In the spring, the first tasty edible mushrooms to appear in Southern Ontario are morels in May. Those are followed at roughly the beginning of June with oyster mushrooms, and then we don’t see anything much happening on the edible mushroom front for some time.… Read More
This morning, I packed a bit of a lunch, loaded the dogs in the car and drove up to meet up with my brother Salvelinas in a forest an hour or so from home. Salvelinas is very knowledgeable when it come to mushrooms and when… Read More
I found this massive bolete and decided to bring it back to the cabin for identification. After carrying it around all day, when I got back to the cabin and took the mushrooms from my basket, this one not only had crushed a few others,… Read More
I started foraging for mushrooms last year, sometime after morel season, so this will be the first year I’ll be out there looking for those strange brain-like mushrooms. Yesterday after work, I took the dogs out for a little field trip to see if perhaps… 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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