October 2024

Mycoscope

Fall for Fungi

Don't Miss Out!

Intensive Course

For those who wish to deepen their knowledge, we are offering a 2-day intensive course on January 25th and 26th including a 50% discount promo code for any excursion in 2025.

Course

Excursions

With the already announced excursions sold out, here is the first date to put on your 2025 calendar: July 13th. For novices and experienced pickers.

Excursions

Workshops

Picking and growing crash course

In a single day, Sunday October 27th, learn about both picking and growing mushrooms outdoors.

Mushroom cultivation indoors

November 24, learn how to grow successfully a wide variety of species, including specialty mushrooms.

Workshops

October Finds

Sheep Polypore

The sheep polypore, a delicious mushroom, lives in symbiosis with spruce trees. You can often find clusters of them on the ground. In this regard, it differs from other wood-decomposing polypores.

Whitish in color, similar to the more well-known sweet tooth mushroom (Hydnum repandum) and of comparable size, this mushroom features pores beneath the cap instead of spines. With its almond-like taste and firm texture, it is delicious when grilled, breaded, or marinated. Here's a suggestion for preparation.

Dark Honey Fungus

At this time of year, the omnipresent dark honey fungus is impossible to miss. A single specimen can produce thousands of caps and span hundreds of hectares, making it the largest living organism on earth.

A forester's nightmare, these Armillaria species parasitize conifers.

Paradoxically, they are both delicious and plentiful. A staple of Italian cuisine, 'chiodini' mushrooms should be thoroughly cooked. They are also excellent for making marinades.

Corn and Fungi

Huitlacoche

This season, the corn harvest brings us a fungus that is finding its way more and more onto our tables. A pathogen feared by growers, corn smut swells the kernels into a silvery-blue mass that may look disturbing. But this is huitlacoche, a delicacy enjoyed in Mexico for millennia, known for concentrating the sweet flavor of corn. It’s delicious grilled or used in quesadillas.

Corn and mushrooms come together in a variety of applications. Corn is often used in brewing to lighten lagers and ales, and it serves as the main ingredient in chicha, a traditional fermented beverage from the Andes. When it comes to mushroom cultivation, corn stalks and cobs provide an ideal substrate.

Moreover, corn plays a key role in the brilliance of our porcini and black truffle-flavored popcorn, the recipe for which is displayed here.
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