Mushrooms are everywhere!

But which ones are good to eat?

By Forrest Whitman

We’re coming to the end of a good mushroom hunting summer. There will still be some mushroom blooms, though, and avid hunters haven’t put away their mushroom knives just yet. Actually a few varieties fruit best in the cool nights of September. Last week I went out hunting with a member of the Mycological Society and the Denver Botanic Gardens. She’s been hunting and eating mushrooms for many years and is a real expert. She’s also an old friend of the author of what many call the definitive mushroom book, Mushrooms of Colorado by Vera Stucky Evenson. That’s a good book to take along. As we ambled along we chatted about many of the current issues in mushroom land.