Right, Friday + the upcoming week is basically my only chance this year of getting some picking done.
There are 2 or 3 places I'm thinking of going: Hopefully one each day.
The first is a lovely hill with human and animal presence. Some fields on it are used as farm crops but most are left for the wildlife. It is approximately 200m, mostly grass or bracken-y kind of stuff and is very much in the wind.
The second is the fields around this hill. I think a lot of them are open to hikers but some i know are strictly off limit farm fields. Most fields have fairly well kept grass as far as I'm aware and haven't ever actually scouted these fields but were suggested by my newb friends who I'm picking with after they heard my description of whats needed.
The third is the woodland near the above areas, been there when i was 8. They are big and i think the trees are coniferous. This is all I know I'm afraid.
The fourth is the woodland and fields around my area. The woodland is deciduous, starting to lose leaves. Woodchipping paths are basically area but there is plenty of floor space between trees with ferns and stuff that is easily accessible. There isn't much traffic through the woods but it's next to a fairly busy main road. The fields have sheep and cows and horses in, plenty of poop about most are fairly scruffy long grass with some nice sites.
Since there is a cold spell coming up and this is the only time i can pick probably all year, where do you think sounds best? I was thinking #1 and #4.
Also, none of us will be able to dry out in the air so were thinking about making an alcohol tincture kind of thing.
My plan was to just put them all (in all honesty I'm doubting we'll get much) in a litre bottle with about 500ml 50% smirnoff vodka. All of them still wet. I don't know when we're planning on dosing. I was hoping in the coming week but it looks like it's going to be cold and i tend to dislike tripping in the cold so a long term store would be good as well.
Any ideas? I'm not sure how I can make it so that we aren't consuming much fungal matter, just psilocX. I also don't want to be drinking much alcohol with it, probably 150ml vodka tops, so an evaporation would be good but would the active ingredients denature in light or warmth?
So many questions, probably should have planned this earlier....
Thoughts?