I'm still pretty damn noob at IDing so many, but there is about 3-4 mushrooms, Oysters, Morels, Chanterelle (the chicken of the woods) that are VERY easy to ID that are fuckin delicious. It's fun to go hunting with someone more experienced than me. Also I've found some Psilocybe cyanescens in random places before like Golden Gate Park! They are fairly common around the SF bay area and more northern regions. Their name even is a play on san (cyan) Franciscan (escen ) which is cute

anyone else here forage or spot mushrooms? i've been thinking about growing some. they have neat little boxes you just water and they grow or i suppose you can just buy bagged spores too. I've only come across Oysters once but they are fuckin bomb.

  • happybadger [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I might look into some outdoor inoculated log growing.

    I went with this website for my shiitake logs and it couldn't be easier. Soak the logs, drill holes where you want them to fruit, put the dowels in the holes, and cover them with beeswax. Then you just have to water them with a hose every week until they fruit about a year later. I'd have a couple dozen species going if there were hardwood forests nearby. Those you just stack passively in a somewhat shady area. My maitake log is buried in my garden and grows up through the soil.