Mushrooms

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]