I have been fascinated with mushrooms for some time. Some are so bright and bold while others tend to blend in with their surroundings so well that it takes a good eye to spot one. As a child growing up in northern Indiana, one of my favorite family outings was to go mushroom hunting after a spring rain. We didn’t gather any and all mushrooms we saw, but we looked for two kinds only – morel mushrooms and what
My family likes to hunt mushrooms after it rains in the spring. We can do that in Indiana if we know which kinds of musrooms are safe to eat and which are not. Most are not, so don’t try hunting mushrooms to eat if you have to guess. You will die if you eat the wrong ones. We hunted for mushrooms in the woods in back of the field behind the barn. I really like the woods in the spring. The