Life in a Burn Area
Back in 2018, Sandy and I decided to check out one of Oregon’s burn areas to look for the infamous burn morel. We chose the 2017 Jones Fire as we...
Tagged: Ron’s Mushroom Musings
Many Mushroom Experiments
Over the last several years I may have gone a little overboard with inoculating every log Sandy and I found with some species of mushroom. The list of species included...
Look Mom, No Cavities
I’d like to count myself as one of the few Homo sapiens to fall into the “no cavities” group. However, my mom told me it wasn’t nice to lie about...
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...
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...