We have enjoyed lovely weather around these parts for some time and while that is pleasant enough, it’s time for a couple days of rain. Normally at this time, I’d be thinking about which forests to visit in search of the first chanterelles of the… Read More
This time of year, this blog receives more than its usual number of visitors, and many of those visitors land on my posts about foraging for mushrooms. Yesterday there were 37 visits specifically related to foraging, and 28 of those to a post about preparing… Read More
I spend the morning foraging for lobster and hedgehog mushrooms, and found quite a few. Here is some video… When you find lobster mushrooms, they are often half buried in the forest duff, and can look dirty and unappetizing. If it is scarlet red and… Read More
I wanted to get out to the enchanted mushroom forest this weekend but the only opportunity was going to be an early and quick trip out this morning, so I hit the road at dawn. I’m glad I did because the forest was fairly generous… Read More
Early this morning, I drove up to the enchanted mushroom forest to see if I could find some tasty edibles for dinner. I hadn’t been in the forest since messing up my ankle, and I wasn’t sure how well I’d do, but I picked a… Read More
Somebody landed on this blog after searching “best time for mushroom hunting in Southern Ontario”. Lots of people think the best time is now. I know this because there are a few cars at just about every forest I know and all the obvious places… Read More
Today was an exploration day. The dogs and I found ourselves in some interesting forests today, and as a bonus we found enough mushrooms for a couple dinners. Mostly I found chanterelles. There were a few boletes around but they were mostly not in the… Read More
Enjoyed a great afternoon with my friend Jamie and the dogs foraging for mushrooms. We found mostly chanterelles but also a few hedgehog mushrooms and a couple lobsters. I had expected we would find some boletes and more lobsters, but the quantity of chanterelles (we… Read More
The Mushroom Hunters – On the Trail of an Underground America, by Langdon Cook, explores a foraging culture the extent of which I had never imagined. The massive extraction on tasty edibles from the woods of the mountain west is driven by popularity of local… Read More
I’m off work for a couple days so this morning I asked the dogs if they’d like a car ride to a forest. It turns out they were quite excited by the prospect, so off we went. There was a particular forest I had in… Read More
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