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Black Trumpet Mushroom

Duck and Wild Mushroom Soup

June 14, 2009

The one good thing about all this rain we have been having is that there are mushrooms everywhere. Frank was headed up the road to see if he can figure out how the sheep are breaking out, and came back really quickly for a mushroom basket because he spotted these Oyster Mushrooms not far from [...]

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Yay! 'Shrooms

August 3, 2008

Last year we skimmed along the edge of drought for most of the summer, and as a result the mushrooming stank. Despite many trips into the woods, we got a single not very full gallon freezer bag of black trumpets. The good news is that it was just enough on top of 2005′s spectacular stash [...]

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One Local Summer Week 9

August 2, 2008

I made a zero-mile meal for dinner tonight, after we went mushroom hunting in our woods and scored loads and loads of oyster mushrooms. We found a dead cherry tree just covered in them, and they were right at prime in both size and age. Sweet! Actually, oyster mushrooms are slightly sweet. We’ve found them [...]

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Weekend Update

September 23, 2007

It’s ten days since the last entry. There’ve been no big developments, but much that might be worth remembering in next year, or in 2010. We’ve continued to check for mushrooms every two or three days. We caught one more small flush of trumpets (and three chanterelles) in good time, and found the remains of [...]

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‘Shrooms at Last

September 13, 2007

After three days of rain, we went out into the woods with high hopes, and we got some results. First we found the remnants of a small flush of black trumpets, on one side of the black trumpet mother lode. They were almost gone by, but we can’t be choosy this year, and we got [...]

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Mushroom Musings

October 14, 2003

I think we can call the mushroom season over, so I want to sum things up for future years. On the wild mushroom front we’ve done well: we’ve learned to recognize several very good species. Puffballs, chanterelles and sweet teeth in all show promise. Unfortunately I don’t like the texture of the little puffballs as [...]

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Mushroom Hunting

September 30, 2003

Our friend Paul came over today, and the three of us took a walk out in our woods. We had high hopes that all of the rain we’ve had this year would make for many good edible mushroom, and indeed, that was the case. Our big finds: Black Trumpet Mushrooms: We found tons of these. [...]

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