Minnesotans have many long-held foraging traditions, whether picking berries, tapping maple syrup or ricing on a lake. Interest in mushrooms has been steadily growing over the past decade ...

May is Morel Month in Michigan. Morels typically fruit from late May until mid-June, but weather conditions can impact this. Morels are the safest of the more than 2,000 wild mushroom types that ...

These mushrooms fall under the Verpa species and the Gyromitra species. If you’re new to mushroom hunting, you may need to forget some things you’ve heard about the fungi. In their “Don’t ...

They often grow in clusters, so a single mushroom may signal many nearby. Alongside true morels are a few ominous look-alikes known as “false morels” Verpa and Gyromitra species. These typically ...