Helping you find, identify, and prepare some of the best edible mushrooms and plants of Idaho and beyond
Welcome to the Foraging Community!
Would you like to learn more about the edible mushrooms, plants, and other useful botanicals in your area?
Do you live in, or plan to visit, Idaho, the Mountain West, or the Pacific Northwest? Then you’re in the right place!
How I Help
I like to teach people who are interested in foraging how to find, safely identify, and prepare botanical products, edible mushrooms, and other wild foods.
To equip you, on this site you’ll find articles with foraging tips, recipes for delicious foraged foods & beverages, and methods to prepare homemade botanical products.
Why I Do What I Do
I love building communities where people are inspired to spend time outdoors connecting with each other and the natural world. Consider me your morel support forager.
(Yeah, this site allows me to indulge my love of puns. That’s what it’s spore. Fair warning.)
Join the silliness, and I hope you enjoy sharing the fruits of your foraging adventures with family and friends as much as I do!
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How to Find and Identify Morels in Idaho and Beyond: A Comprehensive Guide
Learn the secrets to seek AND find Idaho’s morel mushrooms in this comprehensive eBook that outlines the habitats, seasons, and possible morel look-alikes you need to be aware of. From beginner to intermediate forager, there are tips to advance your education and experience.
Our Wild Idaho
Here in beautiful Idaho, whether you’re in the “big city” of Boise, the central mountains of McCall, or up north around Coeur d’Alene, there are hundreds of wild foods and useful plants available if you know where to look.
Two of our most famous (and delicious) wild foods are huckleberries and morel mushrooms, but there are many others like shaggy mane and porcini mushrooms, (Coprinus and Boletus spp.) or lamb’s quarters (Chenopodium) and dandelion greens, which you can easily learn to identify with a bit of effort and practice.
While my focus is on Idaho, the foraging tips, recipes, and other information I share should be applicable to many regions, including the greater Mountain West and Pacific Northwest (PNW).
The fact that Idaho spans 7 degrees of latitude means we have a wide variety of ecological habitats to explore, from old-growth temperate rain forests in the north to desert moonscapes and lava rock in the southeast.
With that diversity, there are bound to be delicious, nutritious, and beneficial wild foods somewhere within your reach!
On the Blog | Recipes, Tips, Guides, and Funnies
The Gift of Nature’s Bounty: Learn to Forage and Grow Your Own Food
Season’s greetings, fellow foragers and living-off-the-landers! One of the most common questions I receive is, “Do you have a foraging or mushroom-hunting course?” Well, finally the answer is yes! Although it’s not my own course, it’s one I trust wholeheartedly…
How to Find Morel Mushrooms in Idaho and Beyond: A Comprehensive Beginner’s Guide
Learn how to find and identify morel mushrooms in this comprehensive beginner’s guide that discusses the habitats, seasons, and possible look-alikes you need to be aware of.
Morchella fauxrelle ~ AKA the Fools’ Morel
Don’t get stumped by the Fools’ Morel this April Fools’ Day! How to use your brain to help find & identify the mushrooms and information you’re looking for.
Foraging for your own food is good for you…and Us.
Learning to forage can provide a wealth of benefits: supplementing your family’s diet with healthy, nutritious, and inexpensive food; regular and meaningful contact with nature; easy exercise with a purpose, and fostering new relationships with hundreds of other curious, knowledgeable, and fascinating individuals involved in foraging around the world.
When you gather food from a place, to feed people you care about, I find it changes your relationship with that location. You become a steward, with the responsibility to cultivate, tend, and pass that knowledge along to others.
This site and my occasional teaching appearances are intended to help newcomers to the foraging world access information that helps them grow in confidence, and to foster a community of more experienced foragers worldwide, to do the same in their own locale.
I hope I see you out on the trail soon!