Mushrooming
Untrained S.C. mushroom foragers risk poisoning themselves
As some South Carolinians comply with health officials’ advice to spend more time outdoors during the pandemic, they are now flirting with a different lethal threat: Toxic mushrooms.
Outdoor News video: Grow your own shiitake mushrooms
In this Outdoor News video, Kathy Yerich, author of “Mushrooms of the Upper Midwest,” demonstrates – with help from Mike Hehner – the do-it-yourself process to creating shiitake mushroom logs.
Wild Mushroom Hunting Tips
The Taste of the Wild features recipes and tips for preparing wild game and foraging wild edibles. In this piece, we share tips from Walter Sturgeon, a nationally recognized author on woodland fungi and the author of Appalachian Mushrooms: A Field Guide for mushroom hunters.
Erie’s mushroom kingdom: exotic mushrooms abound
ERIE, Pa. — Pennsylvania is far and away the largest producer of mushrooms in the U.S., mostly the white “button” variety, grown on 68 farms mostly in the Philadelphia region. That’s been true for generations. Now, for many reasons – Americans’ widening interest for food grown and produced locally, a focus on low-carb diets, and
In Wisconsin this time of year, it’s all about the morel mushrooms
The morel will be celebrated for three days beginning May 19 when the 35th annual Muscoda Morel Mushroom Festival is held.
Gathering morels can test one’s outdoor skills — and fate
Wisconsin morel hunters find the pursuit as satisfying as deer hunting.
