Wild About Wild Edible Mushrooms

Wild Edible Mushrooms – chanterelle mushroom, a choice edible!

Wild edible mushrooms are without a doubt gaining in popularity these days. Just the other day I caught a rerun of The Iron Chef that featured wild edible mushrooms as the secret ingredient. I’ve also seen Rachel Ray do an episode of her cooking show featuring wild edible mushrooms. Some of the more hip supermarkets and grocery stores are even starting to carry wild edible mushrooms during mushroom season.  If you’ve got an interest in wild edible mushrooms, then don’t be afraid of being called out for being a geek or a nerd…you’re not alone! Millions of people worldwide enjoy collecting wild edible mushrooms, and you can too! You just need to spend some time learning to identify wild mushrooms to make sure that what’s on your plate is indeed a wild edible mushroom and not a poisonous mushroom!

Hunting for Wild Edible Mushrooms is a Health Hobby!

Learning to find and identify, and eventually eat wild edible mushrooms is a hobby that offers a multitude of benefits, everything from increased physical activity to something new and delicious to put on the supper table. The fact that wild edible mushrooms are becoming more and more accepted in by modern day society has led to a whole new subculture of wild edible mushroom hunters who eagerly hit the muddy trails soon after it rains in pursuit of the veritable cornucopia of wild edible mushrooms

This wild edible mushroom, a black morel, was growing in my own backyard!

common to most places such as morel mushrooms, chicken of the woods mushroom, oyster mushrooms, hedgehog mushrooms, king bolete mushrooms (aka the world famous gourmet Porcini mushrooms), not to mention one of my favorites to find while mushroom hunting, chanterelles!

Recently, I’ve even begun to notice that several of my usual wild edible mushroom hunting haunts are showing signs of other wild edible mushroom hunters here and there. In an time when many cultures are trying to “go green,” becoming more aware of our impact on our environments, and starting to rebuild a connection to the Earth, it’s not surprising that people are growing more and more curious about wild edible plants and wild edible mushrooms as part of their reconnecting with Mother Earth. Wild Edible Mushrooms provide a great opportunity to fine tune your senses as you search for hidden wild edible mushrooms, many of which evolved to blend into the forest floor like morel mushrooms and black trumpet chanterelle mushrooms. By becoming more highly attuned to the details of what you are seeing and smelling, waking your senses up to countless Miracles of Nature that previously fell below the radar so to speak, is just one of the secret benefits of wild edible mushroom hunting has to offer you. Hunting for wild edible mushrooms helps free your mind from habitual thinking, those racing loops and jumbles of worry and emotion that usually preoccupies  our minds.

Wild Edible Mushrooms Changed My Life

Wild Edible Mushrooms – wild Eastern Cauliflower mushroom. Looks like brains, tastes even better!

My passion for wild edible mushrooms continues to grow year after year. You’d think that if you hike nearly every single day of the past 7 mushroom seasons that you’d have found all the wild edible mushrooms there are to find. Not true! Even I have yet to find every wild edible mushroom there is to find! With every rain, new wild edible mushrooms magically rise from the forest floor just waiting for the would be wild edible mushroom hunter to stumble on by, pick it up, and as a result aid it in the process of disseminating its spores, which is how a mushroom reproduces…but that’s a story for another time…

For now, I would like to merely welcome you to my blog, Shrooms Gone Wild, and look forward to sharing mushroom pictures, tips on finding wild edible mushrooms, how to identify wild edible mushrooms, and so much mush-more!

Welcome to Shrooms Gone Wild: Wild Edible Mushrooms, Mushroom Hunting, Wild Mushroom Identification, and MUSH more!

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