Mushroom

“Once you start to learn even a little about fungi, it feels like you can’t see the world the same again.” Erin Moore, Secretary Mushroom Society of Utah My first mushroom forage happened by accident while studying abroad in Northern Germany. As I hiked through the woods with my host parents on a rainy autumn day, we were attracted off-trail by bright red amanita muscaria, or fly agaric, the fairytale mushrooms with their red, white-spotted caps. Some were as large as dinner plates, and I was enchanted. Later, we happened…