I don't think I have said it enough here so I'll do so now Mushrooms are expert level foraging. The stakes range from shitting your guts out to an extremely painful death. You need to commit to a lot of learning, and patience. Cultivating mushrooms, however, is safe/easy/bug-free
I've decided to just step back, not try to forage for mushrooms, and be content with looking at how cool they are on the Internet Could they be tasty? Sure, but they could also make me shit blood. Not taking that risk.
A friend is trying to learn foraging through phone apps and the number of times I've had to tell them, "look at the gills" when an app tells them something is a chanterelle is...disturbing.
I won't fuck with mushrooms at all. I know enough to know I don't know shit and what works for me to keep me (and friends) safe with plants is not granular or fussy enough to protect me from murdering myself with mushroom
Mushrooms are a superior life form that may randomly decide they’ve had enough of us bothering them and will wake up some chemicals that will kill us.
Lots of people in Ontario quietly die of mushroom poisoning, even folks with a lot of experience (who never regained consciousness to help elucidate the cause). It doesn't make the news, but I hear about it from my mushroom club nurse friends.
So much this. I would never ever ever forage mushrooms. I'm barely brave enough to buy a pre-inoculated mushroom log to grow in my kitchen.
I enjoy the concept of mushrooms, in a "science is cool, wow life finds all sorts of ways to be" kinda way. But I don't think I'll ever forage mushrooms, and now seems a *particularly* bad time to start I'm betting you saw this? www.reddit.com/r/LegalAdvic...
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theres a pretty small handful of mushrooms i feel confident finding and eating. ive foraged for over a decade and worked vocationally in mushrooms for a few years. but when i do find someone out in nature and im 100% sure i wont die, it feels pretty lovely
I remember a case maybe 15 years ago where a hiker in Nova Scotia decided to pick and eat a random purple flower. Happened to be deadly. Don't eat what you do not know.
This is really good information. This is also a time to share one of my favorite things ever (which is also a good reminder):
