Mushroom Foraging Day Trip in Hohen Neuendorf

Discover the forest's wild treasures as a local guide introduces you to mushroom foraging near Berlin.

KEY FACTS

• Distance & duration: 5 km walking, 4 hours from start to closing, break times along the way
• Language: Our community language is English, German mushroom names can also be provided upon request
• Difficulty: Easy – walking on marked paths / roads, flat terrain, relaxed pace.
• Price: Sliding scale 55€ / 42€ / 30€ or pay what you can (includes foraged snacks)
• Group size: Limited to 14 people (Dandelion bookings not RSVP count)

WHY SHOULD YOU GO?
What is more iconic of oncoming autumn than brightly-colored mushrooms poking out of the forest floor? Bring out the foraging basket, because it's that time of year again, when these crucial, mysterious members of our ecosystem pop up to fruit & spread their spores – and provide tasty meals to the critters around them, including us humans!

Porcini, chanterelle, parasol, chicken of the woods, puffball, oyster… Wild mushrooms are famously prized for their delicious, complex flavors. With a little searching, even us city-dwellers can find kilos of delicious fungi almost right outside our front doors, thanks to the amazing forests around Berlin. Yet, as is well-known, when it comes to mushrooms it takes knowledge and experience to distinguish the delectable from the deadly!

Join Simka (they/them) for an early autumn adventure into the forest around Hohen Neuendorf, where we will get acquainted with the most common & delicious edible mushrooms growing in this area – no experience necessary.

Together we'll explore the forest floor and learn the basics of how to find, identify, collect, and prepare the wild edible mushrooms that are currently in season. Here you will learn which mushrooms to stay away from – and how to get confident enough to bring your own harvest home.

Fungi play crucial, unseen roles in our ecosystem. Yet only when they fruit do we see them above the forest floor in the form of mushrooms, which come in an enormous diversity of shapes, colors, sizes, textures, smells, and flavors. With around 10,000 species of fungi in Europe alone, there is so much to discover!

Because fungi are such fickle fruits and their appearance is determined by many factors, including the weather, there's no guarantee the conditions will be right for an abundant harvest. But there's always something around to fill the foraging basket – so in case the mushrooms end up more sparse than we hoped for, we'll take a closer look at the delicious edible plants & herbs that line the path instead.

Our mushroom hike will take us through beautiful autumn forest scenery, including past a 500-year-old oak tree and alongside a picturesque lake, where we will pause for a picnic lunch including some foraged snacks to taste. There will be plenty of time to relax, explore, and take in the serene surroundings.

SECURE YOUR SPOT & GET YOUR TICKET HERE:
https://dandelion.events/e/n2d0n

You must register & buy your ticket via Dandelion to secure your spot!

A note on pricing & philosophy from Simka:

I offer my foraging tours on a sliding scale / pay-what-you-can basis, because it's a deep value of mine that this learning – which radically connects us with ourselves, the land, and one another – should be accessible for everyone.

However, I do rely on this income!

That means: if you have the means, pay the full fee, or more.

If you don't have the means, please feel fully invited to pay whatever you can.

And if you want to come, but genuinely cannot afford any extra expense, reach out to me directly for a 100% discount, no questions asked. I have absolutely been there, I see you, and I want you here.

I'm trying to do things differently, because it matters to me. Please join me in the complexity of building a better, more equal world!