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celesse · 9 months

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An essential lesson of forest life 🌲🦊🦊🌿

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rebeccathenaturalist · 9 months

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I am all for creative sushi, but not when the creator doesn't fully understand the ingredients. A sushi restaurant in Montana served people sushi with raw and very undercooked morel (Morchella spp.) mushrooms on it. Over fifty people ended up sick with gastrointestinal upset, and two people actually died. Other restaurants that served the same batch of morels, fully cooked, had no such issues, and there was no evidence that there was any mishandling of the morels that could have caused a bacterial or other contamination. So it's pretty clear that the raw morels themselves were to blame.

Yes, there are a few wild mushroom species you can eat raw, and only in small amounts). No, Morchella are not among them. Morels have a toxin in them that's neutralized by cooking; Paul Stamets theorized that it's hydrazine, but no one has been able to isolate hydrazine in a morel yet so that's not a done deal. Whatever it is, there's enough of it that it tends to give people nasty gastrointestinal upset when they eat raw morels, even in small quantities. This is the first I've heard of people dying from it.

It's not the only time I've heard of people dying from consuming a commonly-considered-edible mushroom, though. There were two separate incidents--2004 and 2009--in which several people who ate angel wing mushrooms (Pleurocybella porrigens) died of encephalopathy. Now, it did turn out that most of the people sickened had pre-existing liver and/or kidney issues. And a 2011 study identified an unstable amino acid, now named Pleurocybellaziridine, as the possible fatal factor that was found in large quantities in angel wings. It could be that the culprits were flushes of these mushrooms with abnormally high amounts of Pleurocybellaziridine. But you can't tell how much of a given metabolite a given mushroom has just by looking at it, and so that raises enough of an alarm for me personally that as a forager I just put angel wings on the "do not eat" list.

Will I continue to eat morels? Yes. The toxicity associated with raw morels has been known for a long time, and there have been no recorded issues with thoroughly cooked morels (the angel wings were also cooked, meaning the toxin is not thermolabile.) And as mentioned before, almost any edible wild mushroom is going to give you gastrointestinal issues if you eat it raw. The mushrooms you get at the store are a weird outlier that can be safely eaten raw. And by the way, button mushrooms, criminis, and portobellos are all the same species--Agaricus bisporus--at different stages of development.

This is why I emphasize in my foraging classes that you should always cook your wild mushrooms thoroughly, and if you're trying a new species for the first time only eat a small amount and then wait a few days to make sure you don't have any reactions. As the saying goes, there are old mushroom hunters and there are bold mushroom hunters, but there are no old, bold mushroom hunters.

#mushrooms #mushroom hunting #mushroom foraging #foraging #edible mushrooms #morels #Morchella #fungi #fungus #mycology #poisonous mushrooms #nature #food #foragers #wild mushrooms #sushi #Montana #food safety

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leafycollages · 10 months

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eastern black walnut

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forageling · 8 months

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This year's growing season:

20 March 2023:

Today I planted cucumber, bellpepper, and cherry tomato seeds! Hopefully they'll all sprout!

22 April 2023:

The first seeds have successfully sprouted!

2 May 2023:

Lots of bellpepper plants and tomato plants have made it! And one strong cucumber plant!

I also planted some sunflower seeds, hopefully these will turn out well too!

26 May 2023:

My cucumber plant has opened its first flower of the year! (I've also transported all of my plants outside to our balcony and repotted them into bigger pots)

11 July 2023:

The very first cucumber is coming, the tomato plants are getting really big now, the bellpepper plants are finally starting to get bigger too, and the pumpkins which i planted the other day are getting more tiny leaves!

7 August 2023:

The flowers on my tomato plants are finally turning into tomatoes, the pumpkin plants are growing and growing and growing, my first cucumber is almost ready to harvest, the first sunflower is slowly starting to open up, and the bellpepper plants are finally starting to produce flowers!

25 August 2023:

The very first sunflower has opened, more and more tomatoes are popping up, the first bellpepper is on its way, and my pumpkin plant is starting to bloom!

31 August 2023:

More and more sunflowers are starting to open, the pumpkin plants are getting absolutely gigantic, and it looks like i'm gonna get another cucumber this year!

07 September 2023:

The first tomatoes are finally ready to harvest, i've counted 8 bell peppers that are getting bigger and bigger, the cucumber plant has 3 new babies (but i'm not sure whether they'll make it cause the plant is not looking too good), almost all sunflowers are blooming now, and i think the pumpkin flowers are starting to slowly turn into tiny little pumpkins!

#garden core #garden #veggies #plants #plantblr #tomatoes #bell peppers #pumpkins #pumpkin #cucumber #sunflower #sunflowers #foragecore #foragers #foraging

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oldfilmsflicker · 3 months

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new-to-me #59 - Foragers

#2024 in Films #Foragers #Jumana Manna #52 films by women #directed by women #Palestinian cinema

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solarpunkcitizen · 1 year

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#maple syrup #syrup #alexis nikole #foragers

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thefarmersblog · 1 year

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The whole of this combe was covered with wild garlic, the smell was quite something! I picked a few leaves and once I got home I washed and chopped them finely and put them into butter to make cheese and wild garlic scones! The wild garlic really adds a delicate flavour to it that makes the scones that little more spring-like.

#cottagecore #nature #naturecore #foragers #foragedfood #foraging #foragecore #flowers #british flowers #plantblr #grandmacore #baking

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mushroomquartz · 11 months

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I went foraging a few days ago after rain. None of this was eaten, it was all chopped up and tossed into my compost to help break down my compost better. All but the moss, I gave that to a friend for her to use some buttermilk and spread it around her home! 🍄

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gelerthaver · 11 months

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just added two locations to this today so i wanted to remind everyone about fallingfruit. it's a collaborative, community driven map of edible forage with pinpoints all around the world directing you to wild edibles growing in your area.

some places have more pins, some have less. if there's not many in your area and you know somewhere that wild forage grows, add it! you don't need an account and can remain completely anonymous while enabling others in your area to collect fresh food that may otherwise not be noticed or enjoyed by anyone, and you may find some spots where you live that you didn't know about before :)

#forage #foraging #freegan #wild food #wild edibles #wild edible plants #mutual aid #food aid #fallingfruit #falling fruit #foragecore #forager #foragers #foragedfood #i don't normally tag this heavily on original posts but i <3 ff

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sappy-witch · 8 months

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lost-and-created · 6 months

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I might be getting the hang of this foraging thing😁

#oyster mushrooms #foraging #foragecore #foraged #foragers #forage MN #mushrooms

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loubella77 · 17 days

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He’s the best bf ever

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aisling-saoirse · 1 year

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Wild Leek - Allium Tricoccum

Spring in American forests brings a lot of strange spring ephemerals, ramps are one of those early sprouting understory plants. Ramps are a species of wild garlic, growing from bulbs in dense clusters. Leaves are light green with purplish tints on the lower stem. Typically the presence of ramps (in America) determine whether a forest has seen little disturbance in the past century, older forests are the only location to really find a decent population. I specify a difference in the American species since A. ursinum the European species is known for taking over forests in England and Scandinavia.

As seen in the image above, ramps grow rather densely in large numbers, but A. tricoccum is very sensitive to disturbance. If you do forage ramps, do not harvest the bulb and only take one leaf per plant (and please try to use invasive garlic mustard as a more plentiful substitute which is visible in this image). If you're interested in propagating this species know that the leaves and the flowers are not present at the same time, you'll have to memorize a location and spread any seeds in alluvial moist gentle slopes (areas in forests that water will flow over but not remain). Flowers have long stalked umbels (semi-circular in form) with white flowers, similar to garden alliums.

Making Ramp Pesto:

I promised a recipe and now here it is. I learned this when harvesting the European ramps in risskov when I lived in denmark. Basically you'll need a food processor and olive oil.

1 Bunch of Ramp Leaves (you don't need a lot)

1/4 cup of olive oil

One quarter slice worth of lemon juice

3/4 cup of walnuts (foragers can use hickory if you saved some from before winter)

1/4 cup of grated Parmesan

Salt and pepper

Grind it up and you're ready for some strong pesto for some pasta. Feel free to use more walnuts and olive oil as necessary, ramps are very strong and more will not really affect the flavor.

#nature #new jersey #ramps #wild leek #american native plants #foragers #reciprocal relationship #people typically like to make soup out of them #please remember this is a staple spring food source to indigenous nations and overhearvesting them is destroying their access to these

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forageling · 8 months

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12 August 2023

Look at my grandma's calendulas this year!!