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The Frequency of the Little People.

14 Jan 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Herschel

Children, and also faeries, have a different type of memory and a different type of visual spectrum. Pretty neat.  Some more fun talk about frequencies. Mostly, it’s about memory. What’s the deal with our tenuous memories? Remember how you remembered...

Mushroom Monday - Edible Mushroom Extravaganza

10 Oct 2022 1 minute read 4 comments tych0_21

Early fall may be my favorite time to hunt for mushrooms. The crisp Autumn air wisps through my chilled fingers as I careful pick through the sodden leaf litter on the forest floor in search of my bounty. The buzz of mosquitoes and flies has abated w...

Fungi Friday - A Bright Start to the Autumn Foraging Season

16 Sep 2022 2 minute read 0 comments tych0_21

Happy Fungi Friday! It's already been an eventful fall foraging season here in the woods of western Michigan, USA. Despite not being able to get out into the woods nearly as much as I would have hoped to be able to over the last week, I have already...

Fungi Friday - More Summer Fungi From Michigan, USA

2 Sep 2022 3 minute read 2 comments tych0_21

Happy Fungi Friday everyone! I'm back again with more fascinating fungi from western Michigan, USA. Today, I have a diverse collection of mushrooms, some edible, some poisonous, and plenty of others vibrant and ephemeral, posing on the forest floor w...

Mushroom Monday - An Abundance of Summer Fungi

15 Aug 2022 1 minute read 1 comment tych0_21

Happy Mushroom Monday! Over the last week, I have been lucky enough to come across a wide variety of native fungi in the woods of western Michigan, USA. I have come across delicious edible mushrooms ranging from chanterelles (Genus cantharellus), to...

Mushroom Monday - My Most Successful Chanterelle Haul Yet

9 Aug 2022 5 minute read 2 comments tych0_21

Happy Mushroom Monday! This last weekend was a particularly exciting weekend for me since I was blessed enough to stumble upon the largest fruitings of chanterelles I have yet witnessed. With a heavy rain in the middle of last week, and warm, humid w...

A New Path Leads to Both New and Familiar Fungi

20 Jul 2022 2 minute read 1 comment tych0_21

Happy Wednesday to everyone! Today, I'm happy to share a few photos documenting a walk through one of my favorite woods in western Michigan, USA. This is a spot that I frequent whenever I am foraging for edible mushroom species as well as find a plac...

Coprinellus micaceus 🍄 Mushroom

10 Jul 2022 1 minute read 4 comments valerianis

When I was a child, I was told that mushrooms are the little elves that live in our gardens. I had no idea what they were and found it difficult to believe that they existed at all. I only believed in them because my parents told me so, and I had nev...

Mushroom Monday - Rare Edible Fungi and More From the Woods of Western Michigan, USA

14 Jun 2022 2 minute read 0 comments tych0_21

Happy Mushroom Monday! Today I am happy to share my most recent fungal finds from the woods of Western Michigan, USA, including a relatively rare edible fungi: the Umbrella Polypore (Polyporus umbellatus). Despite a rather lackluster spring mushroom...

Late Spring Mushrooms of Michigan, USA

6 Jun 2022 2 minute read 1 comment tych0_21

This year has been a bit of a bust when it comes to edible spring mushrooms like morels. The prolonged cold followed by a seemingly overnight shift to summer-like heat has prevented many of the species that should be fruiting abundantly by now from s...