If you want to find morel mushrooms this year, here’s a tip:  don’t wait until spring to begin your hunt.

This might sound like unconventional advice.  After all, current temperatures are too cold for morels.  Wood frogs haven’t even bred yet.  Spring is still another 50 days away.  

All these things are true.  But this next statement is also true:  you can drastically improve your future chances of finding morels by doing a few things right now.  

In a brand-new video, I discuss several tactics we can implement immediately.  I also share my predictions for the upcoming season.  Will the mushrooms be plentiful this year?  Will they be scarce?

You can watch the new video here.

Thanks for reading and watching!

— Adam Haritan

Greetings,

In anticipation of the winter season, I am excited to announce that two Learn Your Land online courses are on sale this week.

To improve your foraging skills, consider enrolling in Foraging Wild Mushrooms.  This 4-season online course is designed to help you safely and successfully harvest wild mushrooms from the forest, from the field, and even from your backyard.

To improve your tree identification skills, consider enrolling in Trees In All Seasons.  This online course teaches you how to identify 100 trees in every season.  If you want to develop the confidence to look at a tree and say, “That’s black spruce, no doubt about it,” or “That’s most certainly sourwood,” or “That can’t be anything but mockernut hickory,” consider enrolling today.

These courses are self-paced and presented entirely online.  Once enrolled, you can start, stop, and resume at any time.

Please note that both courses — Foraging Wild Mushrooms and Trees In All Seasons — are on sale for one week only, from today until Monday, December 23. 

Thanks for supporting nature education!

—Adam Haritan