You guys are the only people I will be buying my morels from simply because of the care you take while harvesting. I can't thank you all enough for not selling us wormy, nasty ass shrooms. It also means alot that you guys are professional and care about what others think of ya. keep up the hard work, it's not unnoticed.
Sorry about the diversities that you all encountered in the 2023 season. To remain generous and thoughtful towards others theough this is a testament to the quality of people that you are. Good on you.🥂
Absolutely like your videos advice you give keep doing them if you can. I'm 38 bin picking senc I cud walk in michigan an Tennessee the last 8 years. I've always wanted to go to the rockies and pick the Burns. Last 2 years not good out her but This last Spring was awesome. I need to Get my passport And come up.
I'm 52 been picking since I was 4 years old ❤. Love your channel ❤. Because of health issues it's hard to get out. However I have a few locations I can still go to.
You guys work your butts off for those morels. Appreciate chronicling your journeys. I Have a bag that came yesterday of your dried morels. Can't wait to give them a try.
I'm still very much enjoying your videos. The amount of effort you expend is astounding. Much respect to Phil, Randy, Alec and Alex! Very much looking forward to sampling some of your hard earned morels and pine mushrooms that arrived earlier this week, along with sample packets of lovely dried winter Chanterelles. Thank you! I forage a lot of wild edible mushrooms out here in Southwest Virginia, so me actually buying mushrooms is quite rare LOL!
Wow, always means a lot when other foragers try our products so thanks. The morels and winter chanterelles rehydrate really well and they are fast. The pines need longer to reconstitute. I like hydrating them and then marinating them for a while before cooking.
One of the best things about your vlogs are how nice you all are. Sorry the seasons hasn't been a good one, but you have educated at least me about mushrooms, commercial harvesting and its wonderful to see the Yukon. Its my sort of place - maybe not in winter.
Thanks Phil, Randy, Alex and Alec, have enjoyed every video of the 2023 season and hope the 2024 season was much better. This was my second season of watching and look forward to the next. Being nice to people is always a good thing, harvesting mushrooms or not.
Thanks for explanation of the biology. We don't have fire morals that I know about in New Zealand as fire isn't really part of our ecosystems. We do get exotic morels in urban areas, although very rare, and our indigenous beech (Nothofagus) but they are thumb sized and appear solitary. Back to the biology you mention fruiting bodies use wind and animals to spread the spores. I would also suggest that insects are a significant vector of spores. Spores must attach to the insects after pupation. I don't know if they pupate in the fruiting body or drop out onto the ground. But either way spores numbers would be very high upon exciting as the fruiting body would have produced most of their spores at that stage.
Well it was a tough year for you guys, Hopefully the 2024 season was much better. Phil, your information sharing has been great this year, I have learned much since I began watching your vids a couple of years ago. Next year I am hoping to begin a quest for the elusive greenie.
So, Iowa has a great, but short season of awesome morels- unless the weather is bad- too cold, or too dry spring. They love dead elm trees- which we have tons of- but our woodlands are smallish- due to farmlands. I know people that have great hunting areas- they literally sneak to and be careful nobody follows them to discover their stash. Dutch elm disease wiped out the big elm trees in the 60's and 70's- the good news is the elms are repopulating- but once they get 30 years old, they die from Dutch elm disease- but that's ok, 30-year-old dead elms still encourage beautiful morels. Love your channel.
We had a similar situation with many of the white pine trees in Western Canada being killed by white pine blister rust followed more recently by lodgepole pine being killed by pine beetle. Thanks for the great comment
Beautiful mushrooms 🍄 I'm so looking forward to Friday to watch you and the guys. Your comradery between you all and the little jokes and Beautiful Sights is awesome. Was gonna ask what's the lowest you've heard of or picked forest fires at, elevation wise. Thanks again🙏
Randy had been doing it since the 1980’s, around when commercial morel harvesting really got going in Canada. Because of that I grew up picking, helping at the buying station and farmers markets until over a decade ago when I started doing it more seriously.
As always, love your videos! Hope this next season treated you all better. Hey Phil Is it possible to dry Morels using just a carboard box with low sides, and, or, a brown paper bag with regular airflow from a fan, for a small personal find of a couple of pounds at a time? I've just never tried it yet so I figured I'd ask...
Yep for sure. You can even dry morels out in the sun if the weathers good and they aren’t too mature. Ideally you allow airflow on all sides of the mushroom but if it’s just a few lbs then spread out in a box with a fan blowing across them should be fine.
Most of the fire required walking through multiple kilometres of re-burn, which is horrible to walk through. Technically we could have but because we were seeing wormies it wasn’t worth it
You guys are the only people I will be buying my morels from simply because of the care you take while harvesting. I can't thank you all enough for not selling us wormy, nasty ass shrooms. It also means alot that you guys are professional and care about what others think of ya. keep up the hard work, it's not unnoticed.
Thank you for that. Our general rule for harvesting is this: if I wouldn’t eat it, I won’t pick it!
You all do amazing work. Your knowledge leaks out of you and oozes into all your viewers appreciate the lesson I love foraging
Sorry about the diversities that you all encountered in the 2023 season. To remain generous and thoughtful towards others theough this is a testament to the quality of people that you are. Good on you.🥂
Enjoy all the videos Thank you
late watching guys,,from Perth Australia❤❤❤
Appreciate y'all! 🔥🍄🍻
Absolutely like your videos advice you give keep doing them if you can. I'm 38 bin picking senc I cud walk in michigan an Tennessee the last 8 years. I've always wanted to go to the rockies and pick the Burns. Last 2 years not good out her but This last Spring was awesome. I need to Get my passport And come up.
I'm 52 been picking since I was 4 years old ❤. Love your channel ❤. Because of health issues it's hard to get out. However I have a few locations I can still go to.
You guys work your butts off for those morels. Appreciate chronicling your journeys. I Have a bag that came yesterday of your dried morels. Can't wait to give them a try.
Sometimes we literally do 😂 thanks, hope you enjoy them!
I'm still very much enjoying your videos. The amount of effort you expend is astounding. Much respect to Phil, Randy, Alec and Alex! Very much looking forward to sampling some of your hard earned morels and pine mushrooms that arrived earlier this week, along with sample packets of lovely dried winter Chanterelles. Thank you! I forage a lot of wild edible mushrooms out here in Southwest Virginia, so me actually buying mushrooms is quite rare LOL!
Wow, always means a lot when other foragers try our products so thanks. The morels and winter chanterelles rehydrate really well and they are fast. The pines need longer to reconstitute. I like hydrating them and then marinating them for a while before cooking.
One of the best things about your vlogs are how nice you all are. Sorry the seasons hasn't been a good one, but you have educated at least me about mushrooms, commercial harvesting and its wonderful to see the Yukon. Its my sort of place - maybe not in winter.
The 23 season was ok. Glad you were able to learn what we share... knowing that is very rewarding for us.
The Yukon is a wonderful place.
Thanks Phil, Randy, Alex and Alec, have enjoyed every video of the 2023 season and hope the 2024 season was much better. This was my second season of watching and look forward to the next. Being nice to people is always a good thing, harvesting mushrooms or not.
Agreed! Thank you
👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️😎😎😎
Thanks for explanation of the biology. We don't have fire morals that I know about in New Zealand as fire isn't really part of our ecosystems. We do get exotic morels in urban areas, although very rare, and our indigenous beech (Nothofagus) but they are thumb sized and appear solitary. Back to the biology you mention fruiting bodies use wind and animals to spread the spores. I would also suggest that insects are a significant vector of spores. Spores must attach to the insects after pupation. I don't know if they pupate in the fruiting body or drop out onto the ground. But either way spores numbers would be very high upon exciting as the fruiting body would have produced most of their spores at that stage.
Well it was a tough year for you guys, Hopefully the 2024 season was much better. Phil, your information sharing has been great this year, I have learned much since I began watching your vids a couple of years ago. Next year I am hoping to begin a quest for the elusive greenie.
Thank you! Appreciate your comments. I filmed some nice greenies in next weeks vid 👌
So, Iowa has a great, but short season of awesome morels- unless the weather is bad- too cold, or too dry spring. They love dead elm trees- which we have tons of- but our woodlands are smallish- due to farmlands. I know people that have great hunting areas- they literally sneak to and be careful nobody follows them to discover their stash. Dutch elm disease wiped out the big elm trees in the 60's and 70's- the good news is the elms are repopulating- but once they get 30 years old, they die from Dutch elm disease- but that's ok, 30-year-old dead elms still encourage beautiful morels. Love your channel.
We had a similar situation with many of the white pine trees in Western Canada being killed by white pine blister rust followed more recently by lodgepole pine being killed by pine beetle. Thanks for the great comment
I hope you guys are killing it up there right now! ☀️🍄🟫🏕🍄🔥🤙
Thanks for always bringing us along on the adventure! 🌲🍄🟫
Hope this year is better for you and the weather is cooperating.
Absolutely nice video.
Beautiful mushrooms 🍄 I'm so looking forward to Friday to watch you and the guys. Your comradery between you all and the little jokes and Beautiful Sights is awesome. Was gonna ask what's the lowest you've heard of or picked forest fires at, elevation wise. Thanks again🙏
Haha cheers. Sea level but those burns tend to have way more issues with bugs. Higher elevation often has nicer quality
How long have y’all been doing this? Your knowledge about what you harvest is very interesting to hear about. Thanks!
Randy had been doing it since the 1980’s, around when commercial morel harvesting really got going in Canada. Because of that I grew up picking, helping at the buying station and farmers markets until over a decade ago when I started doing it more seriously.
I love your videos, is it too late to get a few morels for a dinner, I live in Kamloops, I lived in CR in the 80s
Hard to say but there’s probably still some out near ross moore lake or high elevation near adam’s lake here and there.
As always, love your videos! Hope this next season treated you all better. Hey Phil Is it possible to dry Morels using just a carboard box with low sides, and, or, a brown paper bag with regular airflow from a fan, for a small personal find of a couple of pounds at a time? I've just never tried it yet so I figured I'd ask...
Yep for sure. You can even dry morels out in the sun if the weathers good and they aren’t too mature. Ideally you allow airflow on all sides of the mushroom but if it’s just a few lbs then spread out in a box with a fan blowing across them should be fine.
@@northernwildharvest good point, will try to get a screen for next year then, thanks!
@Ephesians617 once you start the drying dont stop until they are dehydrated. Stopping the process, like over night will effect the quality.
@@randym8963 duly noted, thanks!
9:23 Why can’t you walk to the majority of the 3300 hectares? Is it swampy or something similar?
Most of the fire required walking through multiple kilometres of re-burn, which is horrible to walk through. Technically we could have but because we were seeing wormies it wasn’t worth it