Finding wild foods may be fashionable, but 'gangs' of commercial pickers are said to be making foraging unsustainable Poor old Sonata Sliuzaite only went to the woods to pick some mushrooms, an expedition that this week landed her with a criminal record and a bill for £364 in fines and court fees. The nurse insisted she was merely following in the foraging traditions of her Lithuanian roots when she set out to find some dinner in Epping forest, and that she was unaware of bylaws against mushroo...
Finding wild foods may be fashionable, but 'gangs' of commercial pickers are said to be making foraging unsustainable Poor old Sonata Sliuzaite only went to the woods to pick some mushrooms, an expedition that this week landed her with a criminal record and a bill for £364 in fines and court fees. The nurse insisted she was merely following in the foraging traditions of her Lithuanian roots when she set out to find some dinner in Epping forest, and that she was unaware of bylaws against mushroo...
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