It is a great pleasure for our family to go into moist, autumn smelling woods, and look for mushrooms early in the morning. In the spring we like to go to the mountains and look for morels along the fast running streams and at the edges of mountain meadows. Burnt forest, which is the morels' favorite habitat, doesn't look so bad if these mushrooms are abundant there. Finally the fire is part of a natural cycle for the forest. The gathering of mushrooms gives us an enjoyment of nature, the excitement of the hunt, and the challenge of who will find the first one, who will find the most beautiful one, and who will find more than the others.
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| King Bolete | Blond Morel | Horn of Plenty |
This hunting is bloodless. By picking a mushroom, which is a fruit of fungus living in soil, on roots of trees, or in dead wood, we do not harm the organism itself, just like picking an apple will not harm the apple tree. We collect over 40 different species of mushrooms for our table. Most favored by us you can see in these pictures. Even if a mushroom is not edible, it is still a pleasure to find it, admire it's beauty, learn about it, try to find the name for it, and photograph it.
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| Black Morels | Golden Chanterelle | Queen Bolete |
If you would like to see photos of some of the mushrooms we find, go to our Pictures of Mushrooms pages.
You can see some pictures of us and our friends enjoying mushrooms in our Mushrooms and People pages.
To see pictures recently added go to New Stuff.
Photos © by B. Kuznik.