November Chanterelles! Its not too late!

[@lyricwren3021]

The Chantrelles here in central oregon last until february even march sometimes.

[@ajda1947]

This is how I was introduced to mushrooms. I came across a whole field of them, huge ones like in your video. Totaled about 40 pounds. It became my favorite tasting mushroom, froze most of them and learned how to cook them. 30 years later I foraged a large variety of various mushrooms, including a tree boasting a gorgeous cluster of Chicken of the Woods. I moved a small studio apt with very limited freezer space, so I kept some and sold the rest

[@ajda1947]

The next day I went out looking for more, and instead found 3 different clusters of beautiful Hen of the woods totaling 21 pounds. I want back to the Co-op and sold 13 pounds and froze the rest. It’s become a source of income to me as I sold both varieties for $540 (being retired on a fixed income it came in handy for a couple of day hikes in the woods of Vermont.

[@Mythori]

Those Chanterelles are enormous!! I didn't know they could get that big! Amazing :D that's some good eatin'

[@Stand.Your.Ground.]

I grew up hunting morels, boletes, channies, and headge hogs up in central Oregon specifically Mt. Bachelor area! Some of the best memories with my grandparents!

[@kdavis4910]

Honestly, who couldn't like your channel? I'm watching from Maine dude.

[@HeavenlyDunsparce]

Man at times I wish I didn't live In a desert, if I want to go foraging I need to take at least a two hour drive to get to some forest areas .. mushlove for the video and letting me live vicariously through your life

[@miketrush4028]

Really like your channel broski keep it up. Very informative and I love how you can actually share where you are, and the spots you hit. 🔥💯💪🏻💪🏻

[@CascadeBackcountry]

I'm cooking up a load of chanterelles and hedgehogs over a campfire right now! Shrooms are still out there :)

[@lindap9079]

I'd love to see your mother make a Chanterelle Soup tutorial video.

[@jedediah7772]

Wow, that might be the biggest chanterelle I've seen for sure👍

[@topfeedcoco]

Still finding the down here in the Cascades too.

[@samcardens2315]

Pretty sure I know where you’re at in this one too. I was there 2 weeks ago and pulled around 5 lbs of chanterelles…great area! Keep the vids rolling!

[@JDre-ox2hu]

I was planning on going out to check my spots today but assumed after it froze last night any chants would be a little crispy on the edges. You struck gold… literally! 🍄

[@WitchOvTheeWood]

Love your videos, keep it up!

[@KipCasper66]

unreal! I'm in Atlantic Canada and I was also resigned to the thought that Chanty season was over...but now I wonder...

[@kaikelly9797]

Awesome, I gotta get out there!

[@staggsfamily9838]

We love your videos!!

[@jeffreysousa1104]

Ths is encouraging for my hunt tomorrow!

[@pyronymph-868]

What a wonderful find!

[@sokhascott9580]

Uhg! So Jealous! 😩 they have been on my bucket list for so long!

[@eddieMFsauceboy]

Found 5 lbs in Oregon Coastal range yesterday!

[@sarahearnhart7602]

"Gunner the Trail Runner" is always on task! So cool...I still have shaggy manes popping up in my yard. Btw those chanterelles are beautiful.

[@mushroomwonderland1]

He's the best dog! He whines a lot though😂 I'm always having to edit out his crying.

[@mollysmith6055]

What a wonderful, surprise harvest. Thank you for sharing these videos. Even though I'm in Eastern Washington it is still good to see what those beauties look like as you find them. Hopefully next year hubby and I will be able to find some in our woods.

[@mushroomwonderland1]

I hope you do too! Good luck 🍄🍄🍄

[@jasonknight5045]

that big one!! it wasn't a house, it was a city!!

[@matthewbainbridge3319]

Whoa whoa whoa, this isnt just a great channel for the pnw, but also the us west in general. I just realized how many russula xerampolina I see and ignore, will have to check those out more in the rockies. Thanks man!!

[@timmynormand8082]

Awesome bro You are very informative I’m learning a lot watching your channel thank you

[@PostPatriot1978]

Liked! Subbed long ago. Maybe one day Ill run into you out there. But happy hunting either way!

[@naturallynorthwest9748]

Dude, that's the biggest chanterelle I've ever seen! Crazy! I'm still finding chanterelles in my area of western Washington too. Usually, by late buck season they are done...all squishy and limp. But I gathered enough for a meal last weekend.

[@berniegertje5358]

I found chanterelles this weekend too! I didn't realize Zeller's boletes were rare. I feel like I see them really frequently!

[@mushroomwonderland1]

The true Zellers is, but the xerocomellus atropurpureus is extremely common. That's probably what you're finding.

[@nonakind]

Love the "forest flare" after cleaning them up. Lol Wouldn't have it any other way!

[@mushroomwonderland1]

It puts you in touch with mother nature!

[@derekclawson4236]

Very good season for chanterlles here in the Florida panhandle. Lots of rain. The species we have here are usually associated with oaks. It was epic this year. Sad its pretty much done for the year for them here.

[@MaryUstas]

This is so awesome and inspiring! Thank you!

[@MaryUstas]

One ask I would have it share what elevation you are at. thx

[@mushroomwonderland1]

@@MaryUstas I usually do, sorry if I didn't include it in this video. I'm about 200 ft above sea level right near the Puget sound. So I'm not in the mountains or anything.

[@MaryUstas]

@@mushroomwonderland1 Thank you! My options are good then :) thank you!

[@nessao3396]

Found some white Chantels in my neighborhood just the other day pleasant surprise. And I found some more truffles I don't know how I did it because I don't have a truffle dog or a truffle pig I guess I just have a truffle foot.,,,🍄🦃🍄

[@garrettwaiss3525]

Wow. Nice haul! I was out a few days back as well and was just hoping I would find some. Found a decent amount but not the monsters like yours! I went out yesterday with my daughter to walk around town and thought I found some really old mushy boletus edulis maybe?? Brownish tan top with pure white very small pores and white flesh. No staining. The caps were about 7 inches across. Possible? I’d attach a picture if I could.

[@treehuggingbuddhist]

thanks for the videos! yesterday we went looking for matsutake on our property and we’re able to determine that our soil (2nd and old growth forest) is too rich for them. Today we will check our chanterelle spots again. they were pretty waterlogged last time we looked but any excuse to get out and explore is fine by me.

[@treehuggingbuddhist]

update…we also found a lot of chanterelles but they weren’t where we normally find them!? Many were waterlogged but huge so I put them on a tray in the oven and cracked the door open so the light was on. They dried up quite nicely and I made a tasty quiche with them. 😋

[@photosbyreneemwilliams6812]

Green with envy! It was 31* last night, but it’s crazy sunny… in western Washington?

[@levimoore7395]

I'm gonna head out over to Port Orchard soon, they don't seem to be on my island.

[@monteyoung7126]

In Ohio we get chanterelles in August. This year they started in July and were done by the end of August. We had a lot of rain and heat this year which changed our normal hunting seasons a bit. We have two patches around shag bark hickories.

[@myenglishlistening]

沙发！！！First viewer here. Feeling blessed!!!! Keep up the good work! I’m about to head to Oregon again to look for mushroom during after thanksgiving. Can’t wait.

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Awesome! Good luck 🍄

[@mikek3741]

Found a bunch of big, white chanterelles in PNW national forest yesterday but they were too soggy and broken

[@alexandremaciel8072]

Great channel ! Thanks a lot

[@starlessmystery6429]

Love your videos!! I’m trying to propagate some chanterelles here in Texas right now. Here it’s in the beginning of our cool season. We almost had a frost the other night. I’m hoping to get them going here. Have never found any out foraging so I don’t really think they are native to here but maybe north Texas. I am near Galveston.

[@mushroomwonderland1]

That's interesting. What kind of species are you trying to grow? They can be extremely difficult to cultivate because they require a mature Conifer tree here in the Northwest to produce any fruit (cantherellus formosus). As far as I know all chanterelles are mycorrhizal, so good luck and let me know how it goes if you get some fruit!

[@starlessmystery6429]

@@mushroomwonderland1 it says cantharellus cibarius on the packaging

[@willong1000]

Hey AAron, have you found many Craterellus tubaeformis yet this year? I only been out a couple times this year and the last outing was three weeks ago. Found some then, but no large flushes yet. How about Hydnum umbilicatum? That is my favorite of the wild mushrooms that I have, so far, tried. I first found the sweet tooth and yellow foot mushrooms, the later in a flush that was virtually carpeting a little swale, when I worked at Fort Lewis almost a dozen years ago. It's a 250-mile round trip from where I am living now; so, I sure hope I can locate Hydnum umbilicatum somewhere on the northern slope of the Olympics.

[@mushroomwonderland1]

I actually have not found too many yellow foot chanterelles yet, or hedgehog for that matter. Those do tend to be later season mushrooms from my experience, and I just think we've had a late year, but I am excited to find some yellowfoot (craterellus tubaeformis)! They are some of my favorites. Pacific Golden chanterelle's (cantherellus formosus) upsets my stomach, but I can eat all the yellow feet I want as they are not even in the same genus.

[@willong1000]

@@mushroomwonderland1 I appreciate the reply Aaron. I've not encountered any Hydnum repandum in my mushroom foraging. However, when I found Hydnum umbilicatum I was working on Fort Lewis and I found them at the same time that Cantharellus formosus was fruiting (Cantharellus subalbidus were already finished in the same general area). The Craterellus tubaeformis definitely came on later there. Cantharellus formosus were nearly finished, just a few mushy one still to be found, when I first located the Craterellus tubaeformis appearing as pins. By late December, there was an incredible flush of them. This was in 2011, the last full year that I worked at Fort Lewis. If you have access to the fort's training areas--recreational access permits were available during the decade that I worked there--I'd be happy to show you where they came in so heavy as it is too far away from Port Angeles for me to justify the drive explicitly to forage for mushroom species that I can, or should be able to, find in abundance over here. If you do encounter any Hydnum repandum, I hope you will post a video as soon as you do. Knowing that they are appearing anywhere in western WA is extra incentive to go look for myself here on the OP. If I understood the location of one of your earlier videos correctly, you have foraged pretty close to Sequim in the past. I'm on the eastern side of Port Angeles. On 29 October, I found a few Craterellus tubaeformis just inside the national park due south of me. I am trying to get out again in the next day or two. If they are coming up strong, I'll give you a head's up.

[@mushroomwonderland1]

@@willong1000 right on man, good looking out. I'm actually in the Port Orchard Bremerton area, do a lot of foraging near seabeck and tahuya State forest. There are spots within a few miles of my house where I have found the forest carpeted with yellowfoot, the last summer they went in thinned out that area with bulldozers and chainsaws, but there's other spots I know of. I rarely find any type of hydnum right around here but if I do I'll definitely put them in a video!

[@willong1000]

@@mushroomwonderland1 Sounds good; I'll keep my eyes peeled and my fingers crossed! I'm pretty much catching all your videos as soon as they are posted.

[@WitchOvTheeWood]

Re: the rosecomb mutation - my thought with this is that Oregon and Washington both have long histories with the lumber industry - at about 12:20 in your video I see you are walking by a large fallen tree that was clearly cut by a chainsaw - my mind always goes to this when I find rosecomb in areas deep in the woods. Just a thought!

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Good point.. It would have been a Long time ago that oil got spilled there but it is a possibility!

[@benjaminlaster3773]

You're making me jealous. I was surprised to find a few Dentinums in NW Montana a few days ago. Typically the only fungi of interest i have any hope of finding this late in the season are Hericiums.

[@mushroomwonderland1]

That is still one on my bucket list of mushrooms to find, they're very rare here on the western side of Washington.

[@karenbergmann209]

Amazing!

[@valiasafrigina2391]

спасибо за прекрасную прогулку! я живу в Западном Голливуде и не знаю ни одного грибного леса поблизости! Если вы знаете какое то место поблизости, в пределах 2-3 х часов на машине, то я буду вам очень благодарна!

[@2Lilla]

Great mushrooms

[@chaseharmony9172]

Those are huge 😳

[@eriatarka209]

Pulled 50 lbs Thursday

[@patrickguitar8676]

Nice!

[@Bennim]

The first Chanterelle I've ever found was a giant white chanterelle about a week ago. Unfortunately I couldn't take it home because my brown paper bag got soaked and melted.

[@mushroomwonderland1]

That sucks. A basket works pretty good, or a waxed paper bag. I usually collect in my paper bag and then put it inside my backpack. Sometimes I just line the inside of the backpack with the paper bag so I don't have that problem. But I have ran into that!

[@danalasswell8248]

@@mushroomwonderland1 We discovered mesh produce bags with drawstrings work awesome! Shove a mess in our pockets and then put them into our backpacks when filled! Easy peasy to wash. LOVE your videos! 2 years of foraging for us and you've been an inspiration! Thx

[@mushroomwonderland1]

@@danalasswell8248 awesome, yeah those do work pretty good. We made a fun video last summer about what to collect wild mushrooms in, I don't necessarily agree with everything I said, because I'm always switching it up with different containers, but it is by far the funniest video I ever made point check it out. I give my opinion on mesh bags

[@futures003]

Can you still forage in december and jan? I'm from western WA also.

[@lilolmecj]

Ima head out in a bit to check an area that had what I thought was a chanterelle, but it was white. There were some others coming along. It will have to be super obvious, because I do t have any confidence in my ability to tell. I have been able to confidently identify a couple of non edibles. And found some bolettes, but not sure what type.

[@brendalee5373]

I really appreciate your format and how you get down to business.. there’s another KZbinr who spends the first 15 min talking, walking and celebrating before showing a mushroom and that drives me nuts. Perhaps you can tell us how they taste. Thank you so much for the details!!

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Thank you for the kind words, I don't want to bore people with too much talking in the beginning, so I try to get right into the mushrooms usually! Personally, as of like 5 years ago, my system does not tolerate chanterelle's anymore. But my wife does love them, and my mom and all my in-laws, so they have a great supply all the time in the fall!

[@naturallynorthwest9748]

@@mushroomwonderland1 I've heard of people developing an allergy to mushrooms that never used to cause issues. That is so interesting. Do you have GI issues after consuming them now?

[@mushroomwonderland1]

@@naturallynorthwest9748 yep, can't do chanterelle's! Bummer. It didn't use to be like that. I'm hearing of more and more people that can't tolerate them.

[@7josette]

So like how far west???? 😫😭😁 what elevation?

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Right around sea level in the Puget sound. 🍄

[@marcelloplessi9299]

Great chanterelles! But please next time put them in a rigid aerated basket, to let spores disperse.

[@ovangal3852]

WOW...that's all I can say.

[@christineferguson3467]

I have been searching for chanterelles on our property in the usual places and nothing. Holly is starting to invade in these spots. Anyone know if Holly damages the mycelium?

[@mushroomwonderland1]

I highly doubt that it would damage to mycelium, the mycelium lives in association with hundreds or thousands of different organisms in the soil. It will just grow around what it can't find use with.

[@ubhappy2lee27]

Are y Did you get these in deep mountain or closed to cities?

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Just a few miles out of the city in a county park.

[@trevorsherman3993]

You missed one in a fern at 8:23 to 8:24

[@lukebarnard11]

Not really sure why you're so surprised to find goldens late in November. On the Oregon coast, I find goldens in decent numbers well into January!

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Yeah I totally different microhabitat. Almost all mushrooms are usually finished in this area by mid-november but we are having a weird year.

[@lukebarnard11]

@@mushroomwonderland1 Seems odd to me. By all mushrooms do you mean hedgehogs and winter chants, too? Those won't typically start in my neck of the woods until about this time and stretch well into January, too.

[@mushroomwonderland1]

@@lukebarnard11 that's why I said most, there are some species that will hang out into the freezing months, winter chanterelle, blewit, laccaria, some lactarius.. as well as some other varieties. There is typically nothing to be found here in January though.

[@mgiant]

🙂🍄🍄🍄

[@evanfuller3755]

Aaron is fungi.

[@andrewsousa26]

this dude is a hunnuck the way he places them on the ground and then proceeds to chop them with the knife rolling and plunging them into the forest floor and dirt *facepalm/smh*

[@mushroomwonderland1]

I think you just called me a hunk, I appreciate it 😆 I didn't have a tripod or anything like that so trying to harvest these with a camera in my hand is very difficult. I take a lot more care when I have both hands free. But a little Forest flare never hurt anybody.🤷🍄

[@naturallynorthwest9748]

Did anyone else Google the word "hunnuck?"

[@mushroomwonderland1]

@@naturallynorthwest9748 a person who has the potential to achieve spiritual enlightenment! I'll take it

[@andrewsousa26]

@@mushroomwonderland1 no i did not call you a hunk i called you a hunnuck (hun-uck).

[@torclausen]

You missed a big chantrelle at 8:24! go back!

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Haha I did get it, but it was beat up and mushy so I edited it out🤷