I normally don’t mix my artistic bent with mushroom events, but a friend turned me on to riend turned me on to Worldlabel, a supplier of compatible Avery labels. Worldlabel offers free auto-fill PDF templates, and my gift-giving became worlds easier. So, I thought I’d share this label trick with you, as I know that some of you are real mushroom photographers/artists. For those who can’t draw a straight line with a ruler, I’ll share the tricks I use with iStock. This is one way to label those dried mushroom packages for yourself or for gifts.
“During the Renaissance, the absence of truffles from the tables of the mighty would have been an inadmissible embarrassment, and their chefs were under relentless pressure to present them with ingenuity and élan. The custom of the truffle tribute arose. In 1502, the nobles of the Marchigian region of Aquamagna made a gift of [...]
“algo” has had a love/hate relationship with mushrooms since a toddler. He writes:
It all started down on my Nana’s farm where on cool Autumn days one of the things we’d love to do was go Mushrooming. We’d hunt in dark damp places for them and would marvel at the different colors, sizes and shapes that [...]
I wasn’t feeling that well but after waiting through three weeks of cold weather, the warm rains had returned and it was time to go.
I would be looking for Clathrus ruber, which is not that uncommon in the woodchips of planted areas around the San Francisco bay area. Common or not, a photo up to [...]
One look at the front page of the Morel Mushroom Hunting Club Website, and you know that you’ve landed on a site filled with enthusiastic morel-ness. One click on the “Next” button below the graphic, and you’re transported to a page filled with glowing buttons that point you to anything from DNA studies on morels [...]
I received an email from Jason Edge in Southwest Wisconsin. Jason and his brother, Jesse, and friend, Brett, are very serious Morel Maniacs. Like us, they think about morels year ’round as you will note from the letter. It includes an interesting observation of the morel/dead elm relationship:…