The cartoonist, Charles Shultz, may have summed up the the human condition in one comment when he had his character, Charlie Brown, complain: “Everything I do makes me feel guilty!”
When we became mushroom foragers almost 10 years ago, we basically started from scratch, relying heavily on the knowledge and guidance of family and neighbor-friends who collected mushrooms. As our knowledge and experience grew, we continued conferring with those who knew more. Still two critical questions continued to arise:
- Is it better to pick mushrooms whole, or to cut the stems?
- Is it possible to over pick mushroom patches?
Answers to these questions varied, but inevitably, it boiled down to “I don’t know.”
I just found an article that seems to lay both these questions to rest in very satisfying ways.
