Cycling to forage for wild mushrooms

Añadido: 2026-05-25

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[00:02:51]>> [music] >> Yeah, that's [music] how we do it.

[00:02:59]Yeah, so.

[00:03:01]There's a coil.

[00:03:03]Oh, yeah, yeah. So, dude, I've [music] been looking for morel mushrooms for about 10 years now.

[00:03:09]Every year, I swear.

[00:03:10]Yeah, like they're [music] popping up earlier and earlier. And like I was mentioning just a bit ago, like if that's not a sign of like [music] climate change, I don't know what to tell you, man.

[00:03:20]It's warming up faster every year.

[00:03:22][music] And [ __ ] I don't know [ __ ] about like any of that [ __ ] really, but it's kind of freaky. But, check out these mica caps.

[00:03:31]That's a whole different topic, but yeah, these are mica These mica caps are really sick, dude.

[00:03:36]So, these mushrooms they're considered edible springtime mushroom. [music] They're actually really easy to identify for that reason.

[00:03:44]Um, what [music] was interesting about these mushrooms is that they they break down really fast. So, they don't like they're [music] edible, but their shelf life is about 2 or 3 days. They actually turn into a ink. Uh their nickname is ink They also have a nickname [music] of their nickname is ink cap as well.

[00:04:04]But, mica caps [music] are more common name. Some people actually use this mushroom for like um you just ink like, you know.

[00:04:14]>> Yeah. Yeah. writing Yeah, painting and drawing and [ __ ] like that. It's pretty sick. [music] Um so, the way they do is like they boil it down. Um and yeah, use it as a pigment. There's a few other mushrooms that you can do that with too. So, it's pretty rad. We'll actually put [music] this in the basket just for fun.

[00:04:36]But, these are super sick. Mica caps.

[00:04:38]These are again Mica caps? Um mica caps.

[00:04:41]Yeah, mica caps.

[00:04:42]Yeah, um and yeah, you can kind of see them doing their thing and breaking down already. Yeah, they and that's like you know, probably a day [music] of that happening. These mushrooms pop up after a nice heavy rain and it rained a couple days ago. [music] So, they're just starting to do their thing.

[00:05:00]But, these again, these are common springtime mushrooms.

[00:05:04]Um [music] one of the first few that pop up. That's a stem and cap mushroom at least.

[00:05:09]And um they grow in clusters, too. And there's not many toxic look-alikes [music] that are growing around the same time. So, it's really easy to ID.

[00:05:19][music] Yeah, and they're super cool cuz they're they're a decomposing species. So, they help [music] break down [ __ ] You know, you really easy mushroom to ID. Just like Yeah, and they taste pretty good as well. Mica cap, [music] it's the shaggy mane and can't think of the other [music] one.

[00:05:39]But, yeah, mica cap shaggy mane. Yeah.

[00:05:41]Those are some common ink ink mushrooms or considered their caps. You can use them as pigments [music] and there's a few other varieties that are even better.

[00:05:51]Um you know, from like blacks, blues, browns. Whoa.

[00:05:58]Is that like a [ __ ] jack rabbit?

[00:06:01]Damn. Rest in power, dude.

[00:06:04]And life goes on.

[00:06:06]That's crazy to think about [music] people writing with mushrooms just you know.

[00:06:12]Yeah, it's really interesting. There's some really cool books out there, too, [music] that kind of give you great recipes on like um utilizing these mushrooms as pigments. It's really really dope stuff. Yeah, I know a lot of people are doing um uh like dying clothes with mushrooms.

[00:06:29]Yeah, that's probably one of the cooler things I've seen.

[00:06:33]Check this [music] out, dude.

[00:06:35]So, uh for some reason at this park I'm usually finding morels here at the river bottoms. Yeah.

[00:06:45]>> Um along [music] the Mississippi, pretty much. So, this this is the Mississippi.

[00:06:50]Um Yeah. [laughter] >> Yeah. And uh morels seem to pop up here.

[00:06:55]So, I mean, you can kind of see from [music] here there's a couple right there.

[00:06:58]>> Wow, so sick. Here we go. We got some They're all popping up right here.

[00:07:02]Oh, damn. We got some [music] nice ones, dude.

[00:07:07]Yeah. These are really special.

[00:07:12]These are a Minnesota delicacy, for sure. This is actually our state mushroom. [music] They really they're super badass. And these mushrooms are sick because they don't have gills.

[00:07:22]Um they have pits. [music] And so, they the way they reproduce they actually shoot their spores out their pits. It's super trippy. It's uh mad microscopic, [music] so you don't see it happening. Yeah. Unless you kind of got those like tiny eyes. [music] I wonder if mosquitoes can see the spores.

[00:07:42]Oh yeah, a couple days ago we had that rainfall. Yeah, [music] dude, they're popping, man.

[00:07:48]Yeah, super hype. Yeah, so there's a couple ways to do it, man. So [music] Um, you know, you can just pluck them.

[00:07:59]You know, go to the base.

[00:08:01]You know, and then like pull and twist.

[00:08:04]Personally, I like to go with a nice harvest them with a knife [music] just because it's just like less less having to manicure at the end. But I think what's really important when it comes to harvesting [music] mushrooms in general is making sure you leave something behind. That's just a practice that I >> [music] >> that I learned from some native native homies and it you know, it makes a lot of sense, you know, we can't [music] just be taking from nature without giving back. I think that's super important.

[00:08:33]Uh, so check it out. This is how I'm going to do it.

[00:08:37]>> [music] [music] >> Beautiful. Yeah, these are really really badass and I mean there's a couple there's a few ways to like identify these morels, [music] too.

[00:08:54]And uh you know, one way is like when you you can split [music] them open and like they're always going to be hollow. Yeah.

[00:09:05]Yeah.

[00:09:07]I didn't [music] think it'd look like that. Yeah. Yeah, dude, that was proper.

[00:09:12]So, uh so I again, after [music] harvesting, bro, I really usually I'll have weed or something.

[00:09:17]Um, but like in this case I'll probably use like my hair.

[00:09:21]And [music] just give a little hair.

[00:09:22]Yeah.

[00:09:27]Yeah, but this is for my mushroom homies.

[00:09:29][music] Salute.

[00:09:33]Yeah, that's how that's [music] how it goes, but dude, so but right now it's just like all over the Rumney's river bottoms, morels [music] are just popping out right now.

[00:09:44]This is probably my first uh or not my first, I'm sorry.

[00:09:48]Uh my favorite place [music] to look for uh morel mushrooms around this time of the year cuz it's like you're along the river and it's like you're outside after being like tucked inside cold vibes the whole winter.

[00:10:04]So you're saying we're kind of like the mushrooms. Yeah, exact exactly. And also too with to me it's like like running into an old homie again, you know? Yeah.

[00:10:14]Like when you find um find these mushrooms, it's like, "Oh, what up?

[00:10:17]You're back. I haven't seen you yeah all all winter." It's rad. Yeah. Yeah, dude, it's super super cool.

[00:10:24]Yeah, and these mushrooms, morel mushrooms, [music] um they're really special to me. They they mean a lot to me because like these mushrooms are like the mushrooms that really got me into foraging.

[00:10:36]Cuz like I mean you know it just it just felt so right the first um first time I found them.

[00:10:44]And then uh it was like a a huge trust thing, right? Like if [music] you look at these mushrooms as like someone who isn't into fungi, they look [ __ ] insane. So it was a huge trust thing for me to [music] be like, "Okay, am I identifying these correctly?

[00:11:01]And like am I going to die by eating these?"

[00:11:04]Yeah.

[00:11:05]Where was the first place you found The first place I found morel mushrooms was in Stillwater, Minnesota.

[00:11:12]Yeah. Along the um >> [music] >> St. Croix. Yeah. Yeah, and still to this day I go back there. St. Croix's legit. [music] Again, dude, along the Yeah, the river gives, bro.

[00:11:22]The rivers out here they're they're givers. So again, that's why we got to give back, you know, with in in any way we can. And again, usually I have like herbs and you know.

[00:11:33]And I would do some herbs. um >> [music] >> Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know.

[00:11:40]Exactly, yeah.

[00:11:42]Yep, [music] yes sir. But this is the vibes, dude.

[00:11:45]Like what?

[00:11:47]And and the cool thing about this park [music] is we're so close to the city, too, bro. Like It's pretty slept on. [music] And then, you know, there's a huge history, you know, with this this [music] this land in general.

[00:12:01]Yeah, we we got to respect it and take care of it.

[00:12:04]Big time, yeah.

[00:12:06]Yeah, [music] and so like that's part of the sustainable harvesting, right? So, I mean, there's a whole debate and spiel about how you should harvest but you know, some people say don't dig the whole mushroom out the ground, and [music] you know, um because, you know, that'll disrupt the disrupt the mycelium.

[00:12:26]You know, but I [music] I I personally just try to practice um ways of sustainability [music] as much as possible. So, I just I don't know.

[00:12:37]I try to harvest them, cut them cut them with the knife, and leave a little piece of fruiting body. So, my rule with the morels is like, you know, I would leave >> [music] >> like all the you know, the tiny ones and let them grow a little longer. But something like this [music] is considered harvestable.

[00:13:00]This is probably like prime time right here, in my opinion.

[00:13:05]You know, they're just the right size where a bug really can't live in them.

[00:13:14]Oh, that one just popped off.

[00:13:17]This looks a little funky, but what I would do is just harvest that, and then I'm still good to go.

[00:13:25]Yeah, it's a little mold.

[00:13:27]Toss that back over here. guys.

[00:13:32]Yeah, little babies.

[00:13:34]Little guys. So, I would So, that right there is considered too small, in my opinion. I'll let that grow a couple more days. Yeah. [music] This This can This can ride. This can This can pull up with me right here.

[00:13:47]Hey, >> [music] >> I feel like there's something on my hair.

[00:13:52]All right.

[00:13:57]Proper and proper.

[00:13:59]Yeah, dude. Oh, yeah, let's get these.

[00:14:01]These These are looking like They got to go.

[00:14:07]They're like little chicken nuggets.

[00:14:09]That's awesome. [music] What up?

[00:14:17]>> [music] >> I'm going to do the one-hand harvest.

[00:14:19]Very rare.

[00:14:21]The Haitian harvest.

[00:14:23]>> [laughter] >> That was awesome. That was Robert.

[00:14:29]Yeah, and again, I I'd probably leave those.

[00:14:34]Yeah, let someone else find them. Let's Let's Let some slugs get some morels.

[00:14:40]So rad. Oh, sick.

[00:14:43]Oh, dude, yeah, they're popping off, bro.

[00:14:49]Dude, yeah, yeah, they're popping. Whoa, dude, check these [music] out.

[00:14:56]The big boys.

[00:14:59]Oh.

[00:15:01]Whoa.

[00:15:04]Yeah, those guys Wow, that's still good with a little bit of dried. Yeah, I already would probably just let that one do its thing and leave it. Going to pass the stage. Yeah, same thing with this one. They just look really It's though.

[00:15:23]It's massive.

[00:15:27]It got me pretty hyped.

[00:15:31]Looking for mushrooms definitely reminds me of like skateboarding in a bunch of ways. Like looking for you know, finding spots and [ __ ] Totally the excitement.

[00:15:42]There's actually a spot here in the park that I've been eyeing up. It's super super Yeah.

[00:15:50]>> It's like a It's crazy. So, it's like a a log that fell down into like a bank and another log. It's like a weird and quarter pipe bank like or like a sorry, half pipe looking bank situation Yeah. that drops off from like like a [ __ ] falling log. It's weird.

[00:16:16]Cool. But, it's on the Silver Air It's over Pike Island. Yeah. Oh, it's on Pike Island?

[00:16:21]>> Yeah.

[00:16:23]It's funky. Yeah, let's go up here real quick.

[00:16:26]We're actually Yeah, let's see what's up here.

[00:16:32]>> [music] >> Curious if there's anything popping up over here.

[00:16:38]Keep that thing on me, bro. [music] Keep that thing on me.

[00:16:42]Might have to You know, one time get handsome real quick.

[00:16:48]Just in case [music] I see a deer. It's cool. Yeah, I feel like the dog park is super underrated.

[00:16:56]Yeah, people only go there like if they have a dog, but Yeah, there's mad mushrooms. [music] Let's check this out real quick. There's mad mushrooms that grow there as well. I found a really [music] cool mushroom there called um wrinkled peach mushroom. It's kind of like a rare mushroom.

[00:17:13]Minnesota [ __ ] for sure. [music] >> [music] >> Your two favorite dishes to put morels in? Oh, [ __ ] That's a great question.

[00:17:30]Maybe like a mushroom gravy. [music] Yeah.

[00:17:35]Oh, yeah. I mean, or like a a cream sauce. [music] A mushroom cream sauce and do it with like a nice pasta.

[00:17:43]Um I mean, [music] what's nice about doing like a mushroom gravy though is you can just have it on [music] toast.

[00:17:52]And it's so bomb.

[00:17:54]It's so bomb. Yeah, let's go over here.

[00:17:56]Cutting through [ __ ] There's some more bones.

[00:18:03]Deep, dude.

[00:18:06]>> [music] >> Living life like Animal Crossing and [ __ ] You know, I'm Check that one out.

[00:18:17]Yeah. I might have to bury some money here or something.

[00:18:21]So you can get a money streak [music] going. I could do this forever. Yeah.

[00:18:25]You won't have to work anymore. You could just sell these at farmers market.

[00:18:29]>> Yeah, dude. At the Nook Cranny, bro.

[00:18:31]>> Yeah. That's where I'll be.

[00:18:34]Serving the morels at the Nook [music] Cranny, bro. Holler at me. Shout out to KK Slider.

[00:18:39]I love that dude. Woah, look at these.

[00:18:41]They're vibing. [music] Right there. And then look at that huge one over there.

[00:18:48]Look, it's massive. [music] Yo, KK Slider is like the dog from Animal Crossing.

[00:18:54]>> that guy.

[00:18:55]He sings you that [music] one song that just bangs so hard.

[00:19:00]It's a little [music] dry.

[00:19:02]But I probably manicure that and then have it for myself, probably.

[00:19:08]But yeah, he hits [music] that one song, dude, that you just remember forever.

[00:19:14]Woah, sick.

[00:19:18]>> [music] >> Super thankful.

[00:19:31]Holy [ __ ] [music] dude.

[00:19:36]>> [music] [music] >> Sick.

[00:19:47]>> [music] >> Oh, man.

[00:19:51]I'm super really thankful.

[00:19:53]Yeah, me too, dude. [music] This is This is Oh, all day.

[00:20:01]Dude, again, this is like some Oh, great eye. Damn, there you go. You got the morel eye.

[00:20:10]Oh, there you go.

[00:20:11]>> [music] >> I want to get a photo of that one. Oh, I brought my camera, too. Let me get a flick real quick. This one's a cool one with the flowers and [ __ ] I love this point and shoot.

[00:20:28]I want to get a video, too.

[00:20:30]>> [music] >> Oh, man.

[00:20:35]>> [music] >> Dude, I love springtime so much.

[00:20:40]Look, there's another one tucked over there.

[00:20:42]Oh, there's a few.

[00:20:48]Sick.

[00:20:50]>> [music] >> I'm going to be giving these to my chef homie [music] that's hosting a dinner this week that I'm really excited about.

[00:21:03]It's going to be over at a Mill City Museum.

[00:21:08]And it's to be featuring a lot of mushrooms that I forage and cultivate.

[00:21:12]>> [music] >> Yeah, if you got time, bro, you [music] should come over.

[00:21:19]Um I got some lion's mane I got this huge cluster of lion's mane growing and some cool like uh blue oysters growing in there now.

[00:21:29]>> [music] >> Uh Chef Rochelle, shout out to Chef Rochelle.

[00:21:33]Yeah.

[00:21:34]She's super cool. She said, "Oh, look at this one, dude. Look at the micro."

[00:21:40]Uh quality craft foods, so she [music] cooks quality craft foods, so you know, it works out.

[00:21:48]My hands are ashy, but hey, hear me out, man. It's springtime, bro.

[00:21:53]When you're melanated, you get a little little ashy during this time of the year, but hey, you know, we embrace it.

[00:22:01]When I get home, I'll put on some cocoa butter.

[00:22:04]No, I'm joking.

[00:22:06]I'll put on something now.

[00:22:10]>> [music] >> These are solid.

[00:22:13]Yeah, right.

[00:22:17]>> [music] >> Yeah, dude, these are prime.

[00:22:23]Here's some more over there. So, we host [music] a foray the end of May and like dude, I tell everyone and we we do it over What's funny is we held the foray over there [music] and we didn't even look over here at Button. It's usually toward the end of the end of the month and I tell everyone I'm like, "The reason why we host this foray is to get y'all to come back here and [music] and check this spot out." And uh and then I was like, "Just hit me up if you do cuz I want to go look with y'all."

[00:22:49]But, you know, I really emphasize on that because yeah, this is a great resource [music] to just um find wild foods and like The funny thing about these morels, I >> [music] >> when I first started coming out here I went to the um office and I was talking to one of the people out the front over at the front desk and I was talking about like foraging rules and then [music] I asked about mushrooms and she probably wasn't like uh knowledgeable or cared about mushrooms like that but she was like they don't grow over here. Yeah.

[00:23:24]>> [music] >> Like you know and uh part of me really wasn't >> [music] >> uh interested foraging here because it's so close to the city.

[00:23:34]Because like when I you know usually when I forage I go out like [music] 2 hours an hour and a half at least deep [music] grow yeah uh assuming that right but like >> [music] >> it's kind of mushrooms grow everywhere dude. So you just got to be out there at the right time.

[00:23:52]That's that's what I've learned from uh >> [music] >> few years of like hardcore foraging.

[00:23:59]Yeah cuz these past few years I've been I've had the time [music] to be able to like forage running the mushroom block but like dude like you don't have to go that far.

[00:24:11]Especially when you [music] have right and like especially when you live in the area like Minnesota where >> [music] >> they have a pretty solid like um nature scene there's a lot of um [snorts] trees and [ __ ] like that. A lot of stuff is still preserved.

[00:24:25]I'm sure the St. Croix and like zones like that protected river ways.

[00:24:29]Yeah.

[00:24:31]Really good hot spots. Yeah yeah.

[00:24:35]>> it's just a reminder too [music] as much concrete infrastructure we put down the farther we get from the food coming straight from the Yeah. Exactly exactly. It's all here.

[00:24:46]It's all here and we got to protect it.

[00:24:49]Yeah. We're so lucky to live here cuz like so many other metropolises like take out their nature. Oh yeah big time [music] big time.

[00:24:59]I feel like I'm definitely really lucky to be living here [music] for sure. Like again, originally I'm from Florida and these mushrooms don't grow in Florida.

[00:25:07]So like [music] it's a trip that people live their life and you know, don't experience morels, but that's with a lot of [ __ ] though. But it's to me like this [ __ ] matters. Like I want to try all the cool mushrooms and [ __ ] and you know, [music] see what they taste like. Did you clone morels?

[00:25:26]Yeah, I've actually done done it. I've done it. We could actually [music] do that if we rolled in my crib, I could show you the process. I could I've cultured it though. So I was successfully able to like get a tissue sample from the um morel and then put it on a petri dish and then the mycelium would grow out on the petri dish. Yeah. And then I you know, propagated to grain I propagated it to grain and that's where you know, that worked out, but then trying to fruit it, that's where it got tricky because you know that whole um the whole relationships with trees and plants that they need isn't there, right?

[00:26:06]>> just recreate >> Yeah. necessarily. Right. And so people do it outdoors and stuff. Um Yeah.

[00:26:14]But it's a whole thing. What people do as well as they they'll propagate the mycelium. Yeah. So like how we just harvested that Yeah. they'd probably they'd dig a patch you know, like a whole patch and then bring that to the yard. Sure. Yeah. See like I don't know about all that like but I'd rather just like cut you know, maybe some mycelium and hope that they'll it'll you know, colonize within the substrate, but it's kind of doing the most.

[00:26:44]But it works good with ramps. Yeah.

[00:26:46]Yeah, if you do that with wild leeks which is another thing that grows around this time they'll they'll grow in your yard again, which is really dope. Those Those taste amazing, too, man. If you've never tried them, you should. But, I think the main things to focus on when it comes to foraging is like uh [music] ethically harvesting them, you know, knowing what's toxic, >> [music] >> and um the environments and like seasons and appreciating like what we have what nature has to offer.

[00:27:15]But, when it comes [music] to Unless you're a scientist and that's your intention, I respect it, but I don't think it's that deep [music] when it comes to like foraging. It's not that deep. It's not deep.

[00:27:25]It's pure nature. It is, bro. We've been doing this for ever. [music] It's just like we've kind of disconnect from this when there's a lot of distraction going on in life and >> [music] >> you know, this uh foraging, you know, brings you back and and it just really reminds you again it's it's here. Every Everything we need >> [music] >> is here on um on this on this planet, on [music] this earth here. This land.

[00:27:54]You just lose people, bro. [music] >> Yeah. You get what I'm saying? Like I think like it's There's some [ __ ] that I can't even pronounce, bro.

[00:28:01]Like I'm You feel me? Like that I and I'm just like, "Ah, how am I going to Like is there a different [music] way I could learn this, you know?" And that's kind of what we do is like we just we just try to, you know, normalize it and >> [music] >> make it easy to understand. And I think another another way to make it easy to digest is like cooking, cooking with mushrooms and showing people how delicious they taste. [music] And >> they feel to eat, too. Big time and the effects they give, you know, whether it's gourmet [music] or active ones.

[00:28:34]Yeah. So, you know, an active ones is just a small example of how [music] mushrooms work within your body, right? If you think of active mushrooms more like a superfood, [music] um you know, you would understand all mushrooms have an effect on your body as well. You know, like these mushrooms are packed in vitamin [music] D. Most wild mushrooms in general, right? Like they're getting their their um their light from the sun.

[00:29:01]And that alone is just >> [music] >> pack of pack of uh punch.

[00:29:07]Packs a punch of vitamin [music] D.

[00:29:11]So, it's good. Yeah, I agree.

[00:29:13]These trees [music] won't hold me back.

[00:29:15]These trees won't hold me back.

[00:29:18]>> [laughter] >> You feel me?

[00:29:20]>> [music] >> Look at the moisture like coming out of that mushroom.

[00:29:25]>> [music] >> Mushrooms or most mushrooms are actually actually 90% water. Wow. Yeah.

[00:29:33]Yeah, so like a a great tip for cooking mushrooms is cook them um at like a medium medium heat for [music] like 20 minutes with some salt and get all the moisture out. Yeah, and then fry it up with butter and oil and seasoning.

[00:29:47][music] It's like the easiest way Yeah.

[00:29:50]to like really enjoy them.

[00:29:52]Yeah.

[00:29:53]Oh, you got one right there. Reaching.

[00:29:57]Thank you.

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