The Risk and Reward Behind Finding the Most Interesting Mushrooms in the Woods - Vendors

Dan Lipow is the founder of Foraged Feast, a purveyor of specialty goods, where he and the other “hobbits” forage for mushrooms around the forest, picking chanterelle, shiitake and more. From there, they sell mushrooms and greens to restaurants and individuals alike.
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Credits:
Producer: Carla Francescutti
Directors: Carla Francescutti, Murilo Ferreira
Camera: Murilo Ferreira, Carla Francescutti, Nick Mazzocchi
Editor: Lucy Morales Carlisle
Executive Producer: Stephen Pelletteri
Supervising Producer, Operations: Stefania Orrù
Supervising Producer, Development: Gabriella Lewis
Audience Engagement: Avery Dalal
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[@eater]

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[@Giveme100ksubs]

​@@Michael_556.Nobody wants you

[@1PixelShort]

Got mad respect for people who forage their own produce.

[@jessanpalomer2647]

We have come full circle now

[@klm20079]

sad people losing it

[@caitlin9411]

So knowledgeable! Their passion is infectious. They need their own show.

[@_HairyChihuahua]

I like they call themselves Hobbits. It just fits so perfectly! 😌

[@spanqueluv9er]

@_HairyChihuahua No, it doesn’t.🤦‍♂️

[@axvob]

My mother got me into foraging and I love it. It's exiciting, relaxing and really clears the mind from all the everyday stress (as a "casual" forager). Walking around in beautiful forests, enjoying nature and breathing fresh air is really special. I really recommend trying it, but as mentioned in the video, it is very important to not pick or eat anything you are not completely sure of. Much love from Sweden!

[@ElliottRodgers]

Epic video! Admire anyone who forages like these guys. I used to do tiny amounts of foraging when still had two legs.

[@myceliation]

Me too man. Diabeetus also took my nose and one of my eyes

[@ElliottRodgers]

@@myceliation bad fall f--ked up my left ankle. Despite surgeries ended up with amputation.

[@gracebarkho1797]

This is so incredibly awesome!! Congrats to the Foraged Feast!! I’ve purchased their foraged mushrooms at a local farmers market and I’ve learned and tried new varieties because of them!! So delicious!!

[@jimcooper1251]

- "A shortcut? To where?" - "Mushrooms!"

[@tastybits2228]

I’ve been foraging with dan in jersey! He was so informative & we found at least 20 varieties of mushrooms.

[@eater]

What an amazing opportunity!

[@Marquito614]

Great video! I go to their stand at my local farmers market and just picked up some matsutake from the last weekend. Passionate folks at their craft

[@sonnyv6888]

Love it. Would like spend just a few hours learning from this guys about foraging!

[@faisalshahajat2872]

Wish there exists a mushroom exploration and popularization club in every places in the world wherever they are available!

[@fearthehoneybadger]

Not a game for amateurs. There are incredibly deadly mushrooms out there: some of them resemble edible ones.

[@adityautomo7405]

After watching Into The Wild, i can totally agree with you!

[@francesco5491]

All mushrooms are edible. Some of them just once.

[@NOTAGOVTAGENT]

​@@adityautomo7405 He died from poisonous plants not mushrooms.

[@myceliation]

There are many easy edibles. Learn the fearless four and chanterelles

[@elsiesmith1771]

This was fascinating. Thank you!

[@Bunbun10379]

love their passion! thanks for the video!

[@onemightymill]

Love the focus on finding nutrient rich food!! Definitely curious about foraging. This was so interesting!

[@hip5702]

Some seriously cool dudes. Love it.

[@moos5221]

I loved every part of this!

[@northernwildharvest]

Gotta love it! Excellent video

[@brianmoody2549]

Learning how the food of the outdoors grow like mushrooms all the different types and sizes and flavors they have, and how you can understand why mushrooms bring a lot of fresh flavor to your meal.

[@gokalpbayramli]

how cool is that! Respect!

[@TheGrace020]

Amazing fellas :D

[@richielew261997]

Great video. Loved it

[@francesco5491]

All mushrooms are edible. Some of them just once.

[@mushroomshunt]

Just WOW!

[@NatureIntoAction]

Superb content

[@gab.lab.martins]

Wild mushrooms are so much more delicious than cultivated ones. It’s one of those ingredients that are *actually* worth the extra money, it’s not a gimmick or marketing; if you can get it, get it. Death trumpets, giroles, morels, and of course truffles.

[@willcookmakeup]

So so cool. I really want to get into foraging. Just need to find someone who knows what they're doing to go with a few times until I feel like I know more about which onces can kill me hahA

[@TasteLike16]

I love their Job 😢..

[@LeneMulan-jt2dc]

How can i buy some where you located

[@mrs_Mccoy]

I got some medicinal mushrooms from an online store

[@mrs_Mccoy]

from tripwith_jeff

[@mrs_Mccoy]

in instagram

[@andrewlovering7404]

The Foraged Feast website has all the Farmers markets and an online store will be up and running soon for shipping outside of NJ. Otherwise reach out and see about meeting us at a market.

[@adityaprakasa3554]

That Line ‘ before the fire come to the forest tho ‘ 😅

[@ballistic350]

Wi has plenty also... imo morels and hen of the woods best eating, I forge ferns and Solomon seals also..

[@LamperougLelouch]

I ate some shrooms in forest once and then i went to another planet, so i dont eat them now

[@myamikolo5547]

how do you know or where do you learn mushroom identification? or any edible foraged plant?

[@andrewlovering7404]

It depends on region. There are fantastic guides out for wherever you live I am sure. Samuel Thayer, Michael Kuo, and David Arora are 3 of my favorite resources for general help in the US.

[@DonJuanMair]

That pizza looked amazing!

[@DonJuanMair]

@@Sabastin-ye8lv wait, so there is a way?

[@NatureIntoAction]

This guy forages hard, just look at the size of his forearms.

[@alexb859]

Awesome video!!! Also I subbed :) I also have a request, can you do a turducken but with a Cow Sheep and Chicken plz?

[@barbarayhivjaneahl3198]

I love mushrooms!! I wish I could get into forging

[@marcfasten3895]

Chanterelles are effing delicious! Especially with stewed Rabbit…

[@NOTAGOVTAGENT]

No matter how many videos yeti sponsors im still not buying a $500 plastic cooler...

[@WhatWouldVillainsDo]

I myself mushroom hunt saffron milk caps and boletus mushrooms, both are very easy to identify. Milk caps have none that are poisonous, but can be very unpleasant like hotter than a pepper. Some are so hot they feel like they could stop your breathing but won't kill you just very unpleasant. Boletus are very easy to identify as they do not have normal gills but network of pores and once again only one is toxic but not deadly.

[@marionkelley8448]

hello where do you find those mushrooms i am in upstate ny

[@marionkelley8448]

?@Humpuca4oninstagramDelivers

[@Bala.the.Baldie]

I wanna be with them and learn about mushrooms enjoy life it's soo tasty and dangerous at the same soo fascinating

[@ArvySan]

Why is it so long to make them? Is it because of the hot weather there? Here in Asia it doesn't take that long

[@TheSmartestManonEarth]

Well, good for him. Let me get some of that energy.

[@meganmclaughlin9056]

So way to go man ,me and my wife run a commercial mushroom business in the northwest. Where are you located. Our business is called Cascade wild mushrooms and more llc.we pick morels, lobsters, kings, chanterelles honey mushrooms matsatake.picked 500 lbs of burn morels this season. Found a nice king spot and got 100 lbs last week.

[@CptShiba]

do you ever look for the oregon black truffles?

[@meganmclaughlin9056]

@@CptShiba where are you located, east coast.

[@meganmclaughlin9056]

@@CptShiba the price of burn morels is going to be so low next year because all those fires in Canada

[@meganmclaughlin9056]

I work with ..foods in season...alot.i coordinate with alot of pickers and buyers.

[@andrewlovering7404]

Northern New Jersey, so a bit far unfortunately.

[@lilbpack1]

honey!! - Lil B

[@rastachech1375]

Those baskets u carry don´t look very porous to me. What materials are they made of? Cuz that fabric doesn´t look like it lets the spores pass thru.

[@myceliation]

This is a myth, spores are very small, and because they leave the mycelium it will return year after year

[@andrewlovering7404]

Spores are very light and will disperse from all directions as well. Gravity is not the factor pulling them exclusively downward.

[@blamb9977]

Very interested in this new series!

[@misanthropicsophist]

damn that mushroom pizza looked like a 10/10

[@humanwreckage4563]

dudes rock

[@autumngalix4616]

Bigfoot Seekers: "I mean, who would be this far out into the forest? Let alone making odd noises?" Mushroom Foragers: "YIP" I think about this every time a Bigfoot searcher says something along the lines of that. They have no idea lol.

[@paquilo99]

Los hongos jamás deben ser recolectados con cestos de lona o plástico. Se llevan en cestos de materiales naturales para favorecer la expansión de esporas mientras se recogen.

[@jeffcenoura]

Strokes plant… “This is a stinging nettle.” LoL

[@denystang2371]

Amazing loved the video, cringe yeti product placement as always jaja but I get it

[@aaronreid903]

I wonder what they done with the one that stained blue ? 😎

[@Iam_Dunn]

It was a truly magical scene. 😂

[@HamoftheWoods]

Not magical. Just groovy

[@DZY49er]

This is dope I love mushrooms never knew the actual science behind it but I would love to learn more especially being from the west coast Vancouver B.C. To be exact 👍

[@MrOtis1956]

You need to give the Gomer Pyle call. Hootie hoot, hootie hoot....

[@plingela276]

Желаю тебе 100000 подписчиков

[@sorscha]

TIL another name for death cap mushrooms is destroying angel mushrooms. Awesome video.

[@benjaminhasselberg1329]

No, they are two different species. Both are deadly.

[@sorscha]

@@benjaminhasselberg1329 thanks for the info! They are apparently closely related. There was a dinner party "incident" in Australia a few months ago where four people were poisoned by suspected death cap. The progression of symptoms outlined on this video is identical to what death caps do. Scary little aliens!

[@uffo200]

@@benjaminhasselberg1329 Agree, amanita phaloides is the death cap and amanita virosa is the destroying angel. Both amanitas but different species.

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[@MrGageHarrison]

Looked like Jeff Goldblum from the thumbnail

[@brodericklancaster7237]

Do you all sell them?

[@andrewlovering7404]

Yes! The Foraged Feast is located in northern New Jersey and sells both cultivated and wild foraged greens and mushrooms at a variety of Farmers markets listed on our website.

[@matthewdurland9898]

Some pretty major Pedro Pascal vibes from this man

[@HZanimations]

Man...if Last of Us scenario will ever happen this man better hide as good as he can cause they will be after him. I bet mushrooms will do that just to hunt this man down. 😂

[@benjaminhasselberg1329]

Great video. Love his enthusiasm! There are some inaccuracies though. 1. He points out what he thinks to be destroying angels, but it's not possible to confirm that they are from the video alone. The ones in the video look more like an agaricus species. 2. Mushrooms don't have high protein content. It is beneficial to eat mushrooms for their nutritional content (some can have high vitamin D content for example) and while some nutrients are only found in mushrooms (myconutrients), you definitely won't be eating mushrooms for their high protein content. Also an fyi: he chews on some of the wild mushrooms, but hopefully he spits them out after. This can be done to correctly ID species, but you should never eat raw mushrooms. They should always be cooked. Happy hunting :)

[@myceliation]

A small taste of a wild mushroom you know wont hurt you and mushrooms have from 2-24 g protein / 100 g which is pretty high for essentially 70-90% water

[@benjaminhasselberg1329]

Repeated ingestion of raw mushrooms lead to the accumulation of damaging compounds in the body. A couple years ago this wasn't clear but now we have enough scientific evidence to basically say that it's not recommended at all. @@myceliation

[@jonathanfellus7998]

Look up the protein content of hedgehog mushrooms (hydnum repandum)

[@newwave233]

Taught his kids how to swim!

[@nickkinney4942]

Lilacs are poisonous I thought

[@jobberwalkx105]

How can they know its poisonois ur not?

[@Iam_Dunn]

If you eat one and die, it’s poisonous. :)

[@BruinsPastaSauce]

i would love to see a dog breed play into this.. imaging how well they could do. maybe someone already is but I don't know of anyone doing it.

[@pamelanadel3787]

Well, I think when you come upon a Destroying Angel, you do the boot and squish move.

[@meganmclaughlin9056]

I would describe water cress more like mustard or radish flavor.

[@myceliation]

Arugula is a mustard family plant

[@meganmclaughlin9056]

@myceliation water cress tastes alot like arugula. I pick water cress ,and grow arugula.

[@meganmclaughlin9056]

Thanks for not using latin names,thats how i can tell you actually know what your talking about. People who use latin names usually have no mushroom picking experiences foreging .good video on mushrooms, rare to find.

[@Kevan808]

So basically these guys are real life hobbits.

[@misanthropicsophist]

in germany there is still a lot of risk in foraging because of the chernobyle fallout

[@jalexander305]

Phil Jackson and his mushrooms

[@howdyags5149]

Grandfada say: you pick wrong mushroom, you no wake up next morning. 👴

[@Frondlock]

Foraging should be reserved for personal use. In some areas in EU, there is hundreds of workers coming from other countries even that come to """forage""" all the produce in the woods. Local people can't access these then. And then supermarkets or restaurants re-sell those mushrooms, berries etc at a high price. fak this. Hobbits would not build a business out of exploiting wild produce like that. Foraging to innoculate and cultivate on your own land, why not. In all cases: respect for the knowledge and skill.

[@grant1133]

Is it really foraging? The first quarter of the video is farming.

[@drerod8543]

Simulated foraging lol

[@SoulofAlice]

Well i'm not a Chef but if you sold/shipped to individuals, i'm already in!😅 It just occurred to me that those regularly foraging fungi have a front row seat to environmental effects on the earth and its growing things.

[@chucksmith9772]

Rad

[@MDorleans]

All for the foraging and sustainable living, but why are they pushing all of this coming against factory farming while all of them are fat🤷🏻‍♂️

[@user-tw2xg1oh9f]

W mushrooms

[@TheDavidoff74]

Thumbnail reminds me of a clicker

[@adriantheabstract]

I wish i had time to wonder in the forest looking for mushrooms and gum drop houses but my kids love hot water and the internet

[@NatureIntoAction]

You can buy them from him at the market.

[@adriantheabstract]

@@NatureIntoAction but that defeats the purpose of foraging

[@terryhsiao1745]

Ok listen MUSHROOMS are not nutritious in the sense of protein or carbohydrate or anything ..Do they taste amazing and have great fibers and are healthy. absolutely !!! but they are not nutritious.

[@myceliation]

我知道你妈妈住在哪里。 她很有营养

[@bruceoutwater]

💩

[@andriyderkach616]

One message is lost here. No mushroom is worth your health! You have to follow three rules: 1)There are many more poisonous mushrooms that can kill you in three days. Many of them look very close to edible mushrooms. Not 100% sure, new to the game do not take there are plenty of other mushrooms. 2) When I was watching episode, I cringed a little. Three people gathering mushrooms in short in the places with dense grassy vegetation and forests with mosquitoes. It is recipe for getting tick on you! Protect your self from ticks (and mosquitoes) 3) Mushrooms are full on nutrients and minerals because they absorb EVERYTHING around them. Thus, do not collect mushrooms in the cities, especially places where herbicides/pesticides or fertilizers was used.

[@richardg8651]

All reasonable points . There are lots of high end restaurant that buy from foragers . Perhaps it's wiser to stick with farmed not foraged fungi .

[@myceliation]

All the ticks and most mosquitoes are done in the us

[@salsinatorsalsa]

apprx 14,000 species of mushrooms have been described. Plants? there are about 380,000 known species lol

[@myceliation]

The thing with fungi is that there are likely exponentially more species our there but theyre so hard to pin down taxonomically. Additionally plants are essentially abstracted fungi due to endophytes which make up all their secondary metabolites

[@Andreee73]

Dear friends, if you really love mushrooms and take care of them, you should know that they must not be harvested cutting the base with a knife, because what remains will develop rottenness that will damage the micelio in the ground. Mushrooms must be taken by the base and rotated until they come out. As you (only) did with the big porcino. More than this, the best way to bring them home is using a wicker basket, so the spores can fall to the ground and give birth to other mushrooms. I saw many mistakes you should avoid.

[@AhmadIzzJ]

Yeah screw his yeti bag, get a wicker basket or netted bag. All that talk about mushroom spore reproduction then just not give them a chance to reproduce.

[@HamoftheWoods]

So what happens to a mushroom that nobody forages when it inevitably decays? Does every mushroom hurt its own mycelial network by going through its natural life cycle?

[@myceliation]

The spores dont need a wicker basket that is a myth, and mycelium is very resilient

[@boaecho]

@@myceliation How is it a myth? Spores falling through the gaps increasing the chance of propagation.

[@jacoballey21]

technically meat is the most nutrient dense food you can eat (but don't tell vegans that)

[@tob187sr]

I like meat ….

[@Chris-qk8uz]

“That is in really good shape” half eaten by bugs and probably full of maggots lol

[@jjvmtraveler1160]

Me: after watching THE LAST OF US

[@minecrafttimfun]

U shouldn't show them eating raw mushroom they just picked without a disclaimer to not do this with 99% of mushrooms because the are almost all toxic if not cooked properly, people might get ideas if they see something like that

[@dcfromthev]

Commercial wild foraging really bums me out. Capitalism knows no bounds.

[@TreeFrig]

Saprophytic does not mean that it’s working on killing the tree. It means it is decomposing a tree that is very weak or already dead, and that is a big difference when you categorize the ecological roles of funga. It also makes absolutely no sense to talk about animals and funga as close cousin. That’s simply ridiculous. It’s nice to watch people getting more in touch with nature and sharing their enthusiasm for foraging, but it’s not cool to blurt out scientific-sounding BS. For the love of science and mushroom foragers worldwide, please stop doing that.

[@perschondelmeier3046]

Why does he say mushrooms have great protein content?, it has little to no protein, max 3.1g pr 100g.

[@nickmcintyre2060]

Lol I was gonna say the same thing: they definitely have great mineral and micronutrient content but the rest chitin.

[@andrewlovering7404]

Which mushroom?

[@myceliation]

Perschondelmeier

[@perschondelmeier3046]

@@myceliation That is my name, yes.

[@the0neskater]

Why don't they just farm these without raiding the forest? Could probably mass farm them using the methods they showed at the beginning but maybe indoors to better control the environment?

[@myceliation]

Not all.can be farmed

[@VinegarAndSaltedFries]

Didn’t discuss any sort of sustainable practices like leaving a decent amount so that for years in the future the mushrooms can be found again. Not talking about that makes me think this is strictly pillage the land of all potential profits. Which is gross.