Hunting: Mushroom Hunters Look for Certification to Sell Morels Posted by Psynaut on Tuesday, May 04 @ 06:34:40 EDT (78 reads)
CEDAR RAPIDS - A federal food safety rule last year made it nearly impossible to buy wild morel mushrooms. Nothing prevented anyone from going into the woods finding their own and cooking them. But selling morels to someone else legally almost required a degree as a plant pathologist.
But wild mushroom fanciers can soon buy and sell at all sorts of outlets. That’s because Iowa lawmakers have created a morel inspector certification program to allow the sale safely.
Winifred’s chef David Meyer knows his wild mushroom from years of experience—both cooking and searching in the woods. But the change in federal food safety rules took morels off his menu last year. He couldn’t legally buy from someone who didn’t have an expert certification.
Hunting: Island's a dream for mushroom hunters Posted by psynaut on Thursday, November 17 @ 11:45:56 EST (3816 reads)
Erin Fletcher
The Star
The next time you got out for a walk in the woods, look down. You may be stepping on a great meal.
Vancouver Island is home to more than 2,000 mushroom species and many of the more common ones are delicious sauteed in butter and garlic.
But when it comes to mushroom hunting, the challenge is not in the hunt but in knowing which ones are edible and which ones will give your intestines a terrible turn.
Last week a group of eager mushroom hunters gathered at Wildwood, a Land Conservancy forest in Yellowpoint, to learn how to identify and cook the delicate fungus we are all so fond of. Rob Countess, owner of Vancouver Island Nature Exploration, an eco-tourism company based out of Port Hardy, hosted the one-day workshop.
Hunting: Mushroom harvesters strike Posted by Psynaut on Friday, October 08 @ 02:16:33 EDT (1734 reads)
CRESCENT JUNCTION, Ore. -- Matsutake mushrooms were a fast fortune once for the many Southeast Asian immigrants who prowled the pine forests of the Oregon Cascades for the beige-white fungi.
In the early 1990s the price went crazy, at times topping $500 a pound for sale fresh to a voracious market in Japan.
That didn't last, but in early September, when the pickers moved into the camps for the two-month season, the price was still $28 a pound for top grade matsutakes.
Then the bottom dropped out -- to $18 a pound, to $8, to $4, then to $3.
Hunting: Certainly a weird season Posted by Psynaut on Tuesday, May 04 @ 19:33:27 EDT (1265 reads)
mark_h writes "When I've been out foraying so far this spring, I've seen some of the expected spring fungi. I've also seen autumn fungi as well!! Examples from Saturday just gone include Paxillus Involutus(Brown Roll Rim), Leccinum Versipelle(Orange Birch Bolete). When you are out and about, have a look and see if you have any surprises! "
Hunting: The spring season in full swing Posted by Psynaut on Thursday, April 22 @ 20:50:35 EDT (1301 reads)
mark_h writes "It seems that the spring fungi season is well and truely underway. Plenty of reports of healthy sized crops of morels have been received... lets see what the Autumn is like."
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