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50 comments on TOD:Campfire Overview and Guidelines
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I am very familiar with KING boletus (porcini). I have harvested them in WI, VT and found hundreds of pounds in British Columbia 3 years ago (even sold them to mushroom market), but that is one of about 5 'edible' species I am comfortable with. I don't think I know what a 'queen' looks like.
Mushroom foraging is the healthier neural equivalent to trading stocks or playing poker. Walking in the forest and not knowing what you will find (and occasionally getting lost), have been some of the best times of my life. In the end though, mushrooms are on the novelty/flavor side. Outside of some micronutrients, I don't think they have a huge amt. of nutrition... But I LOVE to find them...(and eat them)
Nate-
Great find!
Queen's look and taste just like King's, but tend to favor oak madrone environments here in Marin.
I hunted today, and collected oysters.
With the recent rains it will be chantrells, as soon as I can get to my secret spot in Sonoma.
Actually, some mushrooms are high in protein. I have joined the SF mycological society to increase my knowledge and find like minded friends (a very eclectic group, including some very experienced psychonauts )
Mushrooms are pretty strong in the B-group vitamins, though not B-12 (the one present in animal products). They are a good source of potassium and sodium, so if you don't have salts available or don't like them, are good for that. They're also fairly good concentrators of phosphorous, which is why they grow so well on animal manure (animals concentrate phosphorous in their bodies). This has obvious implications for the peak phosphorous issue.
I hear that they're not too difficult to grow, but I've never tried it.
Nice idea this discussion Nate, but about the selling commons bounty to the mushroom market, we used to have Chanterelles in abundance. No more! Some realized there was a lucrative market for them in Japan and now a mushroom that was once abundant is a rarity here.
This is a good point. And I actually thought about it while I was in line at the mushroom depot (this was 3-4 years ago when I had JUST read Tragedy of the Commons for the first time. I researched it and as I understood, the actual mushroom is just the 'fruiting body' of the entire organism and as long as you are careful in cutting it and leaving the mycelium 'roots', then the mushroom would come again next year (or next time conditions were appropriate).
I suspect the jury is still out on all this, but I like picking mushrooms just the same...