What do you forage?

[Cecilia's-life]

chicken of the woods

Is that also called a puffball? Or are they different mushrooms?

 

[NH Homesteader]

Nope it looks like this

 

[Perris]

and does it taste like chicken?

 

[NH Homesteader]

I have no idea. I don’t like mushrooms or chicken, actually. I just know what they look like, my husband likes them though so I’ll ask him.

 

[flowerbug]

if you ever pick morels when you rinse them off save the water and scatter it around your property. we did that and have sometimes morels show up now including in places you'd never expect them.

Fungi | Anthive

A mushroom I'd never seen before...

www.anthive.com

 

[flowerbug]

Nope it looks like this View attachment 16798

pretty!

i wonder if that was the same as in this picture as they look similar:

 

[Trying2keepitReal]

The one I linked to?

That is just Alaskan berries.... not sure how helpful it will be for you.

no, sorry not "the" berry book but a berry book--but thanks for the suggestion/information

 

[Alaskan]

no, sorry not "the" berry book but a berry book--but thanks for the suggestion/information

Oh good!

 

[Hinotori]

Regional specific books rock. Like with birding books, most are too general and people get those and think they have a bird who doesn't live within a 1000 miles of them. I use a mountains to coast Puget Sound birds for my identifying. It gives habitat and counties they are more likely to be.

Might check out local extention office and university web sites. They are quite helpful here.

I have a foraging on the Pacific coast book somewhere. It doesn't have mushrooms. Those need their own books.

Blackberries and raspberries are good foraging plants because there are no toxic look-alikes. Actually, the fruit from most plants in the rose family are edible. Now the seeds might contain harmful substances. Which is why you don't eat cups of apple seeds.

Some wild brambles taste better than others. Some are also more worth it to gather. I've spent many hours picking the thin little caps of thimbleberry to get the 4 cups I needed for jelly.

 

[Perris]

the best mushrooms I've found locally are called Parasol mushrooms. They taste absolutely fantastic, and are impossible to confuse with anything else that grows round here because they are enormous!