Dried leaves, bark scraps, fallen walnuts — just about everything on the forest floor looked like a morel. I was roughly 40 ...

Wild Side column: But with elms scarce in Eastern Iowa, mushroom hunters need to find alternatives It’s humbling to realize ...

Morel mushroom hunting is an art that can take years to perfect. In Washtenaw County, Carrie Hensel of Ann Arbor has been ...

Another season is biting the dust. The best season for avid morel mushroom hunters is coming to a close. Our crazy Northern ...

Midwesterners head to the woods to find morel mushrooms. But some in the region are developing methods to reliably farm the ...

Tom Weipert looks at an overturned tree for mushroom life April 17 in the Ferguson ... which involves the morel’s obtaining nutrients from dead and decaying plant matter, or parasitic, which ...

While oysters naturally grow on dead logs and trees, they can also grow well in straw, woodchips, or other carbonaceous materials. Keeping the pile shaded and moist will provide the optimum conditions ...

Morels are the fruiting body of mycelium that either lives symbiotically with living vegetation or decomposes dead vegetation ... a mushroom-hunting hobby is to brush up on state tree knowledge.

"Trees matter" when it comes to finding mushrooms, Weipert said ... which involves the morel’s obtaining nutrients from dead and decaying plant matter, or parasitic, which involves the morel ...