A heavy rain falls. I worry about the roof leaking. I worry about the weight of the water in the trees near our home and limbs falling. I worry about the mud in our pastures and the moisture in our basement. It is fall in the Pacific Northwest. It is a time of the beginning of a long saturation.
But tonight I am happy. Our bellies are full of shaggy parasols that we harvested from the woods behind our house, and we are making plans for a long walk tomorrow in search of more fungus. The soil is wet again, and it is time for the fruits of the decaying ground to emerge.
So far we’ve had the good fortune of finding chanterelles, oysters, porcinis and shaggy parasols in the nearby woods, along with a multitude of other fascinating, though inedible, fungus.
Mushrooms are one of the reasons we made the move to Bellingham. Katie says it was for the ocean and the boats. I let her think that.
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Love this post. We missed out on chanterelles this year, but found a bunch of lobster mushrooms in NW Montana. Look forward to cooking you guys up some when you visit next!
Mmmmmm…..lobster mushrooms! We’ll take you guys up on that FOR SURE Bri Bri!
Do drinking beer and searching for fungi go hand in hand?
Looks yummy….
dale
Ha! Caught red-handed! Umm….around these parts those activities are often correlated. 🙂
– Katie and Mark
How do you know which mushrooms are safe to eat? Besides the most common ones obviously.
Hi Troy,
We have an impressive library of mushroom books, always take spore prints and key the fungi out. At the end of the day though, we always err on the side of caution and don’t eat anything that we’re not 110% positive that we know what it is. If folks are interested we could do a post on “how to ID a mushroom”….
– Katie and Mark
I’d be interested on how to id mushrooms. I live in Tacoma not far from you. As a youngin I used to indulge in the other kind of mushrooms lol but as an adult I think I’d rather stick with the kind I can put in my stir fry! Thanks. Reason I ask is I happen to have 3 different kinds of mushrooms growing in my yard right now. Not going to eat them but I always like to learn.
Troy – we’ll definitely put a mushroom ID post in the queue. As you’ll see, the process of identification is fascinating….at least we think so!
– Katie and Mark
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