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Pommes, miel et champignons en Fête – 9 Octobre 2011

Looking forward to this year’s apples, honey and mushrooms festival in Brittany. Last year’s was an unforgettable day with an incredibly wide selection (and exhibition) of fresh wild fungi on display. The festival is split across two sites – Brassparts and Saint-Rivoal – which are...

Tour de France

Maillot Jaune

Recovering today after over-indulging. We went to Kerchopine, a beautiful little village in the Scorff Valley, to watch the Tour De France and it became a really long day.   When the tour is on, it’s almost impossible to cross the route, as the police...

Wonderful woodlands

Love rural France?

Join us this autumn in Brittany for one of our week-end breaks! These five-day long weekend breaks, based in Brittany’s spectacular Vallée du Scorff, offer an opportunity to forage for wild mushrooms, identifying those you can eat and those you should avoid. Led by a...

Mushrooms anyone?

Foraging for wild mushrooms in Brittany

Hello there and welcome to our first post on www.fungiforet.com – the website that celebrates foraging and eating mushrooms – a la Française ! Brittany has the perfect climate for wild mushrooms. They grow in the woodlands, pastures and roadside verges. The French know what...