<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Larchwood Foragers</title><link>https://larchwoodforagers.com/</link><description>A foraging notebook from the pine forests of the Varėna district: boletus and chanterelle seasons, bog berries, drying, salting, and what to leave standing.</description><language>en</language><item><title>What I walk past on purpose, and why the basket stays light</title><link>https://larchwoodforagers.com/journal/what-i-walk-past-on-purpose/</link><guid>https://larchwoodforagers.com/journal/what-i-walk-past-on-purpose/</guid><description>The ones left standing: look-alikes I will not risk, species I quietly stopped taking, and the places where picking anything at all is a bad idea.</description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Weather signs, moon tables, and what the forest ignores</title><link>https://larchwoodforagers.com/journal/weather-signs-moon-tables-and-the-forest/</link><guid>https://larchwoodforagers.com/journal/weather-signs-moon-tables-and-the-forest/</guid><description>Kitchen rules about the moon, the rye and the mosquitoes, checked against six years of walks: which ones held up here and which quietly did not.</description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2025 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Drying, salting, and a shelf that has to reach May</title><link>https://larchwoodforagers.com/journal/drying-salting-and-the-winter-shelf/</link><guid>https://larchwoodforagers.com/journal/drying-salting-and-the-winter-shelf/</guid><description>How the autumn baskets become winter food here: threading and drying boletus, salting milk caps in a crock, and the failures that taught the method.</description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2025 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bilberries on the ridge, cranberries out on the bog</title><link>https://larchwoodforagers.com/journal/bilberries-ridge-cranberries-bog/</link><guid>https://larchwoodforagers.com/journal/bilberries-ridge-cranberries-bog/</guid><description>Two berry harvests three months and four kilometres apart: a hot July ridge, an October bog that floats, and how to get both of them home whole.</description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Oct 2024 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The two mushroom seasons these pines actually have</title><link>https://larchwoodforagers.com/journal/two-mushroom-seasons-in-the-pines/</link><guid>https://larchwoodforagers.com/journal/two-mushroom-seasons-in-the-pines/</guid><description>Chanterelles from late June, boletus after the August rains: how the two runs differ here, and why the calendar matters less than the nights.</description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Jun 2024 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>