Yes it's a beautiful area. I'm glad that many of the trees survived in this part of the fire - Including an established old growth forest around a kilometer from where we are harvesting in this video. It will be a good source of seed trees for the next generation of forest that regenerates.

We have much more coming Helen.

No problem! I should mention that harvesting them while they are still babies and haven't started producing spore can be a bad thing. We always encourage harvesters to not pick the baby morels, it's in their best interest not to.

Haha! Glad you're watching. You know how to get ahold of us if you want to come harvesting! I remember you putting in some serious excavation work at tumbler ridge fire.

@@northernwildharvest yeah, dug a nice shitter there;)

We love working with nature and are grateful to live in a place with enough wilderness to be able to do what we do. Yes after our 2022 morel season is fully released we will have videos of other harvests. Matsutake mushrooms, diamond Willow and Pine pollen to name just a few - many others as well.

@@northernwildharvest Great thank you. Your subscriber numbers are going uo too!

Thanks Alex, we have the plastic food baskets from when we used to run buying and drying stations. They are usually shipped in by the container and sold within the field, it can be hard to get them at times because of this. Same volume as a 5 gallon bucket which is handy. Currently we don't have any baskets left for sale but we might in the future.

typically, if the weather permits, we are working from dawn till dusk during the season - not just harvesting but also keeping camp in order and scouting/travel. The morel season is around 2 months (in one location) give or take a couple of weeks. We don't just harvest morels, we harvest a whole variety of wild products, but the main times of year tend to be spring, late summer and fall. I can only speak for myself on this one. I'm a horticulturist by trade, which combined with other trade work, allows me to have a relatively flexible schedule between harvest seasons. We aren't just doing this for money, we do it because we enjoying being in nature and we love what we do. :)

@@northernwildharvest I can tell you guys are enjoying the outdoors. I had my first taste of morels when Randy shared some with my family and myself years ago in Kirkland Lake. I've managed to watch a few of your videos, good stuff, and I'll watch more as time goes on. Cheers!

Hey buddy, thanks for checking in.

They are just the fruiting body of the mycelium. The areas that already have active mycelium like these will continue to produce regardless of how many we take however we do leave many behind. Later in the season we return here multiple times to fully new crops of mushrooms. By harvesting into baskets/buckets with holes and carrying out the mushrooms across kilometres we are are actually helping to spread the morel spore to new areas. We have actually experienced morels growing out of our footprints that we left weeks before from spreading the spore on our boots! Good question btw

Morels are fruits of the fungus. By picking them up they are spreading spores everywhere. If anything they are helping the fungus

Most of our harvesting is in remote parts of Canada

Normally we do but that mud was worse than it looks. We were too far down that road to risk getting stuck.

We can be 10 km into the forest, and most of our packing is off-road. Depending on the terrain, we will try to route close to the truck, but sometimes walking the road is the better option. Sometimes, if we can, one of us will just go get the truck. Sometimes, we just don't want to show activity with the truck to avoid exposing the patch we are picking... Thx for the advice, though. Those packs are often 100lb plus!

Spent around 40 hours scouting the burn leading up to finding that patch. It’s a lot of fun still