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Post by sd51555 on May 19, 2018 16:59:26 GMT -6
Found a ton of large pheasants. After the screen door event, I’ve lost my desire for them.  Found an apple tree growing along a side hill seep or a spring. Nothing noteworthy other than the huge flowers.   Also found a button buck skull that had been drug into a hollowed our trunk.  |
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Post by sd51555 on May 19, 2018 17:00:20 GMT -6
And struck out on morels. Need a new spot.
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Post by Catscratch on May 20, 2018 6:37:27 GMT -6
Looks like nice time in the woods. Too bad you found no morels though. Can you train a cat to sniff them out? Kind of a sd version of the truffle pig...
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Post by benmnwi on May 22, 2018 12:01:35 GMT -6
Is that apple tree a new find? That's pretty cool to find a new apple tree you didn't know was there.
Did the pheasantback mushrooms not agree with you? I saw a ton of pheasantback mushrooms in my woods when I was looking for morels, but I'm a little gun shy to try new mushrooms.
The morels finally started popping behind my house in SE MN, so I've been eating way too many of them. Not enough to get sick, but I think I'm getting close to that line. I haven't had any luck freezing or drying morels, so I gorge on them for a week or two and then I'm good for a year.
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Post by sd51555 on May 22, 2018 14:20:09 GMT -6
Is that apple tree a new find? That's pretty cool to find a new apple tree you didn't know was there. Did the pheasantback mushrooms not agree with you? I saw a ton of pheasantback mushrooms in my woods when I was looking for morels, but I'm a little gun shy to try new mushrooms. The morels finally started popping behind my house in SE MN, so I've been eating way too many of them. Not enough to get sick, but I think I'm getting close to that line. I haven't had any luck freezing or drying morels, so I gorge on them for a week or two and then I'm good for a year. I ate them raw. I got the splatter shits with a violent PSI I’d never experienced before. 6 hours of that repeating about every 45 minutes. |
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Post by Foggy on May 22, 2018 14:54:15 GMT -6
When the morels were really easy to find......about 30+ years ago (due to all the elm trees dying) we would find mushrooms by the grocery bags. I think our biggest haul came from near swan lake in Nicollet County. Two of us filled the back of my friends station wagon with bags of morells. We'd just cut them in 1/2 (the long way) and dry them in the sun on old window screens. For several years we almost ran a production line with the "shrooms". When dry, we put them in gallon jars.....and they kept like that for several years. Some guys were selling them.....but we ate most of ours. I know we had to finally throw out some of the old gallons.....as they didn't look healthy. I lived near Courland MN....dwon along the MN River. I had dead elm trees we cut down. I had to stop my lawn mower to pick mushrooms in the spring. Sometimes I didn't have time to pick 'em.....so I just mowed em down. ARGH.....cn hardly believe I did that now......but they were quite plentiful for about ten years or so. My father in law and a group would makes mushroom trips to Rochester MN areas for many years thereafter. Seemed to be good hunting there. The good old days......  . |
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Post by benmnwi on May 22, 2018 15:09:37 GMT -6
Is that apple tree a new find? That's pretty cool to find a new apple tree you didn't know was there. Did the pheasantback mushrooms not agree with you? I saw a ton of pheasantback mushrooms in my woods when I was looking for morels, but I'm a little gun shy to try new mushrooms. The morels finally started popping behind my house in SE MN, so I've been eating way too many of them. Not enough to get sick, but I think I'm getting close to that line. I haven't had any luck freezing or drying morels, so I gorge on them for a week or two and then I'm good for a year. I ate them raw. I got the splatter shits with a violent PSI I’d never experienced before. 6 hours of that repeating about every 45 minutes. Are you supposed to be able to eat them raw? I've never heard of anyone eating mushrooms raw before. |
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Post by benmnwi on May 22, 2018 15:13:41 GMT -6
There's still some pretty decent morel hunting by Rochester. The biggest elm (over 24" diameter) on my land here died about 4 years ago and it has been a very consistent producer. It seems like most of the elms here die before they get a foot in diameter and those smaller ones don't seem to produce quite as consistently as the big old elms.
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Post by Reagan on May 22, 2018 16:09:26 GMT -6
Never eat a foraged mushroom raw. Even a morel will make you sick of it is not cooked.
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Post by nhmountains on May 22, 2018 16:23:30 GMT -6
SD,
Was that apple tree on your land? The blossoms look like apple but, the large clusters don't look like apple to me. Do you have any other photos of tgeshape of the tree or bark?
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Post by sd51555 on May 22, 2018 18:46:27 GMT -6
SD, Was that apple tree on your land? The blossoms look like apple but, the large clusters don't look like apple to me. Do you have any other photos of tgeshape of the tree or bark? That was the only pic I took. It was on some government owned land about ten miles west of Marshall. This is the same spot where the USFWS was ripping out shelter belts last year at mushroom time. It just dawned on me, I should have looked in those strips where they tore out all the trees. They've ripped out every tree and shrub out there that wasn't on highly erodible land. If the rest of that woods was flat, I think they'd push that out too. |
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Post by nhmountains on Oct 5, 2018 19:03:01 GMT -6
Is this bears tooth mushroom? It's on an old fallen beech log.   |
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Post by Reagan on Oct 5, 2018 19:11:20 GMT -6
Lion’s mane?
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Post by sd51555 on Oct 7, 2018 19:24:14 GMT -6
That's outta my wheelhouse.
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Post by Catscratch on Oct 7, 2018 19:36:29 GMT -6
Pretty sure I found a hen today.   |
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