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Lovely, dark and deep

….the woods are lovely, dark and deep but I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep and miles to go before I sleep *Robert Frost* Picture taken at the Ancient Forest, British Columbia

Weekly Photo Challenge: Beloved *** Fungi and Fun guys

Moments with my family, my ‘fun guys’, are my most beloved moments. If those moments involve ‘fungi’, all the better!

I’d Tap That…Birch Tapping 101

By: Moose, Mushrooms and Mud April 4, 2017April 4, 2017

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That Birch is beautiful. It’s 50 feet tall and its trunk is eight inches in diameter. The sun shines softly on one face of the tree, illuminating the creamy, papery bark. Bits of greenish-grey lichen cling to the lower part of the tree. Short, soft moss carpets the base of the tree and extends outwards…

Collecting Chaga with an untested forager

By: Moose, Mushrooms and Mud April 3, 2017April 4, 2017

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It’s Chaga hunting day! Karoline arrives at my door with her backpack in hand. I look down at her feet and notice she is wearing ankle high hiking boots. Not quite the boots I was hoping she would be wearing. She will soon learn when I say wear your boots, it means up to the…

Patience. Got to have patience.

By: Moose, Mushrooms and Mud March 29, 2017April 4, 2017

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I know it’s there. It’s lingering, just beneath the snow: dormant life. I am waiting for the warmth of spring to wake up this sleepy, resting life so I may start my foraging. As I walk down the forest trail I see my foraging spots. Those Red Alder trees will have Oyster Mushrooms. The edge…