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.

Yachats Village Mushroom Fest

The first thing you have to know about this festival is how to say it: Yah-Hots with an emphasis on the first syllable. The second thing you have to know is that Cape Perpetua and the Yachats area is a little slice of heaven. We spent several days exploring the coastal areas north and South of Yachats Village and then attending their mushroom festival and we can't wait to go back! It is hard to know where to even start talking about it.
North American Mycological Association Annual Foray

Mycophiles Converge We attended the 2018 NAMA Annual Foray in Salem, Oregon this year and are compelled to offer rave reviews. This was our first time attending the event and we give it high marks for being well organized, educational, fun and affordable. The three day event was October 11-14th at the Macleay Conference Center […]
Experimenting With Mushroom Cultivation

If You Can’t Find Them – Grow Them! The modern forager has to adapt when conditions aren’t conducive. This year was epically hot and dry in Colorado. There were no mushrooms. By August, other foraging opportunities had passed: ditch asparagus was pickled, feral apricots were jammed and leaves were peeped. What to do? Lets grow […]
Wild Mushroom Food Safety Certification

Recently Trent and I ventured to Asheville, NC to complete a wild mushroom food safety certification course taught by Mushroom Mountain’s Tradd Cotter. While we are not planning to step up and start selling foraged mushrooms (it’s a lot of work people!), we wanted to dig in and learn more about our favorite Kingdom: Fungi.

Online Rain Research Resources

Water is on our minds right now as Colorado suffers through a drought. It seems like a good time to share some of our favorite precipitation research tools. We typically use these tools to follow weather patterns and plan mushroom forays. A lack of rain has been a pretty common problem, since, like forever. Advanced […]
Colorado Wild Edible Mushrooms

Rain, Rain, Please Rain While I’m sitting here longing for rain and day dreaming about mushroom season, I thought what better way to stave off the ho-hums than share some information about my favorite Colorado fungi. Normally our season is just beginning right about now, mid-July. It’s perhaps a bit early, but you can usually […]
Summer Morels and High Altitudes in Colorado

Shoulder Season, Wha Wha June can be a tough month in Colorado for mushroom hunters. It’s the shoulder season: spring morels have run their course and the summer heavyweights, porcinis and chanterelles, won’t show up until late July if we’re lucky. This year has been especially tough – low snowpack and not much rain over the […]
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. Trent and I visited a few weeks ago to hunt the Broken Lookout fire just North of town.

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 […]

October 28, 2018Yachats Village Mushroom Fest
The first thing you have to know about this festival is how to say it: Yah-Hots with an emphasis on the first syllable. The second thing you have to know is that Cape Perpetua and the Yachats [...]
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October 24, 2018North American Mycological Association Annual Foray
Mycophiles Converge We attended the 2018 NAMA Annual Foray in Salem, Oregon this year and are compelled to offer rave reviews. This was our first time attending the event and we give it high [...]
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September 1, 2018Experimenting With Mushroom Cultivation
If You Can’t Find Them – Grow Them! The modern forager has to adapt when conditions aren’t conducive. This year was epically hot and dry in Colorado. There were no mushrooms. By [...]
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The modern forager …

loves and respects nature
is curious, adventurous and resourceful
is patient, careful and well-educated
is thrilled by the hunt

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