Mushroom foragers

[itsasmallfarm]

Well had my best day of morel mushroom hunting!

Found 5 morels!

 

[R2elk]

Oysters

 

[ColtHandorf]

A video about de-bugging your foraged mushrooms.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTR8UAvHj/?k=1

 

[ColtHandorf]

So when it's not a good time for foraging for mushrooms, do any of you forage any other native foodstuffs?

 

[Ascholten]

I do all the time. there are plenty of woods around to rummage through. If you look carefully there always seems to be a lump of shrooms here or there one can find. Lions Mane, Oyster, Rishi, just to name a few. Havent seen any Morels but am told they do pop up on occasion. There are tons of other plants too, ginger, native plant with caffeine, black berries, some gensing if you know where to look, etc etc. Florida has tons of swamp, good growing pretty much year round. You can gather / dig up a meal pretty much every day without a heck of a lot of trouble. It may not always be the tastiest thing on earth but it will keep you alive and if you look carefully, healthy too, as there are also a lot of plants with medicinal properties too.

Aaron

 

[itsasmallfarm]

Just got back from mushroom hunting. Got about 5 lbs of chantrelles in maybe 2 hours of picking. Also got about half a pound of blue berries.

 

[itsasmallfarm]

So when it's not a good time for foraging for mushrooms, do any of you forage any other native foodstuffs?

Depends what you call foraging.

I do maple syrup and hoping to start birch syrup. Raspberries, saskatoons, blue berries, goose berries, hazelnuts. I know lots of people pick swamp tea as well here.

 

[ColtHandorf]

Depends what you call foraging.

I do maple syrup and hoping to start birch syrup. Raspberries, saskatoons, blue berries, goose berries, hazelnuts. I know lots of people pick swamp tea as well here.

I'd say that counts.

 

[Ascholten]

Birch syrup, now THAT sounds interesting. It also gives me an idea too for something to try with my beehive.

Aaron

 

[duluthralphie]

Birch syrup is much harder to make than maple. I made it last year, I won’t be making it again.