It's been about 2 week since the big find...so she finally gave me permission to share.
Have you ever eaten wild sponge mushrooms?
My mom loves to hunt for them after wet, rainy spring days. At least this weather has been good for something!
My brother found the biggest patch we've ever, ever, ever found while out fixing fence one day.
He called my mom to come help pick them and bring containers to put them in. They took Sissy with them.
In less than 30 minutes, they had picked a perfect 10, beautiful pounds of some of the biggest, most perfect and beautiful sponge mushrooms I've ever seen.....
So many that we couldn't eat them all if we wanted to.
I mean, can you imagine 10 pounds of mushrooms?? In case you're wondering, that's enough to fill both sides of your kitchen sink.
So we took some to the auction. 10 pounds of mushrooms is apparently equal in value to about 10 large bales of hay for the stock. Who knew?
that's awesome that they found so many of them. i remember hearing stories of people out hunting and only finding a few. My parents have some that grow right in their back yard. What luck?!?!?
ReplyDeletewell you can hunt here too...
ReplyDeleteSo jealous. Our weather was terible for mushrooms this year!
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