I’ve been snooping around a particular patch near home lately. It’s time to forage fireweed shoots, which you may know as willow herb, or blooming Sally. They can be steamed and eaten like asparagus, with a remarkably similar in flavor, with a lemony aftertaste. They’re well along in sunnier spots around Haines but are just appearing in the place we usually harvest them. While looking for fireweed, I found something else, unexpectedly early.
False morels in the sphagnum moss. Note cut mushroom is not hollow all the way through.
