Winter Mushroom Hunting with Adam Haritan

[@jpstapf]

Your depth and breadth of information about fungi continues to amaze me. I really appreciate your videos. They never disappoint. Thanks for educating us not just about medicinal/edible varieties, but also those which should be noted and appreciated for their intrinsic beauty or role in the forest ecosystem.

[@LearnYourLand]

Thanks for the kind words, and I'm glad to hear you find value in these videos! I appreciate the support.

[@NcpwallOrgIntl]

Well said

[@elliotw5918]

I second that!

[@AlClarklikesrocks]

I am amazed at how well spoken you are. Your knowledge of mushrooms is impressive. Thank you for sharing.

[@aedleathers]

I'm so glad to see someone get excited about fungi. I love your videos, Adam, and am learning so much. You're great!

[@LearnYourLand]

Thank you, Ed!

[@BushmanAOD]

the world of fungi is just, so damn awesome! I spend loads of time (but less than I would like to) outdoors, doing the bushcraft / wild camping thing, enjoying the wild life and the serenity in nature, but one of the best, if not the best thing is searching and checking out the fungi over all of the months. cheers Adam, hopefully one day you will start touring the world and giving walks / talks especially in Temperate climates as we mostly share the same species. All the best buddy

[@martinkuuben3559]

This is a wonderful channel, exactly who and what I, as a novice myco-enthusiast, am looking for. You're like the youtube Yarrow Willard of mushrooms for me, love the enthusiasm, makes me happy to see you enjoy what you're doing. Keep up the good work!

[@LearnYourLand]

Thanks, Martin! I appreciate the kind words. Thanks for stopping by!

[@nicolebrunozzi7002]

I love your channel! Thank you for the knowledge. I'm also in Western PA! Hopefully the land I'm hunting will be as fruitful as yours.

[@Pukwudgie_Surprise]

You have such a positive attitude. It's a breath of fresh air in these strange times. Thanks for the videos.

[@blenderbenderguy]

It doesn't get any better than your videos Adam..... as always, appreciate your efforts!..... Gary

[@LearnYourLand]

Thanks, Gary! I really appreciate the kind words.

[@theflyingcrud]

thanks for these videos man, this is exactly what I've been looking for as far as content about fungi/mycology. really enjoy learning about biology of any kind from people that truly care about what they're doing, cheers mate

[@LearnYourLand]

Thanks, Vaughn! Glad to hear you're enjoying these videos. I appreciate the support!

[@user-ks5cg5cd7m]

Thanks. We found at least three of these fungi on our walks this year. Thank you for helping us ID.

[@chuckthompson1195]

I love your channel Adam. Where abouts are you in Western PA? I'm from eastern ky but my dad is from murrysville, pa. But the fullfillment I get both mentally and physically from mushrooming/foraging has been a God send and I've truly found my joy in life. Boletes are officially my favorite after I found and fried my first edulis...WOW! God bless

[@robertoinvests]

hey Adam, It’s Rob we were in the raw food group together that Janet headed here in Pittsburgh. I was searching for mushroom, picking with my nephews that are in from Canada in the winter time and we came across your video. Best of luck with a wealth of information. My dad loves the forage sheep head.

[@valeriewitherington]

As Ive been picking up logs from the wood pile for our fire pit, I have been noticing some fungi that look like some of these. I get so excited when I see a new fungi I have learned about from your channel 😊

[@paulroberts7767]

Amber Jelly's grow on tree limbs, often very high up. They come to ground when branches and limbs fall to ground, like the one you found in this video. They are tasty little buggers. Worth collecting. :)

[@RamblinJer]

When I grew up in Western Pennsylvania snow started around Halloween and stayed on the ground until Easter and there you are on bare ground. I had to wait until spring thaw to even find my bicycle. We would ice skate on our small farms one acre pond. There was enough snowpack that during the spring melt the streams ran with white water, but these days it's much milder weather, no white water, pond doesn't freeze enough to skate and now there's ticks. I truly didn't know what a tick was until I moved to Virginia in 86. It sure has changed over the years.

[@gpvaneron1584]

good one! thanks for livening up the winter a bit. that sarcondontia setosa close up is very cool, something i normally wouldn't even pay attention too in the woods

[@LearnYourLand]

It's a cool find for sure! Make sure you smell it... it's very distinctive.

[@johnsmalldridge6356]

Great video! Thank you for a great encouragement to get out and explore mushrooms beyond the ones I usually look for.

[@LearnYourLand]

Thanks, John! Winter is a great time to notice all those fungi that get pushed aside the rest of the year. With no morels in January, might as well look at the crusts. :D

[@shainemaine1268]

It's been awesome seeing your journey through the feilds of knowledge...

[@enricolovadina3560]

very interesting, question du you find porcini mushrooms on your area ....

[@Seer-Of-Lies_Giver-Of-Mutiny]

i want you in Oregon, youre super informative and i like that you go in depth about the species you see.

[@barbraanderson5489]

Love your song!! What a great surprise!

[@richardm4706]

There are birch trees in Hokkaido where chaga is found. In my village in Gifu prefecture, birch trees also grow sparsely along the river bank and I hope to find some chaga.

[@21shamsham]

Hey Adam, love your videos, are you planning to do any videos on moss and different types and uses for moss?

[@LearnYourLand]

That's a great idea. I'll see if I can get one out in the not-so-distant future!

[@ryanbuckley3314]

Thanks for all the videos. Its high time I subscribed.

[@peterbochek8601]

Nice video Adam, great close up photography ! Indeed a strange winter we are having in West Pa., from one extreme to the other, not conducive to a normal winter ! Thank you for the video :)))

[@LearnYourLand]

Peter - you're right! I thought last year was pretty mild and abnormal, and then we have this kind of winter in 2017. I wonder what this will mean for this year's fungi!

[@davethompson5899]

Adam, just as i was wondering if one could find mushrooms in the winter, you posted this. I just recently discovered your mushroom info and joined Learn Your Land. I look forward to learning as much as I can from you! I sent you an email by the way. I hope you have an opportunity to respond to my questions. Thanks!

[@kristylynch9193]

Great video. Thank you for the information. I am in Year 2 of mushroom hunting in NW Vermont.

[@LearnYourLand]

Vermont is a great state for mushrooms! There's a big foray there this year in September... I may be attending: www.nemf.org/index.html

[@erikg5824]

I just started my journey in mushroom hunting with one that spurred my interest while going for a walk in my neighborhood in Rhode island. It was a chicken of the woods, not Laetiporus sulfureus but cincinnatus, I think! Lol. It wasn't growing on the oaks trunk, but on the root system under the tree, pale off white not really orange. Anyhow that gave me the bug and have found MANY different mushrooms since including several hens! I have a bunch of pics but no way to ID them unfortunately. :( The hens I knew for sure though, and put them in my morning smoothies! :) lol Thank you sir! Love your videos! I'm AMAZED at your body of knowledge with them, and I'm learning tons! Keep up the amazing work!

[@flyinacircle6398]

another great post adam. i'm amazed that you know all the latin names! i have a hard time retaining the common names. edible mushroom collection ends where i live in october , the idea 'winter mushrooms' is almost oxymoronic. excepting chaga of course, which for some reason is collected only in the winter months. any idea why that is?

[@LearnYourLand]

Thanks! A steady diet of lion's mane mushroom and fish oil helps with all that memory retention. ;) Anyway, regarding chaga harvesting... traditionally, it seems that chaga was harvested in the winter by the cultures who incorporated this medicine into their diets. Nowadays, you will hear recommendations to wait until the winter season before harvesting it. The purported reasons are numerous. Some people claim that the nutrient values are higher when the host tree is dormant, and that the chaga becomes flushed with sap during the spring... thus reducing its medicinal potency at that time. I haven't seen any studies on this subject. However, what does make more sense is that harvesting in winter reduces the birch tree's chances of acquiring a bacterial or fungal infection. Removing the fungal sclerotium ("chaga") can leave a wound in the birch tree, so it's best to reduce any chances of collateral damage. Harvesting in winter, therefore, seems to be safer.

[@nathanielanderson4898]

It is funny how I have found most every mushroom I have looked for on our farm in Georgia. We have a combination of pasture, hardwood and conifer woods on a big hill, a creek and flood plain. I look every time I go outside. We have 28 acres. Many kinds of mushrooms appear in my yard at different times of the year, and depending on the weather conditions. My frustration is that I can't identify everything that I find.

[@nathanielanderson4898]

I found Enoki mushrooms last winter. They were really small. I didn't try them., but if I find more this year I may.

[@patriciamulkey9706]

I love watching your videos.

[@LearnYourLand]

Thanks, Patricia!

[@rentalmanager8319]

Adam, We're huge fans of you and your videos, they've been tremendously helpful! At the 10 minute mark in this video you show the brick cap. I'm a bit confused on this one. At the 10:16 mark the mushroom shown looks very similar to velvet foot and the laccaria laccata. It doesn't look like the brick caps in your brick cap id video. Is this common for brick caps to look similar to those?

[@LearnYourLand]

I find that if there is a recent freeze/thaw cycle, mushrooms (especially Brick Caps) can look very different compared to their "normal" appearance. The mushrooms shown at the 10:16 mark deposited a purple-brown spore print... very characteristic for Hypholoma mushrooms. You're right though, they do look a bit like Velvet Foot and Laccaria fungi.

[@ArcheryFanatic2000]

Your videos are so darn helpful! Thank you!

[@lindseyt751]

hi adam, i love your videos. they are wonderful and full of useful information. I was out mushroom hunting yesterday and they were bountiful. I live in the north pittsburgh area, up on buffalo creek. I was curious where you were in this video looks like slippery rock or something. anyways thanks again for all the great info i was always interested in local mushroom hunting but never felt safe until i started watching your videos. happy hunting

[@LearnYourLand]

Lindsey - I spend a lot of time near Buffalo Creek, so it seems that you don't live too far from me! Yes, I was exploring the area near Slippery Rock Creek during the filming of this video. Great place to be! Thanks for stopping by and commenting! Check out the Western Pennsylvania Mushroom Club if you'd like to learn more: wpamushroomclub.org/

[@adamschiff81]

This answers my question. I suppose it's not too cold today at 45ﾟ to go out exploring. As always thanks Adam

[@jz0111]

Adam, which woods you went in PA. I am close to PA and would like to explore it a little bit. Thanks!

[@KiviKalastaja]

I have an Audubon Society field mushroom guide. It lists the Brick Top (Naematoloma Sublaterinium) instead of the Brick Cap (Hypholoma Laterinium). Is there any correlation between the two?

[@ruththinkingoutside.707]

Great stuff again Adam! Thank you! I have a few of those drying on my shelf just for appreciating their unique appearances 😁 I'm going to start an instagram so I can post all my shroom pics .. lol .. I'll give you the link when I get them loaded so you can check them all out.. last count was over 700 shots. Obviously there's multiples of many of them, but I did find a LOT of interesting mushrooms this fall! Lol .. can't wait for spring weather to get out there looking.. 😁 lol .. thanks again, really appreciate the videos!!

[@LearnYourLand]

You're welcome, Ruth... and thanks for watching and commenting! Yes, please share your Instagram link whenever it's up. I'd love to check out your photos and updates.

[@christiroseify]

Really enjoying your videos, binge watching... Thank you

[@susancaleca4796]

Hi i have a question or three. First, how do moss grow? Can they grow in any environment? Do you think they are sturdy enough to exist on any planet? Serious.

[@susancaleca4796]

HI i have a another question... I watched another podcast about gardening and he talked about "pot ashe". He said it contained stuff that would fight off some think he said parasites or something. A few days later another podcast said "our banana crops were dying." Would this "pot ash" help to revive it.?

[@JohnnyMartin78]

Another great video! I live in Chesapeake Beach Md. I guess not too far from your stomping grounds. The cliffs along the shoreline here are loaded with fossils and the surrounding forests are full of awesome fungi. Just a FYI for some future content ✌🏻

[@smurfaccount2162]

I live in mid-southern indiana, i'm assuming that our winter months and types of trees and environments are pretty similar, are your guides just as viable where i live as you? :)

[@RonnieG90]

Hey, I’m in western PA, I was wondering if I could meet up and you show me the ropes? New to much room hunting but very interesting in learning.

[@jackcarlson6767]

well done good sir much love all the way from the west coast

[@LearnYourLand]

Nice to hear from you, Jack. Thanks for stopping by!

[@charronfamilyconnect]

Thanks for the video! I have one question: How do you distinguish between those crustlike fungies that cling to wood sticks and lichen? I read that most lichens are edible except for two kinds which are yellow in color (wolf lichen and some other one). It would be good to know how to distinguish for winter survival knowledge. I know a couple of kinds of lichen like deer moss and Rock trife but thats about it. Thanks!

[@LearnYourLand]

That's a great question, and sometimes it can be difficult to discern between the two because lichen contain fungal components. Macroscopically there doesn't seem to be any reliable method other than learning each individual species. This takes time, but the overall investment on the learner's part is worth it. Crust fungi can be notoriously difficult to identify down to species without a microscope, so the ones I focus on are some of the most common species in Eastern North America. What part of the world do you live in? Maybe there's a lichen club near you. Here in PA, the Pennsylvania Bryophyte & Lichen Association has been a valuable resource for those interested in learning this material. Perhaps there's a related club near you?

[@charronfamilyconnect]

Learn Your Land Thanks for answering me so swiftly. In relation to central pennsylvania(Harrisburg), I am about 7-9 hours(by car) north of you on the 45th parallel. I live in Eastern Ontario Canada ( approximately 45 minutes north of Ogdensburg New York). I live about half hour from a forest park called Larose Forest which I just found out about recently. It has over 600 species of plants along with over 500 species of Fungi and mushrooms. I can't wait to explore it more this spring, summer, and fall. I normally visit a park called Gatineau Park where I discovered my first Maitake mushroom Last October. I was the guy that sent you my pics, and I thank you for helping me to identify them. I really want to learn about as many plants as possible. I read that there are thousands of Lichens in the world, but I wonder how many there are in my part of the continent. I have travelled through Pennslyvania before. Its a beautiful state with all the beautiful forests, mountains, and fields. Thanks again for all your help, and advice from Brent here in Canada.

[@truyennam]

excellent....

[@marylougomes3941]

I have learned sooo much from you! Thank you

[@fluffyhead6377]

Are people planting young ash trees at the moment? I hope those are not becoming infected as well.

[@TheTicktockman321]

The plan is to let the ash trees be killed by the beetle and then once the beetles starved because they killed all the trees, new ash trees will then be planted.

[@meloncholy4924]

great video! and hello from Michigan!

[@LearnYourLand]

Thanks, Tristin! I may be doing an event in Michigan this September with Devries Nature Conservancy.

[@ladonnad.steele2470]

nice to see you!!!

[@LearnYourLand]

Nice to hear from you!

[@KA-gd1lg]

Hello From Newfoundland Canada, Nothing to find here for a few months since everything is buried under feet of snow. Only possible find has been Chauga. Anywho, keep up the great work and informative videos :)

[@LearnYourLand]

Ah - well that's typically what a January afternoon looks like here in Pennsylvania as well... lots of snow. Lately, it's been unusually mild though. Still, chaga is a great find... one of the best in my opinion!

[@gingersworld1695]

How can we tell between a puffball mushroom and a poisonous one?

[@angelspake81]

Can you explain some from upstate SC

[@gokucrazy22]

i know its not Pennsylvania, but where is a good place to search for mushrooms in the central NJ area?

[@donald2108]

gokucrazy22 anywhere with unmaintained leaf litter and decomposing wood. usually forested areas with lots of shade.

[@jinushaun]

Wood ear mushrooms (amber jelly roll) is choice Asian eats! Can't eat ramen without it.

[@LearnYourLand]

Yeah, they're great for sure!

[@saraolexa6264]

I like your videos a lot but the captions hide what you are talking about , please fix if can trying to learn but can't see the funji

[@wick801]

Have you ever seen glow in the dark lichens or mushroom?

[@LearnYourLand]

Mushrooms yes - Panellus stipticus and Omphalotus illudens. No lichens yet. Have you seen any?

[@wick801]

Many times I have seen what i had been told by my science teacher was glow in the dark lichens! It grows flat on dead branches and I've also seen it on an exposed root! Summer to early fall I haven't actually looked for it as of late, but when i was a kid i spent a lot of time wondering the woods at night!

[@dhruvs.2310]

I'm planning on doing a truffle business.. Any good places you can think of that have a good variety of truffles?

[@dontsettlefor500mill]

let me know if you get an answer. coordinates preferred.

[@keepmoving1185]

The west coast has Paul Stemets, the east coast has Adam

[@Beesmakelifegoo]

So beautiful!

[@ThePaul555]

I have found a mushroom that I thought was turkey tail but I am starting to believe otherwise. Could I have an email address to send you pictures to?

[@coogshunt3626]

popcorn ....mushroom my name for the ear one cool video ...

[@LearnYourLand]

That's quite an accurate name for it! Thanks for watching and commenting.

[@coogshunt3626]

Alright we will call it Fungi popcorn. ..

[@pamelaclawson6283]

The Mushroom Man!! Thx dude

[@virginiatozier9957]

It doesn't look like amber jelly rolls could release spore.

[@robertevras6577]

Where did you get your degree? I am so glad I discovered your Chanel!

[@heatherrachel8418]

Adam studied nutrition at the University of Pittsburgh

[@clarsach29]

Sad to hear about the loss of Ash trees in PA...I am guessing it's due to Ash die back disease which is currently a big problem in Europe and causing decimation of Ash trees across the continent.....we are still suffering with Dutch Elm disease 50 years after it first hit and with Phytophthora which kills Pinus species....these will all change our treescapes for centuries to come sadly

[@boydmooso4826]

would love to go with an expert like you sometime. do you ever offer "hands on" training? I am pretty close, maybe a bit north of you.

[@LearnYourLand]

Yes - I lead several events and outings throughout the year, mostly in Western PA. Many are public, though I also lead private events. If you'd like to stay up to date with my events, feel free to join the email newsletter: confirmsubscription.com/h/i/8F756D78F98F8632 Additionally, if you'd like to get in touch regarding private instruction, check out this link: foragingpittsburgh.com/ Thanks!

[@isaacgamez7101]

this guy is a amazing

[@SG-ce7ji]

❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@jtyznik1860]

Lol.. I really love your videos and your knowledge. Thought for sure you were gay” not that there’s anything wrong with that“ But then heard you mention a girlfriend. But when I see your pretty Leif Garrett here with that inexplicable headband I’m questioning my earlier assessment was correct

[@jordanneelaine4511]

Are you a mycologist? You seem to have both the identification skills and the taxonomic skills one would expect from a botanist. I'm just curious.

[@miketurany2082]

Adam, I am astounded by your knowledge of fungus and plants. I have been watching you for a short time and I am never disappointed by your skill and your use of ecologic jargon ( them hard words yas pronounciate ). And were partly neighbors, I live in Akron Ohio.

[@Oculoustuos]

I just want to say that you are lovable.

[@walkingmonument]

You can tell he was a major nerd for fungi when he was like 3 years old