473lbs of Wild Morels in a Day | Drying Mushrooms

(2022 Morels episode 16)
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In this episode we have a huge harvest of natural morels but they are reaching the end of their growth cycle in many parts of the burn. In the areas that started first we begin to see large, perfect quality blonde fire morels!
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00:00 Highlight intro
00:25 Day 29 Heading to the patch
00:50 Harvest 1
5:43 Lunch break
6:24 Big blondies
7:49 Daily weigh in
8:34 Day 30 Harvest 2
11:04 Drying mushrooms

[@nealvaughn2340]

Beginning to agree with the other commenters on the sound of cutting a morel…. It’s amazing 😂 And the slow-mo tooth’s just enhances the experience lol

[@pachiratiny]

I love that squeaky noise that sometimes happens when you cut the stem. Sooo satisfying

[@Orangepressure]

As a french morel picker, i can't even breath seeing that amount of mushrooms x)

[@canadiangemstones7636]

Amazing harvest!

[@delight93]

For real: for that amount of morels, I would spend years collecting them in Germany. Absolutely satisfying

[@carldude911]

Beautiful. Thank you for the new video :)

[@sustainableforager1629]

absolute legends

[@randym8963]

Just like you buddy! Hope you load up this year.

[@bonnerdebbie]

Great haul and beautiful blonde fire morels!!

[@northernwildharvest]

Lots of morels like those to come! :)

[@randym8963]

Lets get em!

[@edwardleroy8435]

Delightful and F.J.B 😮

[@Brent6437]

100%

[@NB.867.]

Seriously I am a born NYorker and I love your videos!! I truly hope one day soon I got my own place upstate so I can do what you guys do. F-ing love it!!! Keep rocking and thank you for the knowledge!!!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻. Greatly appreciated fellas

[@northernwildharvest]

Hey thank you very much! Glad you’re enjoying it. Upstate new york is very nice, I’ve spent some time there, good luck with your goal 👍. We’ve got more coming, this season is going to be an adventurous one!

[@bean560]

truly great job assembling such a great team and working out all the logistics .thats the biggest hurdle .im out on my own picking similar hauls but down in the rocky mtns i dont have the grizzlies to worry about.can i ask if your workmates where picking morels before you joined or did you get them involved? its about my favorite way to enjoy nature but its hard to ask someone to join that isnt already infected with the passion lol given all the work, danger,and slowing me down dramatically.yall are tough and badass workers i know how much work that is but also how good the feeling from that haul!

[@bean560]

also have you considered a mule or a pack goat? if im no closer to helping hands in the future i want to try that

[@northernwildharvest]

Hey thanks for the comment. Randy has been picking burns for about 35 years, myself and two of the other for about 10 years. Before that it was picking Chanterelles and Pines since about 5 years old - once you get that buzz from a good harvest it gets in you. Everyone works really hard so we just share our volume evenly which allows us to cover the ground more thoroughly, grateful to these guys for putting in equal effort.

[@wilfred8686]

Where do you get the large stackable plastic baskets to help in transport?

[@johnnyfish6051]

If your gona work hard what a better way to do than this. Fascinating!

[@northernwildharvest]

Morel fever kicks in and we can't stop if we try! Then we get back to camp and realize we did thousands of squats and hover around the dutch oven waiting for food.

[@proy2241]

Omg!!!!!

[@joet81]

Damn bro it would really suck to find a giant patch of morels that have gone bad. I hate it when I don't get to a couple in time LOL

[@northernwildharvest]

Yeah for sure!

[@randym8963]

Heh Joe, Only approximately 10% of morels get picked on forest fire burn sites. Many are too far or too hard to get at. Morels will often flush until freeze up but not at the scale of the spring flush. We try to get them when they are in prime condition. Sometimes, when you struggle to find enough to make it worthwhile and you find these blown out flushes, it really does irk you. We understand this is also how spore and the resulting propagation help this part of the life cycle of the organism. This year, we never seen even one other harvester in this piece if wilderness. We pretty much loaded up every day so we were not too irked 😊 Hope you find your own motherlode this season.

[@ralphhines7096]

Harvey those blonds dibble walled and greys Triple walled

[@Brent6437]

This is ridiculous. I’m Fortunate to find one and you guys have them all over the place. That’s not fair.

[@northernwildharvest]

You will find more! Keep looking! What this video doesn’t show is the 100 hours of satellite, canopy, burn density mapping and many long walks we did before finding this patch. Plus we had perfect weather that year! It was hard earned but we made the most of it.

[@Brent6437]

@@northernwildharvest thanks for the info brother. That’s special that you take the kids out. Good job brother

[@AdrenalineRushAdventures]

Amazing! Wow! I thought 70 pounds in a day was good. That’s my record in Oklahoma!

[@northernwildharvest]

There's five of us harvesting. 70lbs is an awesome day, the buzz after a good harvest like that is priceless! Thanks for checking it out, appreciate it.

[@bean560]

these are burn morels picking 70 lbs in a day is a big deal but to compare them with natural yellows down in Oklahoma is far off. i pick 10x more morels in burns on average than i did back in the midwest. Both deliver the same glory in my opinion 10 lbs of naturals or 100 lbs of burn morels

[@1div2agent74]

Dude I been mushroom hunting for 30 years and haven't even gotten 70lbs total. So frustrating

[@lexieoliver2975]

I can only hope I'll this lucky in Utah in a month or so. It snowed again tonight 😭

[@northernwildharvest]

Hi Lexie, fingers crossed for you! This was last season, the spot we're harvesting in this video is probably under multiple feet of snow right now. We know how you feel having to wait!

[@billyrhea3057]

Are the fire morels drier? They sound like it hitting the bucket. I wish I had mushrooms like that.

[@northernwildharvest]

Most of what we’re harvesting are technically fire morels but the ones we’re calling fire morels in this video are a rare species that are quite distinct that other non-burn burn morels. They aren’t drier but they are often double or triple walled so they are usually heftier than the early burn morels, which tend to be similar to true naturals from a harvesting and consumption point of view.

[@WillieMakeit]

wow

[@FlyWhistle]

At 3:05 are those all previously cut stems?

[@northernwildharvest]

No, those are a different type of cup fungi called Geopyxis carbonaria. We call them fire cups, also sometimes called pyxie cups. They often indicate wet areas in burn sites so they can sometimes be an indicator for morels.

[@zachshefelbine2299]

What brand of pruners do you prefer?

[@northernwildharvest]

For mushrooms an inexpensive pair works fine but for actual pruning I use Felco brand.

[@brandonscott2091]

what's the main reason for leaving the stems behind?

[@northernwildharvest]

Commercial standard on burns here. Some of the main reasons are to help reduce debris and insect contamination. Also helps to have shorter stems when drying.

[@lynnmcinnes9810]

How many hours to dry a batch?

[@northernwildharvest]

Depends on how wet they are when we pick them and the weather. If it's dry and sunny and the mushrooms aren't soaked, as little as 6 hours but we generally say less than 24 to account for variables.

[@benmamanyeemud1566]

👍👍👍🧒🧒🧒🙏🇨🇷🙋‍♀️

[@FungalForager]

what part of the world is this?

[@northernwildharvest]

Canada. Way in the bush!

[@FungalForager]

@@northernwildharvest awesome! mush love from alberta! 🇨🇦

[@1div2agent74]

Never in my life seen mushrooms grown like that. Weird

[@northernwildharvest]

It was a particularly abundant patch and we were the only ones harvesting there because it was quite remote!

[@ralphhines7096]

What no greens or pickles

[@northernwildharvest]

Only a few on this fire! Not many

[@horatiohuffnagel7978]

Do they just go to forest fire places the next year and dominate or is this some system they have.?

[@northernwildharvest]

We are harvesting in the previous years fire but a lot goes into where we choose to harvest. Last season was particularly good, but 95% of the burn or more, was not producing this abundantly. Plant science, soil science, decades of experience and a lot of luck with the weather.

[@horatiohuffnagel7978]

@@northernwildharvest So it's ok to burn sections of forest down to do commercial mushroom farming? Ive never heard of it.

[@northernwildharvest]

@@horatiohuffnagel7978 oh no definitely not!!! We are harvesting on wildfires, most of which are lightning caused. Tragically our friends ranch burned in this fire. This area has been having wildfire issues for the last decade because of an increase in summer drought.