Our Biggest Chanterelle Haul of the Season! Over 330lbs of Mushrooms

[@bonnerdebbie]

Great harvest, beautiful scenery and Elk sighting. Thanks Phil, Randy, Maddie and Al.

[@khampasonginthisane8266]

I wish I can go hunting with you guys I love picking them up, it’s looking so fun

[@LifeontheGo_family]

Wow!! Amazing haul, team! We were cheering out loud seeing all the golden patches! We are a family that loves to forage and share our adventures too, but we have never seen anything like that!

[@northernwildharvest]

Thank you! Checked out your channel and subbed. I watched your video harvesting fire morels, and you mentioned picking at Sparks Lake in 2022. Funny coindidence as we have an entire playlist of videos from harvesting that fire 🔥

[@LifeontheGo_family]

@@northernwildharvest Such a cool coincidence! Sparks Lake was where we first fell in love with morel hunting (what an amazing year that was!). We now plan a trip every spring to stock up on morels, and our daughter is hooked too. We can’t wait to film another foraging adventure this spring, but in the meantime, we’ll keep watching your episodes while waiting for the snow to clear! If you’re ever in the coastal mountains, let’s connect-we usually have a crazy pine mushroom season up here, and maybe we can collaborate on something. Thanks for the sub! :)

[@northernwildharvest]

@@LifeontheGo_family It was a good season for sure! Good for you for teaching your daughter, she seems to love it. I'm always up for collaborating with other foragers. Coastal mountains are beautiful, we've picked pines in D'Arcy area, although we usually tend to go to the Nass to pick and buy for pines. We'll be out harvesting morels this Spring, already working mapping and planning.

[@LifeontheGo_family]

@@northernwildharvest We know that zone well ;) Its perfect territory for our girl and we find such a variety of mushrooms in that zone! We will start planning our Spring morel trip soon too! Can't wait!

[@lilesosannaflower9956]

so glad for you all that is an unbelievably good chantrell season. Nimo is one happy dogo.

[@mitzioden4926]

Wow! You'll be eating well for quite awhile!

[@Junnykim007]

They sell it!

[@glendavanstroe7708]

happy for you, thats's a huge harvest.❤❤❤

[@northernwildharvest]

Thank you !

[@kkmock]

Thanks for another amazing video!

[@MckennaFanara]

Amazing video!! ❤❤❤

[@randym8963]

Heh heh friend

[@alaskagoldhunter]

Botanical Gold. I love it. They look tasty too.

[@randym8963]

Heh bud! How's it goin?

[@alaskagoldhunter]

@@randym8963 Winter is here. I'm just wanting to go find some stuff besides snow and ice.

[@WalterBuckley-q8b]

Awesome crop, enjoyed the video.

[@ปราณีพาพรชัย-ณ2ฮ]

Good family 😊

[@skybluepink998]

Do you have a video showing how you clean them? Cool to see some of those other mushrooms along the way. You all work damn hard!

[@cheesyspace]

Interessting that mushroom season in canada is still going on. Here in europe you can find chantarelles are only from april to october.

[@northernwildharvest]

Yes, we are very offset from most of Europe with Chanties. Our season in western Canada is often at its peak around the time Europe is finishing. Eastern Canada starts earlier.

[@zhuanjifarms5050]

Amazing harvest, so easy to train eyes and cover ground in that beautiful country...say compared to most choice edibles blending in better. Lotta hours right there!!

[@northernwildharvest]

haha yeah totally. That orange/yellow contrast against the emerald colored moss. Way easier to spot than pine mushroom buttons or morels!

[@HerlinaKabanga]

PEKERJA KERASS,.. ...ALAMNYA YG SUBUR, TANAH YG SUBUR, ALAMNYA BERLIMPAH MEMBERI BERKAT YG LUAR BIASA 👍👍👍👍

[@moribug]

Wow, great harvest. Where I'm from we wouldn't be allowed to harvest that much.

[@northernwildharvest]

Sorry to hear that, and thanks. I am grateful we are able to and to have the opportunity to document how sustainable wild mushrooms are

[@piotrteper8852]

Mee Poland...mushroom ....KURKA !!!

[@Youtuberkit7]

Wow. I want to learn to distinguish edible mushrooms. That’s free food brother

[@northernwildharvest]

Chanterelles are a good place to start. Just don't take any chances unless you are 100% sure you have the right ones!

[@MarivicBaltazar]

❤❤❤❤

[@ramthian]

😊

[@BennieKleynhans]

What do u do with the mushrooms?

[@northernwildharvest]

Besides what we keep for ourselves, we sell some fresh and dry the rest for our online shop. The really nice ones get sliced and dried. The rest get hand pulled, dried, and then ground into powder.

[@Ericoutdoorsadventures]

Awesome video!!! What # of Felco shears are you using?

[@northernwildharvest]

Felco #8 but a cheaper pair works just as well for mushrooms. I just already have two pairs of Felco secateurs because I do a lot of tree pruning and horticulture work in the winter.

[@Ericoutdoorsadventures]

@@northernwildharvest Keep doing your foraging videos!! So interesting!

[@heathwilson6366]

I notice alot of Oregon grape out there do you ever harvest that

[@northernwildharvest]

Yes, rarely on a commercial scale. It it is very abudant, and we harvest it for personal use sometimes

[@heathwilson6366]

Ya I used to harvest it in kalamath falls Oregon when they put a sub devision in and I got tons of there but I won’t go in the forest and get it unless I get a bit for personal use but I do harvest horsetail when the buyers are buying

[@northernwildharvest]

Alex, who sometimes picks with me on the channel, has made mead using oregon grape. Horsetale is another great harvest, abundant, and much better in the wild because if you get it in your garden, it's there to stay.

[@heathwilson6366]

Ya I made a wine with it but it’s a bit tart for me lol

[@billmonczka7197]

Just a question. May be a cooking video with those? Morels? Any of them you sell? I love to cook and may buy if I had some ideas???

[@northernwildharvest]

Yes, that is in the works right now. Lots of recipes and cooking vids coming soon

[@billmonczka7197]

@northernwildharvest one other thought for a video. A biography of you and randy, and the whole mushroom enthusiasm you all have. Where you came from, story or 2 from randy. Just a thought?

[@northernwildharvest]

@@billmonczka7197 We actually have a playlist on our channel called "wild harvesting stories" for that type of content. Plan to do more at some point. Also the first video we ever posted covered some of our story. Thanks

[@meganmclaughlin9056]

looks like the G .P.

[@DeeACook-lc7bd]

Where can I find find your music?

[@MatthewWalls-h7y]

how old are the trees you are picking in?

[@randym8963]

😊

[@northernwildharvest]

Average around 90 years. Some older and some younger.

[@lorrilaque7311]

Hope you left some for the forest

[@randym8963]

Canada has 3.8 million square miles! We have been harvesting this area for close to 40 years.... you can see "our" effect of harvesting is beneficial to zero impact. After we pick more chanterelles will continue to flush until freezeup. This is our job, we pick for those that cant. Harvesting is one of the most sustainable resources in Canada. Very few critters bother with chanterelles except humans. just in case you dont know, the mushroom we pick is just the fruiting body, similar to an apple on a tree. The organism grows in the ground and picking does not hurt it.

[@northernwildharvest]

Yeah we always leave some. Simply by only taking the good quality mushrooms and leaving the rest

[@thebunnyfoofoo]

Those boots will probably do better keeping dry compared to the black ones you wore in your other videos. Also does the dog help sniff out mushrooms?

[@northernwildharvest]

The nubuck leather on the scarpa boots is pretty good and water resistant, but i hadn't treated them in a while. The rubber boots keep you dry but are bad for causing blisters, and i poked two holes in them that week 😄

[@thebunnyfoofoo]

Santa forget to bring you boys some socks? XD

[@northernwildharvest]

@@thebunnyfoofoo Haha! 😅

[@kreamygoodness8158]

Do you go for oyster mushrooms 🍄 too

[@northernwildharvest]

Sometimes, but not a big target for us as they are a farmable mushroom

[@kreamygoodness8158]

@northernwildharvest what are your main targets

[@northernwildharvest]

@@kreamygoodness8158 Depends on supply and demand and the season. For wild mushrooms mainly Morels, Pine mushrooms, lobster mushrooms, most chanterelle varieties, cauliflower mushrooms, a number of bolete species, hedgehogs, and quite a few others. Mostly mycorrhizal fungi (symbiotic with living trees.)

[@kreamygoodness8158]

@northernwildharvest that's awesome hope your channel does well so you can expand your travels.. happy new year and prayers for your continued success

[@northernwildharvest]

Thank you! Love doing the channel, but it actually costs us quite a bit compared to before we started filming for it. Maybe it will lean the other way eventually 😁

[@thefightdoctor1257]

Noticed all the ferns, do you ever harvest fiddleheads? Or are those fern heads not edible?

[@northernwildharvest]

We do harvest fiddleheads but not in this area. The ferns in this video are mostly swordferns. We harvest only ostrich fern fiddleheads for consumption.

[@thebunnyfoofoo]

Would love to other alt mushroom forage videos too

[@thebunnyfoofoo]

First!

[@RichardRolands]

Shouldn't you leave a few behind

[@northernwildharvest]

We don't take them all, but they are the fruiting body, and harvesting them does not harm the mycelium.

[@FelicitasHist-yf5pm]

I do believe cutting sends a shock signal to the mycel that this isn't a safe area for bloom, and they don't shoot out as much or at all as they did. As we know mushrooms are reactive to stress.

[@northernwildharvest]

We've been cutting and pulling for decades in our spots, and as you can see in this video they are thriving. This was one of the best seasons we've ever seen

[@3ggy0lk]

🎉 happy new year everyone❤ loving your videos🍄‍🟫 also 1st comment😅