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YidakiMan
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Folk mushroom foragers
#7536416 - 10/19/07 05:14 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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What fungi foraging is most common in your area? In Indiana, I think there are hordes of people that hunt morels. I may be wrong, but next I think is maitake or hens. I've never talked to any other folk mycoforagers that have even heard of a bolete or a chanterelle or oyster for that matter.
I'm really interested in Midwestern opinions but all matter to me, consider it market research.
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Re: Folk mushroom foragers [Re: YidakiMan]
#7536433 - 10/19/07 05:20 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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When I lived up in northern Alberta (Fort McMurray) and in the boreal forest it was mostly Boletes that I found folks picking. Way out of your midwestern criteria, but wth.
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YidakiMan
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Re: Folk mushroom foragers [Re: Culland]
#7536562 - 10/19/07 05:47 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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For folk traditions outside of my area, I want to trace the lineage of the tradition, so I can target that ethic group in my market. So it really does matter to me.
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Re: Folk mushroom foragers [Re: YidakiMan]
#7536705 - 10/19/07 06:33 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I haven't found anyone else doing it, but I have found wild oysters near you
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Re: Folk mushroom foragers [Re: YidakiMan]
#7537057 - 10/19/07 08:20 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Folks from eastern European for the most part were the ones after boletes. I remember one time they were walking right past hedgehogs and ignoring them. They said they boiled the crud out of them and had some pretty weird 'rules' for whats edible or not, but I guess if you boil everything to a pulp everything is non-poisonous 
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Re: Folk mushroom foragers [Re: Culland]
#7537480 - 10/19/07 10:12 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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as an eastern european 2nd generation immigrant and someone who recently spent a fair bit of time there, i can tell you boletes and chanterelles are the primary treasures..
and they're prepared in many different ways, very very rarely boiled from my perspective
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Re: Folk mushroom foragers [Re: vampirism]
#7552514 - 10/23/07 07:51 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I'm from the pacific northwest and I think the most hunted mushroom out here is Chantrels. Which are well worth the hunt. Morels are probably the second most hunted. Maybe Matsutake.
Sometimes it seems like I'm the only one who likes cauliflower mushrooms and oysters! not that I'm complaining.
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I'm Midwest All the people around here hunt just morels. When i tell them i pick and eat other mushrooms they just look at each other and shake there heads like I'm stupid.And going to die soon.I picked a few lbs of nice oysters the other day i just smile and don't tell any of them .Poboy p.s I'm cloning a few of them some where a foot wide
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LaineRB
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Re: Folk mushroom foragers [Re: poboy]
#7553262 - 10/23/07 11:14 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I am Native American and honestly most of the fungi traditions have been lost by many tribes and the diversity of mushrooms collected have seemed to diminished. From my mom's tribe in New Mexico there are four that are collected and all fall under the general term of talupiwa. These would be morels,brown matsutake,poplar tricholoma, and a local agaricus species.
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Re: Folk mushroom foragers [Re: YidakiMan]
#7559396 - 10/25/07 02:11 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yeah its weird how morels are hunted so avidly in the midwest and other are for the most part ignored. My grandpa came out here from minnesota and saw/hunted chanterelles for the first time in his life.
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Re: Folk mushroom foragers [Re: Ubermensch]
#7563643 - 10/26/07 02:58 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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There is alot of morel hunting around here in the spring. After the morel season, the hutning season sorta dies out, except for the diehards that spend the majority of the nonwinter season sniffing around in the forest. Chanterelles are also pretty popular around here to be harvested in the fall aswell.
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