****A bumper crop of deadly wild “death cap” mushrooms..***
NOT A CROP!!
Wild mushrooms should never be harvested. I learned that as a child and passed it to my kids. One of their teachers and I took a class to a local park and picked dozens of species. We displayed them and taught the children NOT to ever eat them. A writer/photographer from the local paper printed an article, describing the dangers.
Where has our common knowledge and common sense gone?
Morels absolutely should be harvested. You’re a fool to pass those up. Plus there isn’t anything that resembles them, not even the red morel, so they are quite safe.
“Wild mushrooms should never be harvested”
Well I don’t agree, I have been picking and eating wild mushrooms for decades - along with many friends.
You do need to know what you are doing. And you do need some common sense. Same goes for wild plants. Heck - parts of many animals can kill you also.
Sorry. I beg to differ. When the Morel mushrooms are in season, I am out there searching. There is nothing finer than Morels with egg batter and Ritz crackers fried in butter.