Montana Mushrooms

Dried mushrooms are a great way to store your bounty, and eat mushrooms through the off season. I have always dried morels through the years. It seams like you could never get too many, but when they are flushing, you usually can’t eat everything that is picked fresh. Even with the help of friends, there [...]

“All That the Rain Promises and More…” by David Arora, is a great book for learning the identification of mushrooms. If I could only buy one book to learn the world of  mushrooms, this would be it. This book is a companion to the  book ” Mushrooms Demystified”, which is known as the bible of [...]

Just heard from my fungal friend Larry Evans. He is in Bolivia picking mushrooms for the National Herbarium there. He said the weather is great and the mushrooms even greater.  I would like to join him one of these winters. To learn more about Larry’s world wide adventures,  go to the fungal jungal and read [...]

If April Showers bring May flowers. Then what does January snow bring? Spring Mushrooms…stupid question! Won’t be long now my fellow mycophiles! We will be picking and eating Oysters and Morels before you know it.  I can not wait!

The Conifer Coral, Hercium abeitis,  grows on pines and would be a good candidate for inoculating pine stumps. I have seen this mushroom growing from partially submerged logs. The fact that it enjoys this habitiat leads me to believe it would be happy growing from stumps. Literature from places that sell plug spawn for this [...]