo .

Love this & your other posts.....very interesting...thanks