I wouldn't mind picking the mushrooms to sell to someone else. I just wouldn't eat them.[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]

 

Oh yes, love hunting those morels. In 2002 there were a boatload of those mushrooms. I had enough to share with my dad and uncles (they taught me what to look for when I was a kid) and still had plenty for a couple of meals for the wife and I. I hope to be looking for them around the last two weeks of April and possibly the first week of May - depends on if the weather will cooperate.

 

mushroom hunters are all over the place out here

 

YES!, Morel's are great! They are great mixed with scrambled eggs, or have them with fried sunfish or crappies. There is many other ways to make them of course. When you hunt them you could use a onion sack with small holes to collect them. This way as you walk around, the spores can fall out and hopefully populate new areas with these tasty fungi![img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]

 

Here's a good link for those that are less informed. My favorite way to prepare morels is with scrambled eggs, omelets and mushroom soup...

 

you know them white button mushrooms you see in grocery stores? where do they grow ?

 

I believe those are cultivated (farmed) mushrooms. I know Kennett Square, PA is famous for growing them, but I'm sure they are harvested elsewhere too...

 

If i find a big patch of morels shod i leave the little ones??

 

WOW, I must be in the wrong part of the country. I've never even heard of such a thing. I do like mushrooms though and not the freaky kind.

 

I don’t pick them if they look immature (to give them a chance to grow more). What is more important is be careful how you pick them. It’s important not to disturb their “root” system which amounts to long strands of a very fine thread-like material. The “fruit” (mushrooms) pop up from these threads and breaking it up can mess up a patch. So it’s better to break or cut the stem just above the ground. Also like someone else mentioned, use an onion bag (fishnet-like) to collect them in as theoretically this gives spores a chance to fall off and make their way back to the ground…