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RE: Follow Friday - 7 Steemit members who could use a warm welcome
@valth has made some nice posts on mushrooms -- reviewing some poisonous ones. And then looking more closely at the Russula group - edible and not. He speaks from experience in spending time with the fungi. : )
I'm definitely a fungi-lovin' girl but would never pick mushrooms in the wild. I kind of like life. lol
He definitely has some valuable information for foragers.
That's why I eat wild mushrooms - I love life! Of course, I only eat the edible ones - it helps me pay attention to details, lol.
A lot of people are really afraid to pick their first mushrooms, so I can't say I blame you. I was also scared the first time I started foraging my own mushrooms and serve them to my family, but we are all alive and well ;)
Anyway, I am actually planning on writing a Beginner guide type of post in regards to mushroom, where I want to share a few species that are easy to identify, are good and taste, and are very different from any dangerous mushrooms, so that no one will mix anything up. However, it turned out to be a little more difficult than I planned because I have to take into account that there are different mushrooms all around the world. So if I recommend a certain species for Europe and says that its impossible to mix up with anything dangerous, that might not be true for Asia or even America. So I really need to be careful and do a lot of research for this type of post.
That's an issue, for sure! Each region has mushrooms that are pretty unmistakable -- if people are paying attention. It's that "paying attention" part that seems to be the hardest for people to deal with, lol.
Thanks for the kind words. More mushroom posts are coming in the near future :)
You're welcome. I really like seeing the mushrooms that people are finding in different parts of the world. The Eastern Europeans seem to appreciate their wild edible mushrooms very well. I've sure seen a lot of them harvested this fall here on Steemit. It's been great!
I think it is a pretty common tradition in Eastern Europe. Here in Norway we get some collectors that travel all the way from Poland and Lithuania to collect and sell mushrooms here. On one hand that is great, but it is also a bit sad that most people would rater pay others to collect the mushrooms for them, instead of learning enough to be able to do it themselves.
I agree -- it would be nice for people to learn their mushrooms well enough to forage for themselves. I think their mushroom recipes would taste better, too, when they harvest the fungus themselves. : )