 So I'm just going to introduce My story to you to just give some background on how I came to be foraging for a living and gathering Wild plants as a job, which is I have to say it's my dream job and I'm very satisfied to be doing that It all started when I was about six years old. My grandfather took me out one morning it was quite a cold winter morning and He knew something about the wild mushrooms that grew in the land Surrounding his house. So I remember stepping outside the door I can't remember if I saw it first or if he pointed it out But we're looking across the field and there's this strange object. That's a different color to the grass Sort of about 150 yards away And either way we started looking and walking towards it He knew what it was and I didn't and we got closer and closer and gradually this shape became clear What it was was a huge parasol mushroom about this size And it really was you know shaped like an all-naked beautiful Ladies parasol and he said, you know, you can eat that we're gonna we're gonna get that on the way back and we'll eat it and then we went right into the woods and You know You might think it stage managed it to make sort of the maximum impression on a small child But he wasn't that kind of person. I know he didn't do it, but the next two mushrooms that we found one was a one was a Deep purple Mushroom with a really sweet kind of mealy smell. So it looked amazing. It smelled amazing And a couple of minutes later we found that was called a wood bluet by the way a couple of minutes later We found something called an ivory clitorcibe It's it's sort of an aqua blue on the top and it smells very very strongly of aniseed And when we took it back to the house later, we I found out it tastes strongly of aniseed, too So that was my kind of initiation into foraging and The thought that really got implanted in my mind during that experience Was something which is pretty much stayed with me ever since and I sort of guided that the Interest that I've had and the sort of quest to discover wild foods And it is there is treasure in the woods and fields