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Blufire77 · 11-02-2008, 10:52 PM

It’s so ironic that I just came in from a day of planting ginseng out in the woods on my farm and found this thread.

Wow . . . . . absolutely beautiful pictures of super specimens, you definitely seem to have found your calling in life.

I too have been a long time gatherer of mushrooms and other forest flora for medicine and heavenly food. I had a very good teacher in my great Grandmother who would take me along on her medicinal herb gathering forays. Actually I think I was mostly the “pack mule”. I wish so much now that I would have paid more attention to her wisdom.

One rule she drilled over and over in my head was to never take every mushroom or plant in the area . . . . we always left two or three and thanked the “Spirit” for allowing us the bounty we did harvest.

Also very important when gathering mushrooms is to carry them in a net type bag so that the spore from the harvested mushrooms is dropped on to the forest floor as you hike along and therefore “reseeding” as you go.

I look forward to reading more in this particular thread. Really good stuff.

11-02-2008, 10:52 PM	#24
Blufire77 Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Kansas Posts: 54	Re: Edible & Medicinal Mushrooms, Forest Foods It’s so ironic that I just came in from a day of planting ginseng out in the woods on my farm and found this thread. Wow . . . . . absolutely beautiful pictures of super specimens, you definitely seem to have found your calling in life. I too have been a long time gatherer of mushrooms and other forest flora for medicine and heavenly food. I had a very good teacher in my great Grandmother who would take me along on her medicinal herb gathering forays. Actually I think I was mostly the “pack mule”. I wish so much now that I would have paid more attention to her wisdom. One rule she drilled over and over in my head was to never take every mushroom or plant in the area . . . . we always left two or three and thanked the “Spirit” for allowing us the bounty we did harvest. Also very important when gathering mushrooms is to carry them in a net type bag so that the spore from the harvested mushrooms is dropped on to the forest floor as you hike along and therefore “reseeding” as you go. I look forward to reading more in this particular thread. Really good stuff.