Date: June 7th, 2025 6:14 AM Author: alive girl tp
Best way to pick this up is by directly connecting with other mycophiles and learning from them. There are groups for this on social media. For example, where I live there is a huge Facebook group for people who forage for mushrooms in the area.
this was my “would you rather” q to the family/my 8 year old daughter 2 days ago. perfect mushroom identification skills or be a top tier expert falconer. my wife got pissed for some reason and thought i ruined the game. my daughter thought about it and wavered for the rest of dinner though before settling on falconer
the former is probably more useful. i see a lot of mushrooms on walks and many of them are in the "it COULD be a parasol...or it could cause my pancreas to go off like an atom bomb" grey range of risk
the only ones i can reliably do are morels
i guess a falcon could hunt small game? but nobody who isn't a career outdoorsman wants to hand-gut and clean a bunny these days