This week’s mushroom found me just as I was trying to cultivate a different type of mushroom. While this happened just this past...

Good evening, friends, This past week was one that featured many different mushrooms — a few which I had never seen before — and...

This past weekend we gathered in a hollow of Panther Mountain in Phoenicia, NY for the biannual Friends of Fungi retreat.

“How many mushrooms around here actually are edible?” It was just a few minutes before closing at the coffee shop where I was writing...

Good evening, friends, This past weekend I travelled up to Standish, Maine and the banks of Sebago Lake where the Maine Fungi Festival...

Good evening, friends, This week we’re going back to the burn to examine another peculiar little mushroom. I found these burn beacons...

Good evening, friends, I found this week’s mushroom both yesterday and today as I poked around a couple burn sites from last fall’s...

Mayapple Rust ( Allodus podophylli ) Good evening, friends, This week’s fungus is one I’ve wanted to write about for years. I first found...

Good evening, friends, This week’s mushroom is the half-free morel ( Morchella punctipes ) which we found last weekend at Morelfest ....

“We need some rain”, I say as we pick our way through the parched woodlands at Wave Hill last Friday. I said this offhandedly and didn’t...

Good evening, friends, Today’s mushroom comes to us from a walk this past week in Harwich, MA with renowned mushroomer Larry Millman ....

Good morning, friends, This week’s mushroom comes to us from a rainy day a couple weeks ago in Beebe Woods in Falmouth, MA. The nice...

Good evening, friends, This week’s mushroom comes from the same walk as last week’s Stereum , but this one required a bit more...

Good evening, friends, This past Saturday* I met up with my new friend Nathan (founder of mushroomobserver.org ) to look for mushrooms at...

Good evening, friends, I took advantage of the rain yesterday and got out to look for mushrooms in the Frances A. Crane Wildlife...

Good evening, friends, and Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! We’re going to deviate from the typical single species profile and lean into the...

Good evening, friends, We return to Beebe Woods a week later and a good bit wetter. We experienced a substantial soaking this past...

I took a stroll through Beebe Woods in Falmouth, MA last week on a day when temps were mild and we had just gotten a little rain.

Today we’ll stay in Paris and look at the one fresh, non-cultivated mushroom we found during our stay.

We’re safely back in the states after our India trip and an extended layover in Paris.