"Joe Zorzin" wrote in message ...
"Daniel B. Wheeler" wrote in message
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While purchasing maitake (Grifola frondosa) today at a local farmer's
market, I also saw some nice Cantharellus formosus, aka Western
chanterelle. Since I haven't found many of these, I asked the guy
running the operation where they came from, and found out a farmer was
irrigating a field nearby, and was also irrigating some of the trees
on his property. The chanterelles were fruiting in response to this
irrigation. While I kind of wonder if the chanterelle production is
paying him for his irrigation costs, it is an interesting concept.

Daniel B. Wheeler
www.oregonwhitetruffles.com


Daniel, you should publish a book, "Cooking with Mushrooms". Do you have any
recipes? Be sure to distinguish those that might cause psychedelic effects,
as we don't want any of that! After all, we're all redneck woodsmen. G

Maybe somewhere down the line there will be a cookbook, Joseph.

As fir the later point, if you go to the Oregon Mycological Society's
52 Annual Fall Mushroom Show, you can look at the variety and maybe
even some of the potential crops your forested land is also likely
producing. You can decide for yourself whether you have other
economically important fungi.G

While I don't think there will be any Oregon White or Oregon Black
truffles on display (I hope I'm wrong), I'm working on having some
other fungi which are commercially important present: Grifola
frondosa, Lentinula edodes, Ganoderma tsugae, Cantharellus formosus,
Laetiporus sulphureus, Hypomyces lactifluorum, etc. Of especial
interest to foresters is which ones are symbiotic, parasitic, or
saprophytic. For example, the saprophytic Lentinula edodes is a good
choice for reducing 2-12" diameter debris into an additional forest
product.

Daniel B. Wheeler
www.oregonwhitetruffles.com