Mushroom aficionados are gearing up for a bonanza in the Bitterroot this spring. Last year’s 41 Complex and Saddle Complex wildfires, which burned more than 47,000 acres on the Bitterroot and ...

With nearly 700,000 acres of Forest Service Region 1 scorched in the 2017 fire season, national forest staff throughout western Montana expect lots of interest in mushroom harvesting this spring. The ...

Look for these mushrooms in fruit orchards, or along the ground at the site of recent fires. Inexpensive, fun, and yielding delicious results, foraging for local, natural plants is gaining popularity ...

Most who hunt mushrooms do so in late summer and fall when a vast array of choice edibles are abundant, or in spring when morels are in season. It’s easy to forget — or maybe never even know — that ...

The 27-year-old Rayes tends his crop carefully, watching the mushrooms spring to life and reach a harvestable size within days, and then the process starts all over again. He has had a passion for ...

Alejandro Velez (left) and Nikhil Arora, founders of Back to the Roots, with the company's Mushroom Kit and AquaFarm. (BACK TO THE ROOTS) College students Alejandro Velez and Nikhil Arora were just a ...

The fruit of a spring mushroom outing on Sauvie Island. Fungi are beginning to pushing their way up through the soil, which means mushroom hunters won't be far behind. Remembering when, where, how and ...

April showers may bring May flowers, but this year’s excessively damp weather also brought a bumper crop of morel mushrooms to the wooded floodplains of the Fox River Valley. “I’ve never seen so many ...

For chefs, spring is an exhilarating time. Vegetables such as asparagus, nettles, ramps, green garlic, English peas, and fava beans signal that, after months of potatoes and parsnips, we are moving ...

Gallatin National Forest commercial and personal-use mushroom harvest permits are available. Personal mushroom harvest permits are available at all Gallatin National Forest ranger district offices, ...

The annual fall mushroom picking season has begun and the Washington Poison Center is warning people to carefully check wild fungi before eating them. So far this year, the state’s poison center in ...