Archive for 'Black Trumpet Mushroom'
Posted: August 3rd, 2008 by
Frank
Last year we skimmed along the edge of drought for most of the summer, and as a result the mushrooming stank. Despite many trips into the woods, we got a single not very full gallon freezer bag of black trumpets. The good news is that it was just enough on top of 2005’s spectacular stash
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Posted under Black Trumpet Mushroom, Chanterelles, Food, Mushrooms, Sweet Teeth Mushroom, oyster.
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Posted: August 2nd, 2008 by
Lisa
I made a zero-mile meal for dinner tonight, after we went mushroom hunting in our woods and scored loads and loads of oyster mushrooms. We found a dead cherry tree just covered in them, and they were right at prime in both size and age. Sweet! Actually, oyster mushrooms are slightly sweet. We’ve found
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Posted under Black Trumpet Mushroom, Food, Mushrooms, oyster.
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Posted: September 23rd, 2007 by
Frank
It’s ten days since the last entry. There’ve been no big developments, but much that might be worth remembering in next year, or in 2010. We’ve continued to check for mushrooms every two or three days. We caught one more small flush of trumpets (and three chanterelles) in good time, and found the remains
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Posted under Black Trumpet Mushroom, Chanterelles, Chipper, Farm Life, Horse Housing, Mushrooms, Sheep, illness.
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Posted: September 13th, 2007 by
Frank
After three days of rain, we went out into the woods with high hopes, and we got some results. First we found the remnants of a small flush of black trumpets, on one side of the black trumpet mother lode. They were almost gone by, but we can’t be choosy this year, and we
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Posted under Allium, Black Trumpet Mushroom, Farm Life, Pond scoop, oyster.
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Posted: October 14th, 2003 by
Frank
I think we can call the mushroom season over, so I want to sum things up for future years. On the wild mushroom front we’ve done well: we’ve learned to recognize several very good species. Puffballs, chanterelles and sweet teeth in all show promise. Unfortunately I don’t like the texture of the little puffballs as
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Posted under Black Trumpet Mushroom, Blewitt, Chanterelles, Chips, Elm Oyster, Hypsizygus ulmarius, Hen of the Woods, Honey Mushrooms, Mulch, Mushrooms, Reviews, Sweet Teeth Mushroom, stropharia.
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Posted: September 30th, 2003 by
Frank
Our friend Paul came over today, and the three of us took a walk out in our woods. We had high hopes that all of the rain we’ve had this year would make for many good edible mushroom, and indeed, that was the case. Our big finds: Black Trumpet Mushrooms: We found tons of these.
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Posted under Black Trumpet Mushroom, Cauliflower Mushrooms, Chanterelles, Honey Mushrooms, Sweet Teeth Mushroom.
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