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RE: The Amateur Mycologist - Random Find - Likely Agaricus campestris - The Field Mushroom
Hi!! I'm new here and excited to see another mushroom nerd like myself. :-) Great post highlighting key points in mycology and identification. I love that you left this as a unknown. ALWAYS better safe than sorry when it comes to mushrooms. Keep up the good work, I'll be following.
Our numbers are growing here on Steemit! Met a couple of new mushroom enthusiasts in the last week. Looking forward to seeing your content!
Great! Resteem them so I can find them too!! haha I'll be posting my pickled chicken of the woods recipe today as my first mushroom post. We have been finding so much yumminess in the forest lately and have been knocking on multiple doors a week to get permission to harvest lion's mane and maitake from random people's yards. I feel like the crazy mushroom lady lately and definitely get those looks when I stop to beat on a someones door. haha Looking forward to your future posts!
That's very funny - and very upstanding of you! Not so many enjoy the mushrooms that grow on their property, but better safe than sorry, cause you know that one fanatic whose Lion's mane you take is gonna go crazy. ;)
I used to talk more about edibility in my posts and decided against it - but if you're knowledgable and detailed there is a big steemit market for that information in homesteading and foraging, just fyi. I will certainly be checking it out!
Very good to know!! And yes, I'd go crazy if someone took a lions mane out of my yard I had watching and waiting to mature. lol I'll definitely be sharing identification posts on foraging periodically. There is so much I'm uncomfortable with when it comes to mushrooms but I do have about 30 species where I'm pretty confident. I have an identification and safety certification in these species and a permit to forage to sell them in 3 USA states. I'll never post anything in confidence I have doubts about and feel like there should always be a liability statement too. I'm looking forward to watching/reading your posts! Thanks so much for the encouragement...I've been on steemit less than 24 hours now and have met so many nice people!
That's awesome! 30 species is a ton to feel that comfortable about. I imagine it encompasses the big names in edibility, but with that many you must have more obscure ones under your belt as well. I would be interested in a post just about that and your licensure - didn't even know they had licenses like that in the US, although it makes sense.
Good idea to do a post about it!! It's a fairly new law and this is the first year my state (NC) has a certification process. I'm still trying to educate my chefs and fellow foraging friends about the necessity of it...not everyone is happy about the change but I personally think it was a wise move.
Oh definitely - it always seemed crazy to me that people could just sell found mushrooms without vetting their skillset. Once a restaurant is serving wild mushrooms people will drop their guards entirely and assume they're safe. So the vetting definitely should be done before hand, at least to establish a baseline of skill. Though I understand how this might frustrate individuals who make their living off the trade.
That is exactly the issues being debated as people are trying to adjust to the new laws.