How to Hunt for Mushrooms

Think of all the mushrooms you can get.

Mushroom hunting can be a great way to gather food and to get much needed exercise. Mushroom hunting happens after a heavy rain in the spring. It is popular and fun but you must be careful. This is how you start mushroom hunting.

Things You'll Need

• A good walking stick
• Toilet paper
• A map
• A good guidebook on mushrooms

Instructions

1. Find someone who knows about mushrooms. Ask your friends, your relatives, and maybe even your co-workers. If you can, find a mushroom hunting club. If you have someone who knows what he or she is doing, it will make things a lot easier.

2. Find the perfect place to mushroom hunt. I recommend local public woods. Better yet, if you have a friend with a private woods, ask him or her for permission.

3. Do lots of research on local mushrooms. Find an online guide or a book about mushrooms. Some mushrooms would look harmless but they would really be poisonous.

4. Wait until after a rainstorm and go out hunting. Mushrooms sprout up after rain. Make sure that there won't be any more rain during your mushroom hunting day.

5. When you hunt for mushrooms, get a stick. Get a nice sturdy stick that you could either bring with you or pick one up in the woods. A stick is great for lifting leaves to see mushrooms or to steady one self up and down a hill. Never underestimate the power of the stick.

6. Mushrooms come in groups. If you see one mushroom, there's another one close by. So, keep an eye out for mushrooms.

7. Enjoy the mushrooms you find. You can fry them. Put them in noodles. There are all sorts you can do with wild mushrooms.

Tips & Warnings

• Looking for mushrooms requires practice. Your eyes need time to adapt to the woods so don't give up.

• Respect the land. Leave it mostly the way it was before you show up.

• Respect other mushroom hunters. Mushroom hunting is more popular than ever so you will see them.

• Remember, poisonous mushrooms and harmless mushrooms can look alike.

• Use general precaution when you go in the woods.