Some mushrooms love the cool evenings of fall, some even wait for a bit of frost before popping up. Depending on the year, some fall mushrooms start appearing in late August and can carry on through October. Fall mushrooms give us the opportunity to fill our bowls and souls with enough mushrooms to last until the morels show up in spring.

Polypores make for perfect winter finds, since they are with us all season long. The great interest in polypores come from their functional properties. We will learn about our finds, and also about the best known polypores; Chaga, Reishi, Turkey Tail, and others.

Spring brings several delicious mushrooms to the table, but also a few you need to watch out for. The most popular of all the spring mushrooms is the morel. This course will do an especially deep dive into varieties of morels, where and when to find them, and how to prepare the. Morel lunch included.

In Alberta, summer has the greatest variety of mushrooms. It can be quite the challenge to sort out all those tempting mushrooms and confusing look alikes. We focus on about a dozen edible mushrooms you can safely pick, plus teach you to identify a few unexpected ones that we forage along the way.