After several years of scouring the woods behind my house I am starting to find the spots for the specimens at last. The hericium keeps coming back in relatively small quantities year after year, but this is the first chanterelle haul so far, and there were many (more than pictured). Beauties.
It’s been a great year for mushrooms in the northeast which is nice since I garden too and fucking everything has blight.
Everyone says to start with a club for foraging but i don’t like strangers. I feel like i could do well enough with the audubon field guide and maybe some videos and an identification app. A lot of edibles are really distinctive.
I also have been toying with the idea of guerilla inoculation of wild species, the bucket idea posted elsewhere in here is a really good one.