Jessica found these beautiful pink fungi fruiting on some salmonberry wood near the field. They might be Pleurotus djamor, the pink oyster mushroom, but could also be something else. We aren’t going to eat them. In the past I’ve found various delicious Pleurotus species fruiting happily during the cold weather of winter and very early spring. [...]
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- December 18, 2012 – 7:32 pm
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- November 12, 2012 – 9:32 pm
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- September 29, 2012 – 9:05 pm
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- October 13, 2011 – 8:34 pm
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- September 26, 2011 – 9:15 pm
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- September 22, 2011 – 7:59 pm
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I found this lobster mushroom on Cortes Island. We went spearfishing as well, though I don’t have any photos of that, you’ll have to take my word for it that it was amazing.
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- September 9, 2011 – 9:46 pm
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Jessica found the beautiful creature in the photograph. I feel that it’s dramatic appearance marks the start of the 2011 mushroom season for us. I’m 99% certain it is Laetiporus sulphureus. I hope to be 100% sure soon, after spending some time with my fungi identification mentors on Cortes Island.
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- September 5, 2011 – 7:38 pm
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I have never seen oyster mushrooms in such great abundance . While out for a brief jog (I have a photo shoot for GQ coming up) I counted more than twenty trees covered in delicious, delicious oysters. I suppose our exceptionally moist, cool spring has encouraged them to fruit lustily. Jessica and I made a [...]
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- June 2, 2011 – 5:51 pm
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- May 22, 2011 – 10:44 pm
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One of the benefits of coarse mulch is the increased variety of fungal life it encourages in gardens. Pictured at right is a clump of mushrooms growing out of some straw atop a sheet-mulched potato bed.
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- May 21, 2011 – 8:47 pm
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For many years I have searched for Morels. Once, in May of 2007, I found one disconnected from it’s mycelium, lying atop a vegetable bed, dropped from the heavens by creatures or deities unknown. Today, Jessica found one while weeding a garden. A few moments later, more were spotted, and for the first time in [...]
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- May 17, 2011 – 8:43 pm
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- April 9, 2011 – 10:54 pm
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- March 21, 2011 – 10:25 pm
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Jessica and I are going to Asia for a while, and won’t be back in Canada ’till February. This blog isn’t dead, its just resting. I will start posting again sometime around the first or second week of February. Thanks for following, and have a nice winter.
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- November 15, 2010 – 3:38 pm
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- November 13, 2010 – 5:54 pm
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- November 4, 2010 – 6:27 pm
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- October 30, 2010 – 6:42 pm
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- October 27, 2010 – 9:28 pm
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These two photos show two stages in the development of Amanita muscaria, the fly agaric mushroom. The time elapsed between the cute little button stage and the fully-grown, majestic, visible-from-space stage is around four or five days. Watching this sort of dramatic transformation is one of my life’s greatest pleasures.
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- October 26, 2010 – 7:17 pm
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- October 24, 2010 – 8:59 pm
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I left Quadra this past weekend for my annual Cortes Island mushroom foray with my dear friends Max and Kate. Last year I vowed to learn a new edible mushroom every year, and this year it was the winter chanterelle, Craterellus tubaeformis. These delicious fungi grow in the same type of mossy, older coniferous forests [...]
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- October 18, 2010 – 8:52 pm
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I am fairly certain the fungi pictured at right are what are commonly known as Elfin Saddles. I find this name to be delightfully whimsical, and very appropriate. I didn’t manage to get any good pictures of the elves that were riding the mushrooms when I arrived – They jumped off and ran away, screaming, [...]
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- October 14, 2010 – 8:44 pm
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Pictured at right are my fingers squeezing a mature puffball. I have always assumed that they enjoy being coaxed into releasing their spores, though I suppose it is possible they would rather be left alone. Until I learn otherwise, I will continue to squeeze and poke them, as I enjoy watching the spores drift away.
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- October 11, 2010 – 6:29 pm
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I went to North Vancouver last week to visit family and give a presentation about cover crops and mulch. My father and I went looking for Armillaria mushrooms in Lynn Headwaters Park, though we didn’t find any young enough to pick.
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- October 6, 2010 – 4:04 am
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- October 1, 2010 – 1:39 am
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Earth stars are remarkable. Raindrops hitting their round convex surfaces (official term agreed upon by mycologists: “the nipple”) release spores into the atmosphere. The photo at right was tricky to take, as I had to hold and shoot my camera with one hand, while poking the nipple with the other. In the process spores covered [...]
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- September 24, 2010 – 9:48 pm
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- September 21, 2010 – 4:10 am
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- September 20, 2010 – 5:19 am
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The summer was hot and dry until early September, when the rains returned with great vigor. Jessica and I went on our first mushroom hunt of the year this morning, to some older second-growth forest near Open Bay. We found some delicious chanterelles, and plan to go back for more soon. We may sell some [...]
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- September 19, 2010 – 3:25 am
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If we are doing it wrong, we won’t know for many months. Jessica and I spent many blissful hours together in the workshop over the past couple of days, side by side, drilling 21/64th-inch diameter holes into freshly-cut alder logs. I’ve grown mushrooms before, but never on solid logs, never outside, and never on such [...]
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- April 19, 2010 – 9:43 pm
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