Your early 2026 Schedule

Excursions

Lace up your boots for next year and get ready for adventure! Join our expert guides on an extraordinary wild mushroom foraging experience.

Just a short drive—less than 120 km from Montreal—you’ll step into a world of discovery and enjoy a full immersion in the beauty of our forests.

Already on the calendar for next July:

Saturday, July 11, 2026 in the Eastern Townships

Sunday, July 19, 2026,  also in the Eastern Townships

Each outing includes a guided walk, a hands-on identification session with your harvest, and a tasting experience. Reserve your spot now for one of these unforgettable days of learning and fun!

Take it to the next level

Enjoy exploring the great outdoors? Fascinated by mushrooms? Ready to master the art of wild foraging?

Join us on the path to becoming a true Mushroom Hunter/Gatherer—an adventurer of the forest!

This class is in French with bilangual support.

Our intensive course on January 24–25, 2026, plus one foraging excursion during the 2026 season, is the perfect opportunity to:

  • Identify our species: Master identification, from the finest edibles to the most toxic.

  • Understand the science: Dive into ecology and sustainable harvesting techniques.

  • Go professional: Learn regulations, handling, preservation, and strategies for marketing wild mushrooms.

Whether your goal is to lead mycotourism groups, sell wild mushrooms commercially, or simply deepen your passion, this course is your next step forward.

Mushroom Cultivation Workshop

On Sunday morning, March 1, 2026, a Mycoboutique expert will share their passion and expertise. You’ll learn proven techniques to cultivate several popular varieties such as oyster mushrooms, shiitake, and lion’s mane. Whether indoors (buckets, grow bags) or outdoors (logs, garden beds), you’ll discover how to maximize your harvests.

The workshop ends with a hands-on activity—and you’ll leave with mushroom mycelium to kickstart your own cultivation!

Morel Cultivation

Morels are among the most sought-after mushrooms, the kind everyone wants to grow. After years of trial and error, the cultivation method is finally perfected. Seed now, before the ground freezes, for a spring harvest!

This month only, the price of our kits is reduced from $35 to $26.25.

Don’t miss it!

Rain at last!

Although rainfall has been rare since mid-July, late-summer mushrooms are appearing, and their numbers should grow with the recent showers. Two species in particular have recently thrilled our hikers—they’re easy to identify, abundant at the end of summer, and edible.

Shrimp of the woods

The shrimp of the woods (Entoloma abortivum) is a gray-brown mushroom with pale pink gills. It grows on hardwood debris or leaf litter, often beside another fungus, the honey mushroom (Armillaria ostoyae). It’s not recommended to eat the entoloma until it has infiltrated its neighbor, transforming it into a misshapen white ball. Inside that deformity lies a culinary treat with the aroma of freshly milled flour. It’s nicknamed shrimp of the wood for its shape, texture, and rosy flesh. It is, in fact, the star of our salmon and aborted entoloma vol-au-vent recipe.

Resinous polypore

The resinous polypore (Ischnoderma resinosum) is a recent addition in the kitchen. It has lightly anise-like aroma. It spreads its dark-brown fan across hardwood trunks. Fleshy, it’s best eaten young when tender, like other edible polypores; as palatable as the more familiar chicken-of-the-woods (Laetiporous sulphureus).

Readings for Uncertain Times !

The End of the World

In these troubled times, numerous works explore the essential role of fungi in our future. Paul Stamets launched the series back in 2005 with Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World.

In The Mushroom at the End of the World, Anna Tsing presents the matsutake as the likely survivor of our environmental challenges. Published in 2017 and still relevant today, the anthropologist examines this emblematic mushroom and, above all, the communities of foragers who make a living from it.

The Apocalypse

In her recent book Les champignons de l’apocalypse, Audrey Dussutour reveals the remarkable diversity and resilience of fungi, showing how these tiny powerhouses can both help and harm. While most risks target plants and cold-blooded animals—since fungi generally can’t survive human body heat—immunocompromised individuals remain vulnerable.

Looking to the future, global warming raises new questions: could mutations allow pathogenic fungi to adapt to human bodies? Insightful, timely, and eye-opening, this book is a must-read for anyone curious about the hidden world beneath our feet.

Frequently Asked Question

Is the mushroom I picked edible?

The answer to such a question requires some thought: there is no universal marker of edibility—neither color, texture, nor shape. The devil is in the details. In our area, a dozen species are known to be deadly poisonous and, among them, white amanitas responsible for 90% of fatalities worldwide. Know your mushrooms before eating! Our experts can provide assistance in our shop or on excursions.

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