The Peak of the Season

I consider the last week of September to be the peak of the mushroom season here in southwest Pennsylvania. This is when the widest range of mushrooms is mature and when some of the very best species of the season are harvestable. Winter is sparse here, spring offers Morels, Pheasant Back and a few others, […]

Hens in the Woods

In the late fall grasses just behind the Jack o’ Lantern and against a dead tree, there was a gargantuan brown mushroom mass that simply looked like a pile of oak leaves.