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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
