Chaga (Inonotus obliquus). Black gold Have you ever walked in the woods, and noticed this black canker on the trunk of birch trees? It looks like black charcoal from the fire, growing on a tree with rusty brown color inside. You have found chaga. It is a fungi that grows on birch primarily, with some …
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Chaga
Mushroom mania
It happened again, it hits me every year, in the fall. I get a strange magnetic pool, that drags me to the woods, with the basket on my shoulder, and a pocket knife at my belt, to discover the hidden forest gems, the mushrooms. It is a thrill, an adventure, anticipation of what is there …
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Wild Oyster Mushrooms – delicious and sustainable fungi
It is the middle of June in Northern Wisconsin, and we see Oyster Mushrooms popping up everywhere! They grow with one flat side attached to the tree trunks of dead wood. Sometimes you have to look high. A lot of the times they lack the traditional mushroom stem, and have gills underneath the cap. Their …
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