Forest farming/foraging/mushrooms walks

[David Spahr]

I am trying to organize some forest farming/foraging/mushrooming walks at my property in Washington Maine. I would like to do some Saturday mornings if the interest is there. I am farming my woodlot with indigenous forest trees, plants, bushes, mushrooms etc. I have some cultivars and veg gardening too. Let me know if you have interest. I do have one date already filled on July 19th.

I am also available at times for private and semi private mushroom/foraging walks. See my website. http://mushroom-collecting.com

David Spahr

[Sue Ferra]

Have you collected wild parsnips or wild carrot before? If so, do you have recommendations, recipes, etc that you would be willing to share?
S

[David Spahr]

I don't find wild parsnips around here. Mostly wild carrots are too woody. One must be careful with those because of very poisonous look a likes. Not much of a root guy anyway.

David

[dana lovette]

Hi there,
I am doing research for someone who will be in Maine next week and wants to go mushroom hunting. Please contact me via email at [e-mail] if you are still available for being a guide or doing mushroom walks on your property. If you are not, do you know of anybody who does this type of thing that I could contact?

Thank you greatly!!

Dana

[Deborah Chadbourne]

I am very interested but work a farmers' market on Saturday mornings 9-1 and have a two hour drive to Washington. If you schedule another time, please let me know. I find a great variety of tempting mushrooms on walks in the woods and would love to know enough to collect and (relatively) safely eat some of them.

When will your book be available and where can I buy it?

I bought plug spawn, indoor or outdoor kits for: Blewitt, Chicken of the Woods, Enoki, Lions Mane, Maitake, Morels, Oyster, Pioppino, & Shiitake from Fungi Perfecti last year. I eagerly await the chance to harvest and eat some of these. I eat and sell foraged greens and have long yearned to be able to eat (but not sell) foraged mushrooms.

Thanks!
Deborah Chadbourne

[David Spahr]

I would be curious to know how all this kits work out. I had mixed success and decided to mostly do my own propagation projects. If you have dowel plugs you can drop a few into some more soaked dowel plugs and it will probably work to make many more. 300 dowel plugs doesn't do many logs at all.

Oysters aren't too hard to grow from oysters you find (in the fall). There is an awful lot of wild maitake around so I don't need to grow it.

[heinz milenkovic]

This is our second full year of residing in Maine. So far, found a good site for Chanterelles and also an unexpected major site for Boletus Edulis, though the more mature Boletus fruit all had larvae in them. The Chanterelles seem to attract slugs.

Would like to share in discussions of indigenous 'rooms that are specific to DownEast Maine.

Hope that this year's wet weather creates a bumper crop.

[David Spahr]

I'm thinking this will be a good chanterelle and trumpet year. It's almost too wet right now. Wetness encourages slugs. Slugs like most mushrooms.

Last year was a good year for people for chanterelles around Baxter and in western Maine. They got a lot of rain while we got nothing. They had them in biblical numbers. I'm not that far from Downeast. I'm sure that you find what I find.

My book will be available in about 3 weeks.


David

[Jeffrey Bean]

David
I was looking for some information regarding your foraging on Saturday mornings. Are you still doing this? I owuld like to take my mother on a great walk like this. Would we be able to pick any mushrooms, edibles and then take home to cook? What would be the price for the walk (per person)?

I had read about your book before and was really interested.

Let me know.

Thanks,
Jeffrey Bean

[David Spahr]

Jeffrey,

At present I expect to start doing walks shortly. Be advised that this will involve some less than easy walking. Bushwhacking here and there. Right now there aren't many mushrooms. As far as everybody doing a lot of picking goes, if we pick them all then there will be a problem the next week. It may depend on where. It would be good to email me at [e-mail] to get on my email list. It won't be all about mushrooms.

David