So far, this year's morel season has been disappointing to say the least. But only as far as morels are concerned. There is still plenty of wild food out there to be consumed by the Indiana forager.
With the lack of morels, I'm changing gears and focusing on the pheasant's back mushroom...
I've mentioned eating dandelions in a couple other threads, so I'll try to do a short write up here.
The average family spends $4000 per person per year on groceries. That's ridiculous when you realize that 3 generations ago, grocery stores barely existed. We've long forgotten how to live off...
If you read my guide "Morels: How to Hunt", then you learned that a mushroom called the shaggy mane is always a precursor to the morel season. Whether the mushrooms are early or late, the shaggy mane is always 4 or 5 days ahead of the first morels. You should have also read that by judging the...
If you have any desire to hunt for morels, you have probably searched for and read a guide or two on the internet. Well I have a problem with most of those guides. For the most part, they all seem like they were written by the same person, they all contain the exact same bits of information...
So you want to hunt morels in Indiana, but you don't know where to begin. Or maybe you've already been looking for morels, but you're not real sure what to look for.
The best place to start is identification.
There are nearly 200 species of morels that grow in Indiana, but don't worry, most of...
As our friends in the south are just getting into morel season, and the rest of us are drooling in anticipation, I figure this is a good time to introduce new shroomers to the false morel:
The false morel is identified by it's bright white stem and red - burgundy waxy looking head. The...