Like much other forest fayre, Chestnuts have been, on the whole, low on the ground and poor quality this season. The bases of Chestnut trees are covered with small, loose nuts; only a small number of trees are producing nuts worth collecting. In Wilverley several trees producing good sized nuts were found, one opposite the Naked Man was particularly fruitful; though they were the exceptions. It's the squirrels and other woodland creatures I feel for, this years poor harvest will have left them wanting. Although, it's a lesson to us too. One thing that has become very clear this year is how devastating the wrong weather can be to wild resources; if we were relying on wild foods to provide a proportion, or all, of our food requirements, we would be very worried now.
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