2016 Mushroom Foray

This annual event is a big hit. Hiking on a beautiful February day in the woods with a warm lodge awaiting your return with a hearty lunch crackling fireplace and Paul Mathew wines. Nobodies complaining.

Another year of strange weather brought us a strange foraging season. We found a few porcini's in the Fall and then nothing for more than a month. We started seeing small amounts of hedgehogs and chanterelles and then finally some black trumpets. But between little rain all 2015 and serious cold in December, when the rain finally came it was not absorbing into the hard ground.

We still managed to have a great day for our foray. With a full group of 40 eager attendees.

Everyone comes back at their leisure to enjoy the warmth and the wine along with great company.

Once we have every one accounted for ( no search party needed ) David Campbell, mycology specialist and guide, gives a thorough explanation of the findings laid out on the table.

 We like these, black trumpets.

 And these hedgehogs.

 Now it's time for lunch.

 The pastry

 The filling

 Mushroom and Liberty Farms roast Duck Pot Pie.

A lot of love in the room: for mushrooms, wine, good company and most definitely our wonderful co  host Rich Mitchell.

Where would we be without you in our lives. Happy February