My friend Sam Delventhal was out 8 hours today searching for morels. Sam scored 12 pounds. He stopped by to give me a pound tonight. The going rate at the local gas stations is 20 dollars a pound. The gas stations sell them for 25-28 pounds. This is quite normal until the Morel Mushroom Days are finished this weekend in Muscoda. I have seen them going for 30-35 dollars a pound at the Madison Farmer’s Market. Sam says there is about 10 more days of morel hunting left.
In the open sunny areas I’m finding them already dried up and done. Northern facing slopes the small greys are just popping up. I’ve picked about 35 pounds yesterday and today
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In the open sunny areas I’m finding them already dried up and done. Northern facing slopes the small greys are just popping up. I’ve picked about 35 pounds yesterday and today
Wow Randy I’ve never seen that many Morels, good picking! I love the things.
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Randy Wieland wrote:</div>
In the open sunny areas I’m finding them already dried up and done. Northern facing slopes the small greys are just popping up. I’ve picked about 35 pounds yesterday and todayWow Randy I’ve never seen that many Morels, good picking! I love the things.
A little luck this year. We had 3 “parent” trees die in the last couple years. When those huge elms die, gold mine for a couple years. I had about 10# by 1 tree. It’s been about 10 years since I walked into a gold mine like that. They were thick for about 70 feet out around the tree
I found 3 over lunch today….. 
I have a buddy here from Denver now. He is here for the NWT Tourney and Turkey hunting. He has never seen or ate morels before, I hit a mother load this week when he was turkey hunting. I sautéed up a bunch the other night, and like most people he loved them…So The next day we went looking for morels. Well I think he set the world record for fineding his 1st shroom. I pull up to one of my spots he got out of the truck walked about ten feet or less, And says theres one.!! … rrr
We have actually had a few grow on part of our yard the last couple years. I just about tore every muscle in my shoulders and toro jerking the steering wheel of the lawnmower when I saw I was about to run them over!
Has anyone ever ordered a kit online. We have a creek bottom that will have the occasional shroom but nothing to get excited about. We have been mulling over the idea to buy some spores online and plant them in the creek bottom. Just wanted to get others opinion on the idea.
I went out hunting for morels for the first time in my life today, down in SE MN. I thought we did pretty good, we ended up right about 9 pounds, most of which came from 2 trees.
I’m fortunate enough to marry into a family that has some land down here in the river valley, it’s beautiful down here. It’s pretty nice when you can walk out the in-laws back door and find morels, hunt deer/turkey, or catch a few brown trout in the creek that runs through their property :).
Do you guys go after any other mushrooms? We kept a couple Oysters we found as well as a Pheasant back. Man, if there’s someone out there that like Pheasant backs we found one elm that had about 15 of them on it, all the size of half a dinner plate.
Mushrooms are about done here, it was a fair to decent year.
Nice when the “Festival” is over. The trespassers can go back to stealing stainless steel, or copper, or barn boards, or whatever else they do until it’s time to trespass for “sang”.
philtickelson when fall comes around maitake mushrooms are my focus. Last year with little effort I gathered 70 pounds of maitake. There great dehydrated. Still have a freezer full of them that should hold out until fall. Can be a pain to clean
when I find a huge cluster, well worth it though.
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