The Foraging Mermaid

The Foraging Mermaid Run by Marina Muttik 🧜‍♀️
Foraging & mushroom/plant ID courses and content. Based in the 3 counties: Herts / Bucks / Beds.

Time for some more mugolio!This beautiful Korean fir has produced a lot of cones this year, so I’m making some more syru...
23/06/2026

Time for some more mugolio!

This beautiful Korean fir has produced a lot of cones this year, so I’m making some more syrup with it!

My previous iteration is the bottom bowl. On the left is mugolio from Chinese white pine. And I’m currently working through a 2y mature bottle of true mountain pine mugolio. And yes, the flavours do differ!

I simply put into a jar, top with sugar, and leave it to excrete moisture and ferment a little. Key is making sure to top up with sugar as it naturally turns to syrup so it’s always submerged - this is to prevent it going mouldy. Picture 3 is after just 2 days.

19/03/2026

Very excited to finally find some black Morels right in our own garden ! They were very tasty too ☺️ often found in landscaping / garden woodchip as these were.

Very excited to finally find some black Morels right in our own garden ! They were very tasty too ☺️ often found in land...
19/03/2026

Very excited to finally find some black Morels right in our own garden ! They were very tasty too ☺️ often found in landscaping / garden woodchip as these were.

Happy new year everyone 🥳 Finallyyyy after a very long time I have got around to fixing my website articles code and som...
31/12/2025

Happy new year everyone 🥳

Finallyyyy after a very long time I have got around to fixing my website articles code and some improvements this week 😂 doing my day job in my free time is just no fun.

But good news is now I can start adding handy graphics, longer explanatory pieces, and more in an accessible place ! 😄

Also added a subscribe button after a few people asked about being reminded - that’ll let you signup so I can email any upcoming events rather than you all having to watch my social media.

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30/12/2025

Lion’s mane / bearded tooth - Hericium erinaceus 🦁

A very rare mushroom across Europe, and one of the 3 legally protected species in the UK (Sch8 WCA 1981). They colonise dead or dying hardwood, especially ancient beech logs - and so they are particularly affected by habitat loss.

Note: yes, this is a particularly fancy H erinaceus as they sometimes form like this here in the UK - no, it is not the American H americanum before anyone goes there again 🤪

23/12/2025

Looking at Lion’s mane / bearded tooth - Hericium erinaceus 🦁

A very rare mushroom across Europe, and one of the 3 legally protected species in the UK (Sch8 WCA 1981). They colonise dead or dying hardwood, especially ancient beech logs - and so they are particularly affected by habitat loss.

19/12/2025

Jelly rot - Merulius tremellosus

Handmade wreath!Made the base out of woven birch twigs in 2018, and then every year I just weave in various coniferous a...
16/12/2025

Handmade wreath!

Made the base out of woven birch twigs in 2018, and then every year I just weave in various coniferous and planty clippings from my garden and nearby ☺️

Gymnopus montagnei (pod parachute)Tropical fungi in La Macarena, Colombia
28/11/2025

Gymnopus montagnei (pod parachute)

Tropical fungi in La Macarena, Colombia

Powderpuff bracketPtychogaster albus (ex. Postia ptychogaster) These floofy cute fungi like conifers, and are sometimes ...
27/11/2025

Powderpuff bracket
Ptychogaster albus (ex. Postia ptychogaster)

These floofy cute fungi like conifers, and are sometimes mistaken for young lion’s mane / Hericium (which develops into spines and grows on hardwood like beech)

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