Traveling to a Rainforest Wilderness to Harvest Pine Mushrooms (2022 Pines Episode 1)

Join us as we return to our Pine mushrooms patches in British Columbia's Rainforest. After a few years away we are excited to be back in this patch. It holds a special place for us, having spent so much time here over the years.
2022 Pines Episode 1
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00:00 Highlight intro
00:30 Day 1 traveling to the patch
1:35 Rainforest Cinematic
5:04 Finding some buttons
8:53 The bear and the purple dog
10:51 More buttons

[@olgaleyva694]

Beautiful video, Thank you!!❤

[@pachiratiny]

This environment is so lush and beautiful! Look at that mist 🌫️

[@lidlnutz]

10:26 LMAO!

[@salomenanagad2114]

Watching from Philippines 🇵🇭 Wish to experience picking pine mushroom in your country someday

[@treehuggingbuddhist]

I live in the woods near Port Angeles WA and we just found our first morel woot! Thanks for the vid. ❤ 🍄

[@northernwildharvest]

Congrats, that’s awesome! We all live on different parts of Vancouver island when we’re not traveling to harvest. Not far north of you.

[@ThayGiQuay]

I keep waiting your video so much to learn

[@G.A.gigger]

Yes , it has been many years since I have been up that way and I remember the first time driving too long and having to pull over to sleep...pullout by the highway north of the zoo..bridge across a river . Started to set up camp and it was already dark , went down a trail to check out the river and it was a moonlight night and upstream I could hear some ruckus and loud splashing in the river. It was a grizzly bear or two and that was the end of that campsite...Cranberry River crossing .Ended up in the Harper .. this brings back memories for me too.What a wild ,raw , beautiful area of our province. Many fond memories and a few stories to tell..Amazing .Thanks.

[@northernwildharvest]

Thank you for sharing. I know the bridge you’re referring to. My first pine season around a decade ago was spent picking and running a buying station at the cranberry zoo. Not very many people there last year, the price was just far too low and not a great season. Such a beautiful part of our province, apart from being soaking wet all the time, it’s a great place to be out picking mushrooms. People still pick the harper, it has remained one of the more popular areas. The stories told while standing around a buying station at the cranberry zoo are priceless. I bet you could add a few of your own. Cheers

[@bonnerdebbie]

Thanks guys, great video. Those are huge mushrooms, I look forward to seeing how you cook them. Love the bear story, glad it wasn't me.

[@northernwildharvest]

Just wait till you see some of the fully grown ones we get later in the series :) thanks Debbie!

[@romain-es5jh]

Awesome video !! Thx for sharing ;)

[@ADKflyguy]

Randy is the stinkin man aye.

[@dennisolive4741]

What a delicious looking fat mushroom. Lot's of good eating there. That looks a rainy place, so green and lush?

[@northernwildharvest]

Yes it’s very rainy and it’s located in an area where different weather systems meet which tends to result in a lot of fog/mist during the fall months.

[@kekjohnson5912]

The Nass is fantastic! Oh, I miss that country! Thanks for bringing back some great memories. I picked wild mushrooms year round for 24 years.

[@northernwildharvest]

Not many people left picking in The Nass anymore. Definitely a beautiful place. Glad it brought back some memories. :)

[@proy2241]

Hey that’s a beautiful spot. Reminds me of an area here between grande cache and Hinton. The huckleberry berry tower area. It’s also nicknamed the snow belt.thanks for the great video .👍

[@northernwildharvest]

Lots of huckleberries near this area as well!

[@proy2241]

@@northernwildharvest huckleberries are delicious we can’t get enough lol

[@asihsoegiono3795]

Awesome Video you guys ❤❤

[@northernwildharvest]

Thanks Asih! Does Mike recognize this area?

[@asihsoegiono3795]

@@northernwildharvest Mike haven’t watch the video yet , he is out with his buddies right now . I’ll definitely let Mike know to watch your video when he get home ! Be safe out there Phil and Grandp ❤️❤️

[@randym8963]

No worries Asih, we got this ❤❤❤

[@asihsoegiono3795]

Mike said he is familiar with the area phil 😁 and he said “ YOU GUYS DID AN AMAZING JOB with the video 🙏🏻

[@asihsoegiono3795]

Can’t hardly wait till the next video ❤️

[@actionnowoutdooradventures7937]

great hunt. should have shown cooking them up....

[@northernwildharvest]

You're right we should have. Sometimes keeping the batteries charged while working in the bush is tough but we're going to make a real effort to capture more cooking in our coming seasons. Cheers

[@LukesMushrooms]

That's a beautiful forest. And interesting mushrooms too. Never seen these.

[@northernwildharvest]

Hey Luke. They are very prized mushrooms and quite rare globally. They were the original wild mushroom that was commercially hunted here in western Canada. back in the 1980’s there was a real mushroom rush based around the pine/matsutake harvest here.

[@LukesMushrooms]

@@northernwildharvest Ok - about Matsutake I at least know this Japanese name :) I think we have a similar mushroom here - Catathelasma imperiale. However, that one is very rare and protected by law. I think they pick this mushroom for eating in China, for example. I found an article that Matsutake is of similar taste to Calocybe gambosa (which I was picking yesterday), but I'm not sure how much I can trust it.

[@northernwildharvest]

@@LukesMushrooms the taste is hard to describe but very distinct. Unmistakable smell - very strong. We have multiple species of matsutake here, although technically they are a different species of Tricholoma, they are very similar to the ones in Japan. Pine mushroom and matsutake are used interchangeably here in terms of naming. We spread the mature flags around every season to new areas, it’s been very neat to find new beds producing years later where they never used to grow.

[@LukesMushrooms]

@@northernwildharvest Thank you for explaining. Great to hear you managed to help them spread to new locations!

[@TheSoteq]

are these mushrooms a Matsutake (Tricholoma matsutake)? i have never seen or heard of one of these, but i live in austria in the middle of europe and it seems that they are extremely rare here...

[@northernwildharvest]

It is the western North America version of a matsutake. Technically a different species but they are still often called matsutake here.

[@TheSoteq]

@@northernwildharvest thanks for clarifying! i never have heard of these mushrooms at all, but there are so much different species just here in europe so i'm happy if i can identify most of what i find in our forests here in austria^^ mushrooms in general are such fascinating and interesting lifeforms, some of them are even activly hunting for animals (nematodes), just mindblowing what those strange creatures are capable of^^ thanks for all the videos you share with us, it's really interesting:)

[@northernwildharvest]

@@TheSoteq considering mushrooms were only separated from plants and became their own kingdom in the late 1960’s, there is still so many mysteries to unravel! :) happy to share with you the rare species we are lucky to find. Cheers

[@dennisolive4741]

@@TheSoteq Very good point about fungus hunting other life forms. I've seen some videos about one called Cordyceps. I've seen videos of them in Tibet living in Caterpillars and coming out of their heads to spread their spores. They are are supposed to be very healing for us. What a wild world we live on. Peace

[@TheSoteq]

@@dennisolive4741 cordyceps are one of the most interesting families. there is also one species in south america which infect ants and make them crawl at the top of plants biting a leaf until they die there so they can spread their spores better.... that's where the idea of the last of us games is from;) just stunning what mushrooms are able to, they also "talk" to each other by electric impulses...

[@scottkendrick2644]

Glad you are doing a new foraging series, just wondering if this is running for you guys about the same time for King boletes? Seems here in Seward Alaska boletes are abit later.

[@northernwildharvest]

Generally speaking King Bolete season is just before Pines with a bit of overlap sometimes, in our experience. We didn't capture much summer harvesting last year but we plan to over this summer following morel season.

[@scottkendrick2644]

@@northernwildharvest That forest floor is identical to most of ours with one difference no pines. hemlock and spruce. We are still 3 weeks to a month before Morrel pop. Very cold spring here(

[@northernwildharvest]

​@@scottkendrick2644 Seward seems like a beautiful area. Hope it warms up for you soon! This area has more pine mixed in because it's a little further inland from the coast. It's right in the transition from coastal forest to interior forest.

[@jaredandcompany]

Curious if you guys can ID most of the other mushrooms you are showing when you are out there

[@northernwildharvest]

We are familiar with a good amount of the mushrooms we come across in temperate forests (there’s a LOT). I can show off and ID more of them over next season if that’s something of interest?

[@jaredandcompany]

@@northernwildharvest I think you put the perfect amount of ID in the videos. I was just curious if you guys could ID most of what you find. Do you ever stumble upon and forage mushrooms that you didn’t expect to find?

[@northernwildharvest]

Yes we do. We try to keep them in separate baskets when harvesting though. Good practice not to mix different types.

[@jaredandcompany]

@@northernwildharvest I can relate. My kids trick or treat chocolate tastes like shit because the skittles are in same basket 😅

[@northernwildharvest]

@@jaredandcompany haha!

[@BlueAquaAquaristik]

Ich wünschte hier würde unser Wald auch noch so aussehen 😢😢😢 aber wir haben hier bald keinen mehr 😢

[@lidlnutz]

😥

[@northernwildharvest]

😨 there are places where that’s happening here as well. It’s devastating when an ancient mushroom patch, which we become very attached to, is suddenly gone overnight.