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.

Prospect, Oregon – A Mushroom Lover’s Delight

I can't remember ever having been inspired to review a town after a visit, but Prospect, Oregon should be shared.
Late Season Burn Morels

Looking to score some burn morels in June or July? Often as we get into the middle of June, the recreational morel hunter turns their attention elsewhere after two full months of good picking. Certainly the bulk of the commercial hunters have moved north or on to other prizes. Maybe it is an East/Midwest mentality […]
2018 Burn Morel Foraging, Oregon Burn Overview

Shroom Boom Our annual spring burn morel foraging trip to the Pacific Northwest has come to a close and was a smashing success. For the first time in the last few years, the weather was perfect and offered the right combination of rain, warmth, cool and dry. We also have expanded our burn morel hunts […]
How to Clean and Dry Lots of Wild Foraged Mushrooms

Shrooms, Shrooms – Too Many Shrooms? Some of us foragers get really serious about stocking up on mushrooms during the season. Often, we are out in the middle of nowhere camping and we find ourselves with a dilemma – how to quickly clean and dry a large number of foraged mushrooms. Trent and I always […]

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 […]

June 13, 2018Prospect, Oregon – A Mushroom Lover’s Delight
I can't remember ever having been inspired to review a town after a visit, but Prospect, Oregon should be shared.
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June 11, 2018Late Season Burn Morels
Looking to score some burn morels in June or July? Often as we get into the middle of June, the recreational morel hunter turns their attention elsewhere after two full months of good picking. [...]
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June 4, 20182018 Burn Morel Foraging, Oregon Burn Overview
Shroom Boom Our annual spring burn morel foraging trip to the Pacific Northwest has come to a close and was a smashing success. For the first time in the last few years, the weather was [...]
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loves and respects nature
is curious, adventurous and resourceful
is patient, careful and well-educated
is thrilled by the hunt

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