October’s bounty: A guide to autumn picking and foraging in Belgium

Autumn is the time of plenty, when trees are drooping heavily with the last fruits of the year and thick-skinned gourds lie swollen on the ground. The season is so associated with agricultural practices of harvest-time that the Dutch word for autumn is herfst, literally “harvest”.The harvest tradition is so deeply ingrained in our collective unconscious that even stalwart city dwellers get …

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