first time mushroom picking

[rhyla]

So the hubby and I decided to give mushroom picking a go. We talked about it last year but never did get out and try it. Neither of us are fond of store bought mushrooms (you know, the little white, standard mushrooms - I don't even know what they are - that they sell) but figured we might like some wild ones. So we had two reasons to go out:

1. We might actually like some and it'd give us something to forage in the fall
2. We could try selling pines to cover gas money for going out hunting as that's our biggest expense

I was a little under the weather but figured getting out in the bush would if not help at least not hurt. We'd never been before. Managed to find all of 3 pines. One we kept to try ourselves, 2 we took and sold made $5. Not quite covering the $80 / tank we go through two days hunting, but we'll get there! We were just happy we'd successfully managed to identify something. Also picked a couple apricot jelly, ink caps, and coral mushrooms for ourselves to try.

[trapperbud]

Congrats . I to want to they hunting them but I got to do a little more resurch before I give it a try . ;D

[woodsman416]

I'd heard of the Matsutake Pine Mushrooms before but I think they only grow on the west coast. I've never seen one out here that I know of. Good job on finding some.Congrats! ;D

[Admin]

Good job on the shroom scavenging. ;D I've never heard of pine mushrooms.

[patricimo54]

Someday I have hopes of living in a wetter climate where I can enjoy some mushroom gather. Thanks for sharing your success.

[rhyla]

Mushroom picking can definitely be a bit daunting with all the poisonous ones out there. That's probably why it took us so long to give it a try.

A site I really like is Northern Bushcraft (http://northernbushcraft.com) Except they don't list pines (I guess because of poisonous look alikes, they stay away from anything you might confuse with something that could kill you.) But it's good for mushrooms, berries & other plants and has lots of pictures and other information.

The buyers around here will take pines, chantrelles, cauliflower and I beleive lobster mushrooms. So that's a nice handful to start with learning among the few others we've managed to identify so far for ourselves.