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Hi Sam. Today I'm not in Oslo. I'm about 60 kilometers east of
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Aslo. I'm out in the countryside surrounded by farms and fields here now. I'm planning to
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go into the forest to do some berry picking and go search for some animals or animal tracks
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There's a lot of edible stuff in the forest and a lot of mushrooms
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Although not all mushrooms are edible like this one. This is a variety of a flu soap
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It said that the Vikings, before they went into battle, they would take a few bites of this
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mushroom and they would go berserk. I don't know if that is true, I'm not going to try, but it's always safe to stay away from
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mushrooms that you don't trust. Anyways, there are a lot of edible mushrooms here as well
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For example, chanterelle. So let's see if we can find some chanterelle
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What's important when you pick mushrooms is that you always bring a little knife with you
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because you don't want to pull the whole mushroom up with its stem because then you won't come back
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again. So it's very important to cut off the stem. There you have it. Now the stem is
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still there and it will continue to spread the mushroom out. There's a lot of animals in the forest here
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You have moose and a lot of forest birds here deer A fox there a wolf even Very solemn that you see any animals though because they hear you or they see you much before you hear or see them
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However there are some animals, especially the moose, they leave a lot of marks on the landscape
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And something in Norwegian is called Aritroch. That's where the moose tends to walk because it follows regular paths in the forest
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And I have one right in front. Right in front of me here, you can see how the moose has been going up here
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You can also see how it's been scratching his antlers here on the tree
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I walked for quite a while here now and I've come to an area here, a secret area, which is a very
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There is an amazing amount of berries, especially this year. It's a very good year for berries
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This berry is called Keckling, black crowberry in English. Birds love to eat this berry, but for humans the skin can feel a bit hard
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So they're better used for making wine, jelly or juice. I remember when I was a kid, we used to call these for fake blueberries, because they look like blueberries, but they're not blue on the inside and they're not as tasty
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And also the bush that they grow on is taller than a normal blueberry bush
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So it's easy to see the difference. In Norwegian they called Brockbad and I believe in English they called like bog bilberry or bog blueberry This berry here you might recognize This is what we call in Norwegian titterber Or in Swedish they call it Lingon
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English, you call them Lingen berries. They're famous because they go with the Swedish meatballs
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They're not so good to eat just directly like this. Have a bit of sour flavor, but you can make a really good jam from
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them. What I'm really looking for today though is these guys here. These are
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the real blueberries. They look like this. They're blue on the inside. They're very
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sweet. They have a lot of vitamins and antioxidants in them and the plant looks pretty much like
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this one. To be able to pick as fast as possible I use a bear plucker, a berry picker
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a really smart tool which enables me to pick 10 to 20 liters of berries in just a few hours time
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I'm up here now at an area which is called Norwegian for a myr
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Myr is like a wetland or a bogland And one plant which is very characteristic and that this one it called Myr Ull so like wetland wall It an arctic and a subarctic species so you find it all over Norway
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Okay, I just saw a moose running about 100 meters away, so I sneak up on it, see if I can get some footage
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So I was sitting right over on that little island, far over there
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When I heard the moose, and here's the evidence. So here's some fresh mousse droppings
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So that moose probably shot himself when he saw me and he took off in that direction
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just behind the camera. I stuck around for a while to see if he would come back, but he was nowhere to be seen
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So I headed back to do some more berry picking. Well, I hope you enjoy this video from a Norwegian forest
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I got some work to do so I better get to it
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But I'm curious, what is your favorite forest berry? Please just leave a comment below
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If you liked the video, hit the like button and I'll see you soon again
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Until then, take care. And all bra
