If you need to contact me my email address is john@mushroomhunting.co.uk
My agent (!) is Gordon Wise of Curtis Brown, Haymarket House, 28 - 29 Haymarket,
London SW1Y 4SP 020 7393 4400
My publisher is Bloomsbury.
I am happy to try to identify fungi from photographs (and enjoy seeing photographs that are sent to me) but I cannot promise to always respond. Also I cannot promise that my answer will be accurate (identification from photos is tricky) so you must not depend on my response in deciding whether or not to eat it!
If you take pictures to send do make sure that the top and the bottom are visible and please, no more than four at a time!
Mini biography:
My passion for mushrooms and toadstools began at the age of 14 when I came across what turned out to be a Common Inkcap while I was on holiday in the New Forest. Fungi took a back seat for some years but in 1980 I moved to fungi rich West Dorset and my early interest was reawakened. The remote farm on which I found myself was the perfect place to study the fungi. In 1981 I joined the British Mycological Society and attended many of their forays and meetings. In 1994 I decided to share my accumulated knowledge by teaching the Fungi at adult education classes in Dorchester. I now run fungus forays for several organizations in and around Dorset.
In 2001 I became involved in the River Cottage programs, first of all taking Hugh on a (successful!) Truffle hunt. My involvement in River Cottage has continued and I appear on the programme fairly regularly. I now run several day courses at the River Cottage HQ in East Devon and appear at festivals with the River Cottage team. In 2006 Hugh asked me if I would write the R C Mushroom Handbook and it was published in September 2007. Since then I have written the Edible Seashore and, soon to be published, “Hedgerow”, which deals with Blackberries and Nettles and Hazelnuts and Fat Hen. I have made brief appearances on the telly apart from River Cottage such as on the Paul O’Grady Show (very scary), BBC Breakfast, One Show and a few other foody shows.
Here are a few links which may be of interest:
My big moment in the Observer
In the Bristol News
and BBC Dorset
Thanks for visiting the site!
John
Photographs. Nearly all the photographs on this site are mine. Anyone is very welcome to use them with the following restrictions:
1. They are used for strictly non-commercial purposes.
2. If used on a website they are accompanied by a link to this site’s home page.
3. If published they are credited with “Copyright John Wright 2007”
They are all highly reduced in quality for bandwidth reasons - if you would like a higher definition version please let me know.
Warning: Eating wild fungi can be a wonderful way of enjoying the fruits of nature, but if you get it wrong you may kill yourself. Before you eat anything please read this.
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Below are Amazon links to my three books on foraging. Hedgerow is published on the 3rd of August this year.