There are certain times of the year that I strongly believe in multitasking. There are still mushrooms up and growing. Among those that I have seen are stump...
... The last fresh hen I found was 2 weeks ago. I was out today and saw some pholiotas and galerinas. I also saw some pear-shaped puffballs but they were a bit...
I did a little multitasking today. I was doing a little garden clean up and planting some garlic. A little late for garlic, but it was a nice day. I checked...
If anyone plans to be in Toronto on November 21, John III has been hired to present the program at the Mycological Society of Toronto's meeting. If anyone...
hi kim, im a newbie. when is it too late to hunt? i live in philadelphia. i was out in the park today... nothing:( jared ... __________________________________...
Chroogomphus, maybe vinicolor. C. rutilus is very similar and they can be seperated with a microsope. C. vinicolor has thicker walled cystidia. I will add a...
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Just a reminder of the club's monthly meeting on November 15th at 7PM at Beechwood Farms Nature Center on Dorseyville Road. Two interesting topics for this...
I saw a dozen or so beautiful horse mushrooms on the way home from work today in somebody's front yard. Man, I really wanted them but they are along a well...
I was in south easter Westmoreland County today and ran across a number of patches of Aminita muscaria var. formosa. The ones I found seemed to have larger...
I'll tell you where some horse mushrooms are if you want to do a driveby! ... From: "sable_bp" <sable_bp@...> To: <wpamushroomclub@yahoogroups.com> Sent:...
I hardly ever hunt Westmoreland County where I live. For years I hunted the Hartwood, North Park, Bedford, Somerset and other areas. Many people from the...
Hi John, ... Check out what I found today! Found this on a reliable hen tree not far from my house. It's a bit late in the season but "better late than never"....
Hello, Below is the winners list from the photo contest. The slides and digital entries were judged buy Robert Boice. Before I droped off the photos to him to...
Many times when guys are out buck hunting in the first two weeks of December they run into wild mushrooms. Sometimes they find sheephead, but many times they...
... I found a snack-sized hen yesterday but it was about a week too old. It was buried under leaves that had accumulated in a fold at the base of an oak tree....
This is one of the great things about this web group. Just when I was about to pack it all in for the year, people report their findings. Thank you for the...
Heard on NPR this morning that President Bush is in South Korea for the APEC conference. There will be a formal dinner in which traditional Korean cuisine will...
Hi Jim, They are flavoring the wine and/or hard spirits like vodka, not making it from mushrooms. The lack of sugars in the shrooms preclude that. Billy "C....
... I did a quick search on winemaking as I wrote my previous post and found that they make wine from all kinds of things including berries, fruits, and even...
Hi Jim, Yeast+sugar=alcohol.( acetic acid, if one forgets to put the cork in the fermentation jug) Everything else is flavoring. "Wine" is defined by how much...
Hello, I've been lurking on this list for quite a while. I found the post on mushroom wine quite interesting. The mushrooms (just like various fruits, berries,...
Hey you mushroom winos. You can make a fine wine from refined sugar, packaged yeast and water. The wine will taste somewhat like an old, funky, weak vodka and...