My fourth year searching for them and i finally found a place! Few hundred feet off the trail and there it was among the mayapple and waterleaf, i could hardly believe it. Tree ID is HARD and i don't have any tips on that front but i don't think there were any elms around because the (lack of) canopy in the area didn't show any sign of flowers/buds. Ended up with 9 ounces and i left some tiny ones behind that still seemed healthy enough to keep growing.
Shout out to the curious deer that patiently led me right to the spot.
Saw these at $70 a pound in a local store recently.
Haven’t found them in the wild yet - I know they’re up in the sierras right now, just can’t get up there to go looking!Awesome job comrade, they look delicious
Thanks! And I knooow it's the same here, they're ungodly expensive! Making money foraging would be satisfying but it's hard to imagine ever finding enough to be interested in selling em to some place versus just eating them and giving em to people.
Apparently morel season in the sierras can go all the way into july (damn that's crazy), maybe you'll get a chance in the next couple months 🤞
I think I'll just fry em up in some oil and add a little butter toward the end, maybe flour them first and then try an actual recipe next time. Gotta get the lay of the land, you know? Probably some sort of simple pasta dish would be the first recipe i'd try with em, incorporating them into a wine/cream sauce, something like that.
Awesome! This was also the first year I found some but only like three so not worth harvesting. At least I have my data point about where they grow.
Oh yeah that's huge! I've read they take a week or two to grow from when they first pop up and average morel season (at least in the midwest) has about a month left so your spot might even have more to offer this year
Night before last, my partner had a dream.
She dreamt that she found a patch of morels that like 2 pounds each.
Goes for a walk in the woods yesterday and finds a small handful of morels in the normal spots that had been too dry this year for them to come out sooner.
Fuckin' dreams... I tell you what...
Lmao that rocks
What if instead of the farmers almanac it was for mushroom hunters and based on dream interpretation
