It was a good day for foraging: 25 pounds of morel mushrooms in BC, 2022. 🍄🤏🪣
Channel: Scott Schiller
Date: 24/06/2022

A few months ago, my brother and I thought we'd try our luck foraging for Morel mushrooms. These are rather prized mushrooms, found largely in the wild - and they typically grow near trees between spring and summer, the season after there has been a forest fire.

With my first outing, my brother and I found a little outcropping with 13 morel mushrooms and we were quite pleased with ourselves. However, we'd seen others bring in quite large hauls - so we figured we were just scratching the surface, and could do better. The key is knowing both where, and *when* to go.

In June, I went out with Paul Moran of Wild Origins - a fifth-generation forager and professional chef - as my guide and host. With his help, I found approximately double the number of morels vs. my own outing, and *in pounds.* Needless to say, I am pretty pleased about that! It helps if you go with someone who knows where the gold is, per se.

We had a fantastic dinner at the camp site that night, including stuffed morels as well as morels in a San Marzano tomato-based sauce. Absolutely fantastic.

My brother couldn't make this trip, so this video is intended in part to rub it in his face. He would have loved every minute of this. Next season, I suppose. ;)