Few things get foragers excited like morel mushroom season. Few mushrooms get culinary mycophiles more giddy, and for good reason. Morels are delicious. Because this nearly-impossible-to-grow mushroom ...

It’s early on a Saturday morning, and chef Chris D’Ambro, his wife Marina de Oliveira, their friends Amelia Runyan and Karl Recktenwald, and I are in Ridley Creek Park hunting for one of spring’s most ...

Morel mushrooms can be found across Illinois and are often fried as a side dish. Photo from Alla Kemelmakher via Unsplash Morel season is peaking in the metro-east, and you’ll want to get out and ...

There are many things I love about the outdoors this time of year — not the least of which is the annual Minnesota Fishing Opener — but foraging for morels and wild asparagus ranks right up there, too ...

Morels aren’t the easiest mushrooms to find. Unlike the distinct blaze orange of chanterelles, the big-bodied clouds of chicken of the woods, or the white, shaggy plumes of Lion’s mane, morel ...

Morels are funny-looking, elusive and back in season in Missouri. The wild, edible mushrooms only grow from about late March to early May under specific temperatures and soil moisture, and their ...

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Humans from the beginning of time have been foragers seeking edible plants in order to survive, and foraging in the wild remains a highly popular outdoor pastime today. When spring finally makes its ...

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It's morel foraging season in Michigan. The honeycomb-like wild mushrooms grow best in warm, wet conditions in forested areas with large burn sites, according to the Michigan Department of Natural ...

Dried leaves, bark scraps, fallen walnuts — just about everything on the forest floor looked like a morel. I was roughly 40 minutes into a forest trek to find morel mushrooms. The prized culinary ...