Posted on 12/27/2022 11:31:51 AM PST by Red Badger
Former neighbor of mine comes by early every spring with some of his kids. They spend some time picking up branches off my grass and then go across my creek and forage for morel mushrooms and ramps on my wooded hillside. I’ve let them collect over there for years.
Back in the late 40s, as a real youngster, I used to hunt mushrooms with my Grandfather in the old World’s Faire Grounds in Queens, NY. There were these wide boulevards with center medians that were bordered with some type of shrubbery. Over the years those bushes had gotten so big that they made a tunnel of the center of the median. Grandpa would fight his way through the thicket and we would hunt in that dark tunnel. He carried a rectangular vegetable basket and a pointed stick...his “diggin’ stick”... and I would hunt them up for him. I couldn’t tell you what type they were (NOT morel) or which ones were “bad”, but I could always spot the ones HE wanted.
In Missouri.
The DEA might take an interest in your hobby ...
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