Lots of mushrooms. Am I the only guy picking them?

[freewheat]

Good thing about all the late summer rain, ( and about the only good thing), is that it triggers a big flush of some fine eating mushrooms.

I have been plucking quite a few while haying as I haul hay down an old dirt road in the woods.

The main one is called a king bolete. The italians call it porcino. Yummy, fat things they are. $40 bucks a lb. to buy. Sought after by chefs the world over.

Fresh boletes. Free range chicken. Potatoes from the garden. Kohlrabi, beans, chokecherry jam.

Lots to glean out there if you know what to look for.

Enjoy! May as well, rains twice a day, lots of time to collect food from nature.

I know JD green, it is a waste of time to teach my kids which shrooms to eat! lol

[Klause]

I can't find any here.


Growing up I'd pick them (we called them redcaps) and morels by the 5 gal pail... slice them and freeze dry. Mushroom soup all winter.


Fresh fried up with onion in butter. Yum yum.

[sumdumguy]

Nothing like morels with onion and cream. Actually I have heard that around Esterhazy you can pick golden morels by the milk crate right in the pastures. I dream about wild mushrooms and fishing, memories of my youth but the reality is that there are no mushrooms around Regina. That meal sounds simply scrumptious. Gonna google the mushrooms you speak of.

[blackpowder]

Chokecherries?? My absolute favourite pancake syrup!! I would absolutely buy a case if you had some.

[cottonpicken]

How do you tell what is poisonous and what isn't.

[AllisWD45]

Lucky Guy. Lots of mushrooms here too but the mosquitoes take the fun right out of it

[JDGreen]

Oh Freewheat you just don't know me at all I guess.. You think your the only one that eats fresh farm food??? This morning fresh eggs (omelettes) with fresh banana/orange peppers, fresh tomatoes, homemade breakfast sausage. as you sit and brag about teaching your kids the basics mine already knows it, and is too busy teaching CPR/First aid/Swimming lessons to other children like yours to worry about picking a few mushroom which don't even exist around here. While your walking around picking a few mushrooms I've already put the first 1/3 of my crop in the bin LOL... I do envy the mushrooms tho..'would have been pretty good in my omelette

[newguy]

Love picking them but can only find them around old farms that had horses.Seems horse manure is what they grow in.And the weather must be very et and hot to get them growing.So it seems not as many of the pink underneath mushrooms around here anymore.But enjoying lots of garden produce and wife is canning daily so we can enjoy year round.

[farmaholic]

If I knew which ones wouldn't make me sick or kill me I'd consider it. Is it just bullshit that some of the local mushrooms are poisonous? Was too dry here this year for the local fungi to grow.

[freewheat]

These ones are orange/tan topped, with no gills on the underside. They have tube type gills. While delicious, I agree that nothing beats a morel.

You figure it out by trial and error. Just kidding!

These ones are a product of the open woods. And yes, the mosquitoes are a big deterrent.