The kingdom of Fungi wasn't separated from the kingdom of plants until the 1960s and when I was going to school in the 80s and 90s the only thing I really learned about them was that they had their own kingdom. I have lived in the pnw for over a decade but never noticed or cared about the fungi until the pandemic drastically changed my life and I finally had enough time to stop and notice the fungi. I've been on a nerd quest/compulsion ever since to discover these awesome beings all around us in the pnw. Love your channel Aaron

Found your channel just today. Thanks brother!! I as well as many need this

This is a very interesting presentation. My biggest issue, like everyone, is being worried about proper identification. I was pleased to find that several that grow in my yard are edible. Excellent points made to not get lost in the woods. Here in the PNW any autumnal day should include a hot beverage, and a reflective blanket, .

I just wanted to let you know I’m from the Seattle area and this video brought me such peace and was so interesting. Thank you so much

Just getting into mushrooms this year after seeing tons along rivers fishing for trout. Awesome video, learned a lot.

Thank you so much for this video... fungi was my first and foremost interests ever since childhood. And I am originally from the PNW so this was a real treat to watch, brings back wonderful memories!!!

Thank you so much for all the amazing info. Love the explanation and easy identification tips for a beginner like me.

Incredible documentary! I wish there were more of these around

this was such a helpful and informative video, absolutely delightful! thank you! can't wait to get outside and hunt some shrooms :)

Very well done. Inspiring.

Thank you I will be following for more great shared info. Thanks Brother 🙏🏼🍄👍

I just wanted to say thank you and great job with the documentaries you made Brother! I've watched a lot of your other videos and I am a fan for sure, but I didn't know you made these documentaries.

Wow!!!! Thank you so much. This answers do many questions

I've been in the woods my whole life around the canal and Olympic park, harvesting everything the peninsula has to harvest,and I appreciate this knowledge your sharing cause I see these edibles everywhere,thank you for this

It is the time and can't wait! 3 months to check out trail and get ready...

Thankyou for this video ! ❤ Hello here from Skagit County Washington 👋

Thank you for so much interesting and useful information!

absolutely awesome,,,

enjoyed very much as fungi lover thank you !

Wish I would've know about this group when I lived up in Kitsap county.

I've seen so many different mushrooms all through the year throughout my Skagit Valley acreage!! I like to photograph them because they're beautiful and elegant. Now I want to learn about them and this video is a great start!! Thanks for sharing your knowledge!!

this was awesome.. thanks

Thank you for sharing

I lived in Kitsap County for forty years and never new about this Society. Dang. I'm out in Belfair now. Might have to think about looking into visiting you guys. I'd sure love to learn about foraging for edible 'shrooms!

This is so fascinating to me. I’m going to see if they have a mushroom club in S.Jersey!

Nice video. Thanks for your work.

What a great informative video ! The gentleman with the big white beard growing mushrooms in his house was a great bunch of information.

Great information. Thanks!

Personally I want to thank you for a wonderful information it means a lot to me

You are the champignon my friend , we are the champignon of the world !

I didn't know matsutake grew in the PNW; found several beautiful aminta muscaria right in downtown Seattle a couple days ago, I just left them and hopefully they're still there.

Wonderful documentary!

Nice, informative channel for beginners...Thx. Btw, that red cap leccinum albostipitatus is being considered as perfectly edible mushroom cross EU.

Excellent

Oh I'm cooking mushrooms with love.. I love pink oyster because they're big and tastes like bacon...

This is super rad! I live in Huntington Beach always wanted to visit up North. It looks stunning!

Wow what big and beautiful shrooms! Never seen so many …I live in south Al . My box turtles love to eat them so I’m always bent over in the woods searching….

loved it

Nice presentation! 👍👍👊

Fascinating

I really appreciate the warning about getting lost in the forest. I can't tell you the number of times it's happened to me personally. Lucky for me I'm usually close enough to home that I can call my husband. He will then come to the parking lot where he sees my car and lay on the horn and tell me or the dog skin hear him.

muito bom!! amei

I dig the OLD school M's cap with the trident, I have a similar one that's all black & white. GO M'S!

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Brand new to the channel. I was told as a kid that even touching a poisonous mushroom could make you sick. Apparently not true. 😆Already have learned something new watching. Thanks for the information! New subscriber!

The walk down the trail was cool.

🍄🍄🌿😍! I loved!!!

I should grow my own mushrooms. I love them 😃

Going through all your videos! Good stuff! Any recommendations on foraging for beginners classes?

Thank u so much !!!

Here in my state, Georgia, I find Chantelles amongst predominantly "Coniferous" pine trees. Albeit, very old Pine trees. I'm sure some of the scattered river birch and cypress roots intertwine somewhere under the soil but produce Chantys ever single year in late May/June near river banks especially. To anyone who may venture out. My profile pic was taken standing adjacent from a patch.

The coolest thing about fungi and mushroom (meh, same thing)…. We haven’t even discovered 1/4 of the possible species, or rather the seven levels of classifications. There’s a photographer from Australia that has taken some AWESOME photos and videos of fungi.

the only chicken of the woods i ever found on a living tree was on an oak on the Plumas NF in cali. the hundreds of others i've found have been on long dead larch stumps.

Yes if you cut chanterelles they absolutely will grow another mushroom the ones I pick early in the season I come back for late in the season and get a double harvest

The problem we have in England is the huge increase in pixies. Every blasted fungus has windows and a door. However, it's nice to see a documentary that's down to earth and 'chatty'. It was great to see Father Christmas without his uniform on.

Blue King Oyster is one of my tip favorites. Its no surprise to learn it's also medicine!! #GodsPharmacy

did they make a UK version of this amazing program ?

When can we watch another episode? Thank you very much

thanks for sharing your knowledge...but can you move to New England please? ;)

How do I do this I want to do this you’re awesome thank you for sharing this

I am pretty sure I have met you in my travels through recent years...??? Central Oregon coast maybe?

Awesome video! I learned so much, this has been very comprehensive :O It's a bit odd that you put 10m of black filler at the end, but other than that, stellar work!

My brother lives in PORT ORFORD down past COOS BAY , he lives a couple blocks from the ocean and there is a dead tree stump on the other side of the fence of his front yard last year he said it grew something huge out of it he could see it from his kitchen window and was going to get a closer look the following day I said OOOOH take a pic for me it may be a CONK!! Next day he goes out, kids were walking by after school and one lil guy was kicking the last chunks of it down the street on his way by!! What a shame! This year it grew a different mushroom said to be CHICKEN OF THE FOREST? It is pretty big, and the colors!!! BEAUTIFUL red, orange /yellow!! I would love to know if CONKS grow here in Van C. And where to find the large ones?

I heard its good mushroom foraging to cut your mushrooms with a knife at the bottom so that they grow back and you keep the fungus alive. I've notice most of the mushrooms were just ripped out in this. is cutting a good practice or is it okay to just rip em out

I'm shocked to hear him say going shiitake on logs is difficult. I live in Southwest Michigan and I had never heard that or probably would never have even attempted it. Growing shiitake on logs was actually the first mushroom I ever grew. I found it so easy it basically grows itself

56:11 has to be my favorite type of mushroom. Not sure what it's called though!

Does anyone have a suggested channel for videos like this but for the south east? Like North Georgia/ NC area specially? This vidoe was awesome!

cool

Fun mysteries of fungi.💖

I'm looking for part 2 of this documentary on your channel. Is it under a different title perhaps? I've subscribed and will be awaiting more of your fascinating videos !! Thanks 🙏

my question is.....the potency, the first is the strongest, or the last? Or do we look at the number numbers...thank you

Let's be honest... chanterelles (cibarius) are the BEST mushroom! taste so good. Btw, I have experimented with boiling mushrooms and then frying them as a method for cooking. I have had very good results. I would advise any mushroom lovers to try it out. Works very well for both spongy and gilled mushrooms. PS porcini has to be eaten raw with salt, lemon and a touch of olive oil. Just make sure they are young.

I live in the Sandy OR. area, I there a myco society around her that anyone might be able to point me in the direction of? We are approaching fungi season and I'd really like to spend some time with some people that can help me start my journey through the mushi kingdom? I've learned a few, but definitely a noob!

Heading to Sequim next weekend from Eugene, maybe I will eat some of his fresh picked mushrooms

At 44:00- I thought that was a suillus granulatus and not The slippery jack. The jack has a persistent ring. Pretty sure. Both are edible though.

Oregonians Smash that Thumbs up!

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46:00 hmm I wonder if this happens to other species ? Could end the cut/pick debate if so bc why pick when you could cut and possibly reharvest the same mushroom multiple times.

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I noticed during the portion of the video in the lab, that the isopropyl alcohol is 99%. I heard 99% evaporates too quickly to provide adequite sanitization, and that 70% is better.

Imagine how rich that grower could get if he started growing magic mushrooms

Do you know a good book for ID mushrooms in the pnw

link to episode 2?

great documentary only spoiled by drowning out valuable information in the narratory by playing music over top of it way too distracting and too loud re-mix it quieter please!

House of the Rising Sun being played in the background. 👍

Most mushroom you see in store, are not randomly plucked! What they do is, in old terms, you have something called botani whatsoever. And so, what most of you ... nowadays, mushroom are mostly cultured.. like so many cherries or StrawBerries, chestnut, groundnut & you name it! So, you will have some sort of like one huge greenhouse nursery look-a-like & from 1 end to the other.. all you could see, is mushroom. So cultured/greenhouse.. ..what ever you want to name it, have gone around for centuries & yeah, feel free to get them in-stores!!!

Or, portobello steaks with wine 🍷😏 I'm a Pescatarian so portobellos are great meat substitutes.

Love grill portobello with cheese.

Aaron?! We were wondering if you have class on weekend (s)? We would love to tag along with ya’ll This coming spring or next early fall 🍄

cool vid! is it just me or is the last 15+ minutes here just a black screen....?

At 40:52 into this video, you say you discovered Amanita Muscaria. Sir? Isn't that an Amanita Regalis? 🤷🏻‍♀️

What's the name of the song you used around the 40:00 mark?

One of the major establish ecosystems on the planet earth is the fungi

Im very interested in the Lion's Mane or Hericium erinaceous and I wonder does it grow wild in the PNW? Also, please nobody respond with instagram tags to score psychs Im alright.

Would it be good practice to lay a marker stake in areas where dangerous mushrooms are discovered? With some accountability attached eg "WARNING, DEATHCAPS FOUND IN THIS AREA - local mushroom society UK" or whatever. I mean, the system isn't foolproof but it could assist any few/far betweeny mushroom hunters out there

Magic mushroom

@6:12 they were known as the fruit of “immortality “not in morality. That’s why only royalty could eat them.

I'm jealous of those in the PNW - I'm in MN and we get a very much shorter mushroom season... [I'm actually in need of a partner as I've become less physically mobile due to a medical condition but I am still hopelessly addicted to foraging, so if you're in central MN and you want to learn, drop me a line!] Some interesting things I've learned are: A. Even false morels are edible if you boil them in several exchanges of water. B. Crushed up Dead Man's Fingers mixed with water is a cure for an ear infection! And if any mushroom forager wants to go on vacation - Croatia and the rest of Eastern Europe is amazing! The almost best thing I've found was a VERY, VERY, VERY close look-a-like to the Matsutake. I was able to find out what it was once from an anecdote by maybe Michael Kuo or the like who had the same experience I did - elation at finding it and identifying it as far as one could, then tasting it with very much disappointment... only wish it were true (unless there's something environmental that's causing it to not taste correctly. Not sure how often that can happen. When I have disposable income I will be sending in a specimen for DNA and Spore Print identification to make sure...)

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Music too loud but thanks for this video!