So a hardwood forest is a forest with deciduous trees like oak, poplar, hickory - stuff that loses its leaves in the winter. Most mushrooms that you're going to want to eat grow in hardwood forests (like chicken of the woods!)
Can my yard count as a hardwood forest? I've got a dozen mature oaks, a red oak, and a mulberry tree as well as some soft wood pine trees on my little half acre. Whole neighborhood is similarly wooded.
We see mushrooms all the time. I'd like to see if they're edible, but have no idea where to start.
If you have any hardwood forest near you now is definitely the time to get out and look! Mushrooms galore everywhere here in the Blue Ridge Mountains
I don't know if I have a hardwood forest lol
Guess I'll start with learning that!
So a hardwood forest is a forest with deciduous trees like oak, poplar, hickory - stuff that loses its leaves in the winter. Most mushrooms that you're going to want to eat grow in hardwood forests (like chicken of the woods!)
Can my yard count as a hardwood forest? I've got a dozen mature oaks, a red oak, and a mulberry tree as well as some soft wood pine trees on my little half acre. Whole neighborhood is similarly wooded.
We see mushrooms all the time. I'd like to see if they're edible, but have no idea where to start.