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Lots of morels like those to come! :)

Just like you buddy! Hope you load up this year.

Hey thank you very much! Glad you’re enjoying it. Upstate new york is very nice, I’ve spent some time there, good luck with your goal 👍. We’ve got more coming, this season is going to be an adventurous one!

Morel fever kicks in and we can't stop if we try! Then we get back to camp and realize we did thousands of squats and hover around the dutch oven waiting for food.

Yeah for sure!

Heh Joe, Only approximately 10% of morels get picked on forest fire burn sites. Many are too far or too hard to get at. Morels will often flush until freeze up but not at the scale of the spring flush. We try to get them when they are in prime condition. Sometimes, when you struggle to find enough to make it worthwhile and you find these blown out flushes, it really does irk you. We understand this is also how spore and the resulting propagation help this part of the life cycle of the organism. This year, we never seen even one other harvester in this piece if wilderness. We pretty much loaded up every day so we were not too irked 😊 Hope you find your own motherlode this season.

You will find more! Keep looking! What this video doesn’t show is the 100 hours of satellite, canopy, burn density mapping and many long walks we did before finding this patch. Plus we had perfect weather that year! It was hard earned but we made the most of it.

@@northernwildharvest thanks for the info brother. That’s special that you take the kids out. Good job brother

also have you considered a mule or a pack goat? if im no closer to helping hands in the future i want to try that

Hey thanks for the comment. Randy has been picking burns for about 35 years, myself and two of the other for about 10 years. Before that it was picking Chanterelles and Pines since about 5 years old - once you get that buzz from a good harvest it gets in you. Everyone works really hard so we just share our volume evenly which allows us to cover the ground more thoroughly, grateful to these guys for putting in equal effort.

There's five of us harvesting. 70lbs is an awesome day, the buzz after a good harvest like that is priceless! Thanks for checking it out, appreciate it.

these are burn morels picking 70 lbs in a day is a big deal but to compare them with natural yellows down in Oklahoma is far off. i pick 10x more morels in burns on average than i did back in the midwest. Both deliver the same glory in my opinion 10 lbs of naturals or 100 lbs of burn morels

Dude I been mushroom hunting for 30 years and haven't even gotten 70lbs total. So frustrating

Most of what we’re harvesting are technically fire morels but the ones we’re calling fire morels in this video are a rare species that are quite distinct that other non-burn burn morels. They aren’t drier but they are often double or triple walled so they are usually heftier than the early burn morels, which tend to be similar to true naturals from a harvesting and consumption point of view.

Hi Lexie, fingers crossed for you! This was last season, the spot we're harvesting in this video is probably under multiple feet of snow right now. We know how you feel having to wait!

No, those are a different type of cup fungi called Geopyxis carbonaria. We call them fire cups, also sometimes called pyxie cups. They often indicate wet areas in burn sites so they can sometimes be an indicator for morels.

For mushrooms an inexpensive pair works fine but for actual pruning I use Felco brand.

Commercial standard on burns here. Some of the main reasons are to help reduce debris and insect contamination. Also helps to have shorter stems when drying.

Depends on how wet they are when we pick them and the weather. If it's dry and sunny and the mushrooms aren't soaked, as little as 6 hours but we generally say less than 24 to account for variables.

Canada. Way in the bush!

@@northernwildharvest awesome! mush love from alberta! 🇨🇦

It was a particularly abundant patch and we were the only ones harvesting there because it was quite remote!

Only a few on this fire! Not many

We are harvesting in the previous years fire but a lot goes into where we choose to harvest. Last season was particularly good, but 95% of the burn or more, was not producing this abundantly. Plant science, soil science, decades of experience and a lot of luck with the weather.

@@northernwildharvest So it's ok to burn sections of forest down to do commercial mushroom farming? Ive never heard of it.

@@horatiohuffnagel7978 oh no definitely not!!! We are harvesting on wildfires, most of which are lightning caused. Tragically our friends ranch burned in this fire. This area has been having wildfire issues for the last decade because of an increase in summer drought.