Perfect outdoor escapes: In search of wild greens

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Mushrooms Of Uru to act as a field guide to the mushrooms commonly found in the city—some of these include Fairy Ink Caps (Coprinellus disseminatus), Pencil Shaving Mushrooms (Podoscypha petalodes) and Artist’s Conk (Ganoderma applanatum). Information about upcoming walks are available on their Instagram page.

Also read: Perfect outdoor escapades: How to go herping in your own city In Maharashtra, a regenerated rainforest in the foothills of the Sahyadris called Vanvadi has grown into a biodiversity hot spot, managed by a farming collective that conducts regular forest food walks, relying on the knowledge of the Adivasi community that live there. During a walk over the weekend of 6-7 July at Vanvadi, a group of foragers from Mumbai and Pune found over a dozen edible greens, including loth (or lote) and alu (taro) leaves and shevla (dragon stalk yam) greens, which they cooked for dinner.

Vanvadi announces forthcoming walks on its website Vanvadi.in and Instagram page. In Goa, hyperlocal travel firm Khoj-aao! curates unique experiences for nature lovers and adventurers, including backyard nature trails focused on identifying and foraging local flora and fungi.

Gowri Varanashi founded Wilderness Ways in 2020 to reconnect people with nature through nature walks and retreats. “There are various components to these walks, such as enhancing one’s sensory awareness to smells, sounds and sights around us, as well as accessing ancient knowledge systems—foraging, starting a fire, building a shelter, foraging fibres and weaving them, understanding what sort of material, when to harvest, how to process—which we are forgetting because we are so disconnected from nature," says Varanashi, who is based in Karnataka and travels between