I’d like say thank you to Sam for sending me a copy of Nature’s Garden: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants – looks like a great book and it is appreciated.
By the way, I would welcome any suggestions for books or videos on identifying, harvesting and preparing mushrooms in the wild. This one looks good.
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I’m surprised that no one has any suggestions or recommendations…
Here’s my suggestion MD- Get back to working on your book! It sounds like a real winner besides, half of you is not as good as all of you!
Don’t worry, our friend PND is sure to chime in with his well educated (on this subject – can’t build him up too much!) wisdom.
I didn’t even see your comment until after I posted my response. Gonna go wrap my head in tinfoil to keep you from controlling my actions. Way to build me up btw, considering I have no knowledge of identifying mushrooms. ;-D
Sounds like a plan – I’ll try to post a couple times a week – at least until I finish the book, then full speed ahead.
Youtube seems to have some stuff, I’ve found it easier to start with videos, then move on to the guide books once you’re comfortable with a few species.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=identifying+mushrooms&aq=f
I’m not brave enough for mushroom identification though, I’ll stick to eating weeds and seeds.
An old ’70′s rule of thumb for mushrooms – if it grows out of cow dung, it’ll make you high. However, that only applied in Hawaii & the jungles of Mexico, so I’ve been told ;-)
That being said do not mess with wild mushrooms, a friend of mine nearly died when he followed that rule and consumed the near lethal ones in El Salvador!
I have a guide to identifying Wild Mushrooms and Fungi, but it was my grandfather’s, who died in 1996, and something tells me it’s out of print. I’ve used it to harvest local mushrooms and I never got sick, except one time when I didn’t verify with the book!
Well now, in the little town I grew up in, there was a group of youngsters who harvested mushrooms that prospered in cow manure, and not one of them has normal mental capacity today. I encounted two of them at a high school reunion a couple of years ago, and can say with authority that mushroom tea is a brain cell killer.
The only place I would gather mushrooms is at the supermarket. j/s
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