Wild Mushrooms in Late Winter
By the time March rolls around, visions of wild mushroom hunting starts turning more toward the arrival of spring mushrooms. While most of our warmer weather mushroom activity happens east...
Category: Ron’s Mushroom Musings
Let’s go on a Mushroom __?
I will confess that I am not the most active user of the Cascade Mycological Society’s fantastic website. However, being married to its webmaster Sandy, I typically get in person...
Going on a Winter Mushroom Foray
A question someone might ask during this time of year is, “Can I still find mushrooms in January?” Well, I could just say no and make this article an extremely...
2025 Wild Rivers Mushroom Festival Review
On November 7th, Sandy and I began our 4+ hour drive from Eugene to Brookings to attend their Wild Rivers Mushroom Festival. Of course, with all our stops, the 4+ hour...
Sutton Campground and Suillus Mushrooms
It’s fairly common for those of us who have foraged for mushrooms for any length of time to create a list of favorite spots to hunt. Some of these spots...
To eat or not to eat, that is the question
On the 6th of October, Sandy and I decided to try our luck finding some Amanita muscaria mushrooms around the Florence area. The highly recognizable Amanita muscaria is a mycorrhizal fungus that partners with a...
