Edible Mushrooms & Wild Food Forage

Answer the call of nature

Modern foragers find few things more exciting than walking into the forest and locating our own delicious source of wild edibles. Driven by the thrill of the hunt we can walk, hike, bike or drive miles upon miles to locate that special, hidden cache of edible mushrooms or wild foods. Nature’s rewards are always well worth the effort.

The Best GPS App for Mushroom Hunting: Gaia GPS

More Than Just a Fancy Gadget As Modern Foragers, we rely heavily on GPS technology. It goes way beyond getting un-lost! We want to know where we are, were we are going, and how to get back to the car at anytime. We need to navigate back to past hotspots and save newly found spots […]
Burn Morel Environmental Factors

Morel Madness The madness of the great morel hunt is just beginning to creep up on us. Facebook pages are flooding with information, forums are active, people are chatting – a fever pitch is working its way up to what will soon become a frenzy. We often get asked about elevation and other morel hunting […]
2018 Top Nine Early Season Morel Spots in Northern California

Morel Madness Morel season in California is starting! In this article we will focus on the best places in Northern California to hunt for Morels in March and April. Finding a good early season morel spot in California this year is difficult. There are SO many fires to choose from. Despite the challenge, we wanted […]
Winter Mushrooms in the Pacific Northwest

Call of Duty We love Oregon so much we can’t help but leave our dry CO winter behind to visit often. Recently we visited friends in Eugene along with a quick trip to Florence and Reedsport on the coast. With any obsession comes a personal call of duty – doesn’t matter where we go, we […]

Top 2018 Oregon Wildfire Spots to find Morels

Oregon will be a real hot spot for world-class morel harvests in 2018. With hundreds of thousands of acres burned across the state, the possibilities for hunting are huge. There are so many spots to hunt it can be overwhelming. Below is our list of the Ten Most Promising Burns to find morels, divided up […]
Salt Point State Park in February

Mid-Winter Blues What is the best way to get over the mid-winter foraging blahs when you live in Colorado? Fly to Oakland, rent a small car on Turo, and shoot up to Salt Point State Park for a few days of coastal foraging! As obsessive foragers, we get a little stir crazy in Colorado. We […]
2018 Morel Hunting Maps

Morels in the West The 2017 fire season is over: it was a huge and destructive season. Now we begin preparing for one of the fire’s benefits: morel mushrooms. 2018 promises to be an excellent year for morels in the West. Normally we spend a few winter evenings downloading and organizing the previous year’s fires. […]
Foraging the Oregon Coastal Dunes in November

The Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area is approximately a 40 mile stretch of windswept sand dunes interlaced with stands of pine trees and ribbons of standing water. Part of the Siuslaw (pronounced Sy-u-slaw) National Forest, the dunes range from Florence in the North to Coos Bay in the South. We chose Reedsport OR as a […]

Huckleberry Heaven

We had another first on our trip to the Oregon coast: huckleberries! Huckleberry bushes in and around the dunes were still laden with juicy berries at the end of November. These coastal berries are pretty tiny (smaller than a blueberry), but pack a punch of flavor. Hard work picking, and even harder to clean, but […]
Low and Slow for Black Trumpets

Oregon Thanksgiving Hunt This year we were lucky enough to visit friends in Eugene for the holidays. We spent most of the week camping in Reedsport, OR where the mushrooms and dungeness crabs were aplenty. After a heavy bout of Thanksgiving feasting (where I safely consumed my first very carefully and professionally prepped amanita!), it […]
Alaska, Seriously The Greatest Frontier

In late September I was so lucky to claim a spot as ‘cabin-mate’ on the Safari Endeavor with my good friend Amanda. We were explorers heading from Juneau to Ketchikan, in a boat carrying about 80 other passengers through the Inner Passage of Alaska. We saw superman-style blue icebergs, glaciers, technicolor rainbows, waterfalls, misty fjords, […]
Western Slope is Exploding with Porcinis

Shroomin’ Around – A Banner Year 2017 is shaping up to be a banner year for mushrooms, notably Porcinis (boletus edulis or boletus rubriceps), in parts of Western Colorado. We enjoyed lots of mushrooms in the forests near Vail and Aspen in July and early August and recently discovered that the Grand Mesa is also […]

An Aspen Cornucopia of Wild Mushrooms

Special Comes in All Shapes & Sizes Lots of different things can make a foraging trip special. Today’s Aspen trip was notable because we totaled eight different edible mushrooms in one trip: Porcini, Golden Chanterelle, Milky Cap, Hawks Wing, Puff Ball, Shaggy Mane, Shrimp Russula and a little piece of Coral to make eight. If […]
Fishing and Foraging in Minnesota’s Northwoods

Skeeters and Other Things We found a few days to explore and forage Minnesota’s backwoods near Marcell the first week of August. Northern Minnesota is just amazing if you have never been there – the loons, the lakes, the saunas, the fishing, the quiet and sense of peacefulness. It is a vast land of forests […]
Northern Michigan Foraging

We Came, We Hunted Today we spent a few hours foraging in Northern Michigan. We started at the beach looking for Petoskeys, a rare rock unique to this part of Lake Michigan. OK, so, we get it – finding rocks on the beach is not foraging. But as an activity, it is darn close! We […]
Roaring Fork Valley Skunk

Zip, Nada, Nothing… Skunked After finding a bunch porcinis a few days ago over near Vail, we decided to hit our favorite spots in the Roaring Fork Valley again today and harvest fresh boletes by the basket full. But, it wasn’t meant to be. Despite a full 10 days of rain and some hot weather, […]

April 3, 2018The Best GPS App for Mushroom Hunting: Gaia GPS
More Than Just a Fancy Gadget As Modern Foragers, we rely heavily on GPS technology. It goes way beyond getting un-lost! We want to know where we are, were we are going, and how to get back to [...]
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March 20, 2018Burn Morel Environmental Factors
Morel Madness The madness of the great morel hunt is just beginning to creep up on us. Facebook pages are flooding with information, forums are active, people are chatting – a fever pitch [...]
Read more
March 17, 20182018 Top Nine Early Season Morel Spots in Northern California
Morel Madness Morel season in California is starting! In this article we will focus on the best places in Northern California to hunt for Morels in March and April. Finding a good early [...]
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is curious, adventurous and resourceful
is patient, careful and well-educated
is thrilled by the hunt

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