More Morels

Here is a collection of video shot during the 2009 morel season in Kansas. A slide show featuring still shots follows the videos.

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• edible
• mushrooms
• kansas
• mycology
• fungi
• morels
• morchella
• foraging
• wildlife
• nature
• hunting
• environment
• outdoors
• wilderness
• Mushroom hunting
• Grifola frondosa
• Hen of the Woods
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• Kansas

[troy1387]

Does this patch produce every year like this?

[georgem21275]

It has been producing reliably since discovery in the spring of 2004. No significant tree die offs or disturbances have occurred in these patches in the last two decades that I am aware of. They seem to be happy fruiting beneath healthy trees. I can't be certain, but I like to speculate that this patch will remain robust for quite some time.

[susiebeemee]

Your video was awsome. I can't wait for spring now!! Our fall her in Mo. turned out to be very poor for corals etc. in my area. I only got one mess. :-(

I will say that the squirels ate all of the gills off of every mushroom that came up in my front yard though. It was very weird. Not sure what kind of mushrooms they were. Susie

[georgem21275]

Summer mushrooms were great this year but it has been a little slow this autumn... in my experience anyway.

Already thinking about spring!!! =)

[grifola]

Nice video !!! I wish it was that time again. You have a great honey hole, for sure 5*****

[georgem21275]

Thanks Grifola, I should have a video up in the near future featuring the mushroom you are named after.

[Earthwalker40]

Very cool.

[Feelthefx]

how do you cook morels?

[cobyiscool1]

@georgem21275 hey iam coming to kanas

[mony1466]

OHMYGOD....i wanna live where you do lol

[adramatictheme]

mmmmm, a platter of fried morels and sierra nevada. bring on the next season!

[troy1387]

That's great! I hunted a woods in Northeast Arkansas several years ago and found about 700 yellow morels in there that year. The next year I went back and only found about 300 or so. Then that next year I couldn't find many at all. I might have found 40 or so. The last time I looked in there, I didn't find but 2 or 3. This is a very old woods with a lot of virgin timber in it. It has been unmolested since the indians roamed the land. I'm not sure why the morels ceased.

[grifola]

Cool !! They were everywhere, this year, here in Michigan. Best year I've seen since 2000. I put about 40# of them in the freezer.