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A Mountain Hearth

Tales of Modern Homesteading and Outdoor Adventure

October 6, 2013

Finding Fungus Among Us on the Homestead

At our place, we grow mushrooms the size of a man’s head!
Here’s to the happy discovery of chanterelles on our very own propery.
Big ones!

Filed Under: Life, Wildcrafting

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  1. EMMA says

    October 6, 2013 at 7:12 am

    WOW those are epic chanterelles! Wish we had some here, I'm so useless at finding mushrooms, at least if we had some biggies even I could spot them!

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  2. LaraColley says

    October 7, 2013 at 4:31 pm

    There's always growing your own on logs. I hear folks grow some mighty delicious shittake and oyster mushrooms that way.

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