How to Forage for California's Mushrooms

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🗓️ 25 January 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

As winter rains descend, mushrooms are blooming across California — in oak and conifer forests, along riverbanks and even in your own garden. You can forage for “the winter trio:” yellow-footed chanterelles, black trumpets and hedgehogs. And you may even come across our new state mushroom, the massive (and delicious) California golden chanterelle. We’ll talk about how to identify California’s mushrooms, where to find them and how to forage ethically. Guests: Jess Starwood, author, "Mushroom Wanderland: A Forager's Guide to Finding, Identifying and Using More Than 25 Wild Fungi"; founder, The Wild Path School Gordon Walker, PhD biochemist, mushroom educator and fermentation consultant; host, Fascinated By Fungi podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:53.3	Coming up on forum, as winter rains descend, mushrooms are blooming across California,
0:59.0	in oak and conifer forests along riverbanks, and even in your own garden.
1:03.3	You can forage for the winter trio, yellow-footed chantrells, black trumpets, and hedgehogs,
1:09.4	and you may even come across our new state mushroom,
1:12.5	the massive California golden chanterelle. We'll talk about how to identify California's mushrooms,
1:18.6	where to find them, and how to forage ethically. It's fungi on forum after this news.
1:36.2	Music after this news. Welcome to Forum.
1:37.4	I'm Mina Kim.
1:38.6	It's official.
1:39.4	California has a state mushroom as of this month.
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