It seems that every year about this time, knowing full well we have plenty of winter left, I start thinking about spring activities. Recently, I’ve started to consider possible places to look for morels. I’ve been thinking further ahead too, about other mushrooms I might… Read More
It is very cold this morning. We fired up the woodstove up in the family room to toast up. I see smoke coming out the chimney of the house across the way. They had the same idea. On the good news front, the days are… Read More
There are two trails which run parallel. We took the other one for a change, the one by the rough grass. I was watching Memphis, but Tuffy P. spotted something in the grass. “Mushrooms”. And so I was incorrect a while back when I published… Read More
I’ve learned such a tremendous amount this year about mushrooms. It seems hard to believe that I waited until this year without really looking at a mushroom in the forest. I’ve pretty much hung up my baskets for the season. The leaves are falling and… Read More
There are two basic types of mushrooms hunters – those who collect mushrooms for dinner and those who collect for pure study. It kind of reminds me of fly fishing, where there are catch and release fly fishermen and there are bank-napping bait plonkers. As… Read More
As many of you know, yesterday I was on a field trip for the class I’m taking in mushroom identification, Lords of the Dark Earth. It was quite a day. One of the things I’ve been learning is that mushrooms exist in really interesting relationships… Read More
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