Mushrooms can do strange things
This is an interesting time within our mushroom hunting season. Mushrooms like winter chanterelles, bellybutton hedgehogs, and verpas are pretty much finished while morels, spring boletes and coral mushrooms are...
Category: Mushroom Cultivation
Rub-A-Dub-Dub, Mushrooms all in a Tub
The title of this article is a slight variation on a well known nursery rhyme about a butcher, baker, and a candlestick maker. While they all ended up at sea...
Mushroom season wrap-up
This being my last article for this mushroom season (please, don’t all clap at once) I thought I would use this space to do a kind of seasonal wrap-up. I’m...
Gardening and fungi
Before Bitty Roy spoke to CMS at our January 15th meeting, a small group of us met for dinner at Laughing Planet. I sat across from Molly Widmer who, when the...
Another type of Chestnut
Last spring I wrote an article about how outdoor mushroom cultivation in your own backyard can help bridge the gap when there is low availability of wild mushrooms. I have experimented...
Growing mushrooms at home
With summer quickly approaching and our rainy season ending, edible wild mushrooms become more difficult to find. So instead of hunting all over Oregon, look no further than your own...
