The Dark Fungi and the Light Fungi
If the title of this article seems confusing to you, well you’re probably in very good company. On a recent PBS broadcast of Science Friday, one of the topics of...
Category: Ron’s Mushroom Musings
Ramaria Mushrooms
When hiking in the woods, it’s not unusual for Sandy and I to come across different species in the genus Ramaria. These stately looking mushrooms are more commonly referred to...
Take a Taste on the Wild Side
Sandy and I have been out mushrooming several times this fall and each time we’ve only found a few chanterelles. Even though we had good rain in September and October,...
Weather, Mushrooming, and Vegan Meat
I thought I would start with a follow-up on last month’s article regarding Oregon’s weather Prognosticators. Some were predicting the Northwest to have a very strong El Niño event, which...
Will this mushroom season be better than 2022?
April showers bring May flowers but having plentiful late summer and fall showers brings out the mushrooms in great abundance. Last year’s September/October rainfall was nothing short of terrible and...
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...
