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RE: Mushroom Hunting Great Success
Wow, $250 USD / lb? I've never heard of these before - nice forage bounty!
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Wow, $250 USD / lb? I've never heard of these before - nice forage bounty!
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The prices vary, and since the gangs have really increased commercial harvest, the prices have plunged of late. This may presage increasing disinterest by such profit focused parties going forward, at least that's my hope. I rarely sell mushrooms, but eat all I can, preserving many for when they aren't in season, and give a lot away.
To harvest them commercially, there's a bunch of paperwork and regulations that do not apply to individuals foraging for personal use, which is fine with me as I am not particularly interested in managing quantities of money that attract larcenous avarice. My quality of life has increased dramatically since I have discovered how to manage my affairs with very little money.
Barter is untaxable, and most people don't realize how much of their life is drained away by taxes alone. Up to half your work is caused by taxation if you use money as the primary means of trading for the goods and services necessary. As decentralization burgeons, I expect more and more folks to discover that less and less of the things they require need to be bought with money, and also how that dramatically improves their quality of life.
Mushroom sales are taxable. I'm not picking mushrooms so I can pay for the murder of brown people all over the world. I sleep a lot better at night avoiding such liabilities.
Very nice - we don't forage for money either, but I honestly can't think of anything in this area that has so much value at market. Morels typically sell well at farmer's markets, but we eat everything we find too. Foraging is a wonderful thing.
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There are various medicinal crops domestic and wild that actually are worth more per pound, and vastly more in the broader economy, such as cannabis. Although, the price has dropped so much since legalization I'm not sure cannabis much exceeds that dollar value per pound anymore =)
Wild seeds necessary to reclamation projects can be worth more per pound, particularly in the Great Basin. You might be surprised that porcupine quills are worth ~$10/oz, and Bobcat hides ~$400 each. Products used by florists, such as fern and Salal fronds, moss, and 'Old Man's Beard' lichen are all more valuable as products to the economy than Mastutakes, if not per pound.
Also, since the gangs have greatly increased the supply of Matsutakes, they have also hugely crashed the price. I have heard of gluts causing the price to drop to as low as $5/lb. Supply and demand.