Anyone Harvest their own mushrooms (cooking)?

Don't you need to grow non-psychedelic mushrooms in cow shite? Or am i thinking the opposite? I just know they like organic matter and moisture.

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Different types of mushrooms develop in different types of weather

Right now morels will start growing and you may can find them in hardwoods. I have not found any of these but I’ve also never really looked.

Chanterelle mature in the summer. They will pop up after a summer rain. They’re easy to find. They’re bright orange and absolutely delicious.

There are numerous that mature in the fall. Last fall I found a huge lions mane and brought it home. Cooked it and it was good but not a ton of flavor but they have a lot of other health benefits.

There are many others. Just have to get out and look.

We pick wild oyster mushrooms. This morning would probably be good to go after them. A cool 40-55 degrees, high humidity morning will make them pop. Look for them on willow and tupelo tree.

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Please give any details of how, where, etc? Is it tricky to get up to a certain level of confidence in the ID for safety purposes? Any free ID apps? The ones I see have that free trial and charge you bullshite.

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Mushroom and berry identification is overrated as dangerous. It’s really not difficult with very little education.

It’s like if you walk into a grocery store and your wife needs strawberries, you aren’t going to bring home blueberries.

As said, generally speaking each type has a ‘season’. I would say oyster mushrooms seem to have the longest season. Morels a fairly short spring season. I’ve found oysters from late summer to spring, maybe even spring idk. But a warmer winter humid day or a colder early fall day could all produce.

There’s only a handful of options that look like the 5-6 common varieties and most of them don’t have the same season, range, size, etc. among some of the other characteristics to identify them.

Like I said, it’s like picking wild berries. You don’t just find wild blackberries or blueberries all year and the plants are fairly easy to identify.