Popular Post Sourdough Scott Posted March 27 Popular Post Share Posted March 27 Wondering how many out detectorists here while out looking for gold also pick mushrooms, berries and such when in season? I'm always looking. I look for Morels and Bolet mushrooms, goose and elderberries. What do you look for in your neck of the woods? 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe L Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 Strange as it seems, my wife loves to do crafts with pine cones. So most of the times I carry a cloth shopping bag, when hunting my wooded area I frequent, and bring her a bag full. She picks out the good ones and the rest feed my outside wood burner, As for mushrooms, my Dad used to take me along, gee around 55 years ago, and tried to teach me, as he called it, mushroom pickin, and now I wish I paid attention.😔 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sourdough Scott Posted March 27 Author Share Posted March 27 2 minutes ago, Joe L said: Strange as it seems, my wife loves to do crafts with pine cones. Regular pine cones or the big Sugar pine cones? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe L Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 Well, bring I’m not a crafter like her, what ever looks good I pick it up, mostly the bigger cones, not sure of the differences too much. Most are opened up and look pretty nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe L Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 Just looked up the sugar pine cones and definitely not them, their huge, definitely the smaller. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger-NH Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 In New Hampshire, I like to find blackberries, black raspberries, raspberries, and blueberries throughout the summer. I often see mushrooms but haven't yet learned to identify them properly. I'm pretty sure I spotted some morels last year but left them where they were. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeoBill Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 Didn't take a picture but just yesterday came across a large fruiting of Shaggy Parasol (Chlorophyllum rhacodes or Lepiota Rhacodes), one of my favorites. Great with scrambled eggs. A place I like to metal detect is up in the hills where there was a road house along old Skyline Road in the late 1800's - about 1930. Fall and winter I can always find chanterelles and horns of plenty, not to mention the blackberry bushes I have to whack through to get there in the spring. Yummmmm. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost Scout Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 Morels, corrals and bolet mushrooms. Blackberries, elderberrys and Huckleberry's. Have a harder time with the "Gold berry's" here is pic showing the contrast between hucks and the Gold variety. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GotAU? Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 Dutch oven baked fresh blackberry cobbler with homemade vanilla ice cream on the Klamath River. Salmonberries you pick from the edges of the trail while hiking in the Olympics. Those were some of my favorites. But that was before detecting. Now that I mainly desert detect when I can go, the only berries I pick are the little round lead ones that I mostly keep finding. Don’t eat those!! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost Scout Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 Forgot to mention that the gold berry's keep indefinitely, but do not make good syrup, jelly or even a good topping on pizza.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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