Leota “Rose” McKenzie
Nature enthusiasts, campers, hunters, wild edible foragers any one can enjoy this book.
This is a great book with beautiful, full color illustrations that can guide any one through the harvesting of wild edible mushrooms.
Providing a cleaning technique and simple visual recognition of the most commonly collected and marketed Wild Mushrooms from the Pacific Northwest.
Including actual photographs of Mushrooms in their natural habitats and discussion pages with helpful climate, temperatures and geographic locations.
A helpful hints book stuffed with local Geographic Time Tables and lots of “what to look for” clues.
This book was created to help the newest of harvesters to the weekender Bar-BQ King to harvest those Wild Mushrooms that they love to eat but have no idea when and where to look for them.
The mushrooms included, are the most commonly harvested mushrooms from within Douglas County, Oregon and the Pacific Northwest some of these varieties are the Golden Chanterelle, Black Trumpet, Hedge Hogs, Blue Chanterelle, Oregon White Truffle and the Matsutake.
My name is Leota “Rose” McKenzie. I have written several children’s stories and poems. I have an Associate of Arts and an Associate of Science degrees.
I have a small business harvesting & selling Wild Edibles to the local markets.
My husband and I have harvested mushrooms for many years. My husband, David has been a Mushroom Buyer for seven years. During open shop hours we have all helped to teach new harvesters how to harvest, cut and clean Chanterelles and what the other common varieties look like. That became the purpose for this book. My book shows a basic cleaning method and what the most commonly harvested mushrooms, in Douglas County, Oregon look like.
The mushrooms prefer to grow in the warm air currents that flow around the Southern (exposed) sides of the mountains.
This sentence is a correction~ the Southern (exposed) areas was mistakenly not in the book- it was printed as Eastern.
Mushrooms can be harvested in each month of the year. For this area of Douglas County, Oregon I have compiled a list of those mushrooms.
Cut Mushrooms: Morels, Lobster, Oyster, Hedge Hog, Sweet Tooth, Golden Chanterelle, White Chanterelle, Hawk Wing, Cauliflower, Liones Mane, Goat's Beard, Yellow Foot, Black Trumpet, Chicken of the Woods, Pig's Ear, Blue Chanterelle.
"Popped" Mushrooms: Matsutake, Truffles, Boletes.
