It’s all in the milk! If the milk stings or burns your mouth, it’s bad, also poison milkys have a distinctive ring on the cap. There are a few players in the milky family but easy ways to tell the good from the bad. They are very meaty and hearty and can go in any creative combination on the dinner plate. The taste of these Lactarius mushrooms, to me, is some of the best. This months feature of the mushroom front is the fore mentioned Leatherback milky mushrooms. I’m excited to see what other surprises will emerge in the woods this month! Sharing knowledge and abundance are core beliefs for me and what I do. The tail gate markets have been wonderful and I have been able to offer fresh, wild mushrooms to many local and visiting folks. My guided mushroom and plant walks have been in full swing and we have been filling baskets with treasures of all kinds. This once again proves nothing in nature is certain and the times they are always changing! The forest ecosystem is a living, breathing entity and much like the human realm, it too changes appearances. Unusually Honey mushrooms popped up very early, Hen of the wood showed up and Lobster mushrooms came early. Besides that Milky, Leatherback, mushrooms have been wildly abundant also. In July I gathered the most Chanterelles I ever have, seeing familiar patches grow in size and finding new patches as well. We have been blessed with some wonderful rains in the month of July and it made for an exciting mushroom foraging experience. The word coming out of the end of July is ‘RAIN’.
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