Mushrooms are a big deal here in the Pacific Northwest. With our damp and forested landscape, a vast array of mushrooms grows throughout the region, from the recognizable to the downright odd. The ...

GATHERING MUSHROOMS FOR food and fabric dyes is a Pacific Northwest tradition going back thousands of years, but it’s also a risky venture if gatherers aren’t educated in mushroom identification. A ...

Ah, those mysterious, bulbous bits of fungi that burst unbidden from moist, forested lands, so delectable and yet so potentially dangerous. Finding, identifying, preparing and eating mushrooms are the ...

POTSDAM, Germany — Wolfgang Bivour carefully emptied a basket of freshly collected mushrooms onto a forest floor covered with fallen autumn leaves. Brown-capped porcini and bay boletes lay beside ...