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    How to Find Buckets of Morels (how to identify elm trees!)
    Ed Joice
    • Apr 4, 2021
    • 8 min

    How to Find Buckets of Morels (how to identify elm trees!)

    When hunting for morel (morchella esculenta)--and many of the most edible and delectable wild mushrooms--the best thing to do is counter...
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    Morels: Kings of the Woods
    Ed Joice
    • Apr 4, 2021
    • 7 min

    Morels: Kings of the Woods

    In the midwest, no other wild mushroom has captured the attention and the imagination of so many people as has the morel mushroom. It is...
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    Hen of the Woods or Maitake
    Ed Joice
    • Sep 26, 2020
    • 3 min

    Hen of the Woods or Maitake

    I love names that include “of the Woods” because it sounds so country in an endearing kind of way, but also most Japanese names just...
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    Beginner Part 2: Steps to ID a Mushroom
    Ed Joice
    • Aug 29, 2020
    • 4 min

    Beginner Part 2: Steps to ID a Mushroom

    If you’re walking through the woods, and you find a mushroom that makes you think: “wow, look at this [or all these]! We got a...
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    Cortinarius
    Ed Joice
    • Aug 29, 2020
    • 2 min

    Cortinarius

    The Cortinarius genus is one of my favorites. It yields a number of big and beautiful mushrooms with colorful features. These attractive...
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    Lobster Mushrooms
    Ed Joice
    • Aug 29, 2020
    • 4 min

    Lobster Mushrooms

    Over ten years ago, before I regularly hunted mushrooms, I remember first coming across these gnarled creatures growing from the ground....
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    Beginner Part 3: Families of Fungi
    Ed Joice
    • Aug 14, 2020
    • 6 min

    Beginner Part 3: Families of Fungi

    Since I was about 18, when walking through a forest I didn’t just see a sea of green leaves propped up by huge brown masts. Well, I mean...
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    Hedgehog Mushrooms
    Ed Joice
    • Jul 30, 2020
    • 3 min

    Hedgehog Mushrooms

    The hedgehog mushroom (Dentinum repandum) is honestly one of my absolute favorite wild harvested mushrooms in the midwest. It has a...
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    Amanitas: Nightmares of the Woods
    Ed Joice
    • Jul 25, 2020
    • 6 min

    Amanitas: Nightmares of the Woods

    The Amanita family of mushrooms is home to some of the most ubiquitous and classically beautiful mushrooms on the planet. That...
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    Chanterelles: Queens of the Woods
    Ed Joice
    • Jul 14, 2020
    • 5 min

    Chanterelles: Queens of the Woods

    The chanterelle is different from the morel in the midwestern US, in the sense that it is bright yellow or orange and is easy to spot...
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    Beginner Part 1: Introduction to Mushroom Hunting
    Ed Joice
    • Jul 14, 2020
    • 9 min

    Beginner Part 1: Introduction to Mushroom Hunting

    I meet a lot of folks who, after I tell them that I am an avid forager, will say “I’ve always wanted to get into that but don’t know...
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    Chickens of the Woods
    Ed Joice
    • Jun 29, 2020
    • 3 min

    Chickens of the Woods

    Bright orange and forming large shelf colonies along dead logs, these attractive and abundant mushrooms are some of the most rewarding...
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    Oysters of the Woods
    Ed Joice
    • Jun 29, 2020
    • 4 min

    Oysters of the Woods

    Let's talk a little about one of the lesser celebrated wild foragibles: the oyster mushroom (ostreatus pleurotus). This mushroom is...
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    Accurately Anticipating Morels
    Ed Joice
    • Jun 29, 2020
    • 4 min

    Accurately Anticipating Morels

    Morel mushrooms, at least here in Minnesota where I am based out of, are the golden child  of wild harvested mushrooms. Aside from...
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    Trees, Morels, and Mycorrhizal Relationships
    Ed Joice
    • Jun 29, 2020
    • 5 min

    Trees, Morels, and Mycorrhizal Relationships

    Before you can find morels, you have to know what to look for. By that, I do not mean the signs that the season is here in terms of...
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    Screw Morels, Check These Out!
    Ed Joice
    • Jun 29, 2020
    • 3 min

    Screw Morels, Check These Out!

    When you go fishing, sometimes you come home to show off a big beautiful trophy fish. Sometimes you just bring home a bunch of bluegill...
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