Foraging Maitake Mushrooms
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In the Cherokee language we call them Wisi(wishy). Because my hair is curly like this mushroom my Cherokee name is Wisi.lol
This is awesome, i would love to learn more about the relationship native peoples had with the mushrooms of this beautiful land over thousands of years. Like most things, I'm sure a lot of incredible insight has been lost. Such a tragedy.
So cool that our native and ancestral customs and traditions are still being observed. In Italian, we call it Nasca. We love foraging wild mushrooms!
This is so amazing! I love hearing gems like this!
I can see the genuine excitement on your face when you pulled up that Hen of the Woods. Great video!
I have an oak tree that I estimate is 200 years old in my front yard that these wonderful fungi grow under. Each year I am rewarded with more than I could ever ask for
Im in KCMO and the oak is a Burr Oak if anyone is wondering.
soo lucky!!
John Fry John, love your vids, have a picture of a massive
Mitaki i would love to send you, are you on Instagram or Facebook?
Awesome!
U *probably DON'T HAVE ALOTTA CRITTERS* to get there before U huh> LUCKY YOU+
Hello Freind, You’re my favorite online teacher for everything mushrooms. I love taking you along in my pocket down my favorite forested trails. Your cheerful disposition and passion for life is genuine and contagious!! Thank you! #MomsMushrooms #MushroomFantasies
Well said! And pertinent to us here in Wild & Wonderful WV! Thanks, Adam!
Adam, here in The Berkshires it has been very dry this year so I humped buckets of water out to my best maitake oak tree for the last week of Aug./1st week of Sept. - of the 5 oaks I know can produce Hens this was the only one that did well - 9 Hens each over 4 or 5 pounds! I have 4 food saver bags full in the freezer (it freezes very well), 3 huge jars pickled with black trumpets.
Watering works!
I just found an oak tree with eight hens on it! One was mature and ready to harvest, the others are still babies. We haven’t had any rain for several days, and no rain in the forecast for several more, I was thinking of bringing water to wet the soil so the baby hens don’t dry out and get ruined, but I wasn’t sure if that would help or not 🤷🏼♀️ Then I read your comment and thought maybe it wasn’t such a strange idea 😂
Just had a wet week in The Netherlands, hoping I can find some tomorrow. They are awesome and I've been on a lucky streak so fingers crossed!
I've peered around 1, 127 oak trees in the last two years, and finally found my first one a week ago!
Good for you
Maybe this will be a banner year for. you. I just found (7) growing on a single oak stump that was left from a wind blown (over) tree. After cutting tree I righted the stump so I wouldn't need to fill a hole. Sure am glad I left it now!!
blenderbender, 7 on one tree stump????😳 Wow!!!
@@shanansadler9700 That's what I said..... and just 200 ft. from my door!
1,127? That's very specific number of oak trees. Did you really take the time to count every oak you came across?
Started this foraging journey in mid-March 2020. Morels were the only thing on my radar....then by accident, I discovered Chanterelles in early August. That made me look harder at what might be out there---that along with your videos has put me back in the woods on a weekly basis for the first time since the late-80's, early 90's. The woods any time of year, but especially this time of year, detox the soul. 3 days ago we found our first Maitakes and they just might be my favorite. I recently turned 45 and forage alone, but much of the time I am out with 2 old high school friends. You have been a point of reference for all 3 of us. I hope you understand the positive impact you are having. Cheers
This video made me cancel my grocery shopping plans and my daughter and I are on our way to our sheep head spots now.
This is so cool. We just found some coral fungus in my planting bed while weeding (northern Shenandoah valley of VA). And I’m pretty sure I found a maitake at a local historic church at the base of a red oak. Love your videos.
Found, cooked and ate my first maitake ever and they are amazing. Your videos have been a great help since I’ve decided to start foraging early this year.
Do they have a lot of bugs in them?
Nice!
I haven't found any yet, but my buddies are finding a bunch.
I love your videos. You are a genius! One so young too! I can see you as an old man with many years of accumulating knowledge, under your belt. You are awesome now but you will be an icon when you are old!! What a rare gem you are. Mom, be proud of your son!
My absolute favorite edible shroom, been harvesting them since 74, these have excellent medicinal properties as well.
What awesome content! Thank you!
I absolutely love this mushroom too!
I'm looking forward to looking for some of these with my Amish friend. She's so good at finding edible mushrooms. We have had plenty of rain here in NC
im looking for a amish farm to support in nc care to give up what town or farm?
@@auditpress.crypto well they are near Burlington NC and not actually Amish but its easier than saying they live like amish but aren't associated with any region, but very religious and wonderful people. Super friendly and love visitors. They grow stuff to sell, make peanut butter to sell and do day labor and build/woodworking and even made a few dulcimers. If your still interested and Burlington is close enough, they live on Shoe Rd. which is Huffman Mill rd after it crosses the lake. About 3-4 miles on the right in old White House with a well underba huge oak. You can't miss it lol
Agar queen
Thank you son like your videos
I have learned a lot from your videos. You explain so well.
Great video! Sounds like you had a similar summer season to us in here in Michigan. Very dry, barely any rain. Now we are getting rain almost non stop and everything is water logged haha. Mother Nature is funny like that. I’m hoping I can get out soon and find some goodies. Thanks again!
I love Maitake! I hope I can find a few this season. Thanks for sharing Adam!
Hi Adam. Love your website. My only wish would be for you to visit Colorado some year and walk the woods talking about what can be found there. Next spring/summer can we expect the mycelium to have survived all our wildfires this fall, and produce mushrooms again, or will the forests need to be repopulated? Any advice as to something we should try to do? Try to get some spores/fresh mycelium to plant? It's been so hot and dry here the last few years, I'm not terribly optimistic.
Also, the mountains around Santa Fe are filled with many diverse shrooms during the monsoon season. You'd love it.
----. Gin 💞
Yo shout from Cambria county excellent content you put out.
Could you do a video on how you dehydrate them?
it'a almost too easy.... clean it (them), slice em up and dehydrate. There's absolutely nothing to it. I dehydrate them at 100 deg. F. for as long as it takes to get them cracker crisp..
Yes! Very easy to dehydrate. I like pulverizing them, then add to soups, gravy, etc. Since they are so plentiful--let's face it they're HUGE--There are usually enough to try in just about every other way you'd use any other mushroom as well.
... Learn your land! You make beautiful videos! Thank you!... Concerning mushrooms, what is your opinion of the entheogenic mushrooms? Do you have any in your area?
Aye great man, danny from Scotland here mate.
I love these mushrooms .
I like the harvest of the trash Clean your mile YOU ROCK
We had a large one pop up under our oak tree every year! Super tasty! Thanks for sharing 💚
w0w~only a FEW HOURS & all the VIEWS!+++GOOD FOR U+
*Having a very HARD TIME **_FINDING THEM_* AND in the OAK & MAPLE "FORREST"!
*THANKS for ENCOURAGING ME TO KEEP TRYING!*
Just found my first one today! What are the odds you posted this video same day haha. Happy hunting everyone 🍄🍄
Thank you for this presentation. I need to get out and look. Soon.
Mind sharing where you found these mushrooms?😀 I hiked a lot recently in Western PA mountains but ended up with little luck.
We have chiggers so bad right now even tho its getting colder so if I was to sit on the ground like that...not fun lol
I hate em
I am dehydrating and making mushroom soup while watching mushroom videos. Also from Western Pennsylvania 👍
My wife and I went out 2 weeks ago. So dry. Found a very nice chicken-of-the-woods. Fried it for sandwiches. So good.
So cool, I'll be on the lookout for these in NY. Does seem like there are a lot of hiding spots for insects and critters in those maitake.
Ya you definitely have to do a thorough bit if debugging. Breakem apart, remove any creepy crawlies you can see and then soak the shroom in salted water overnight. Rinse, rinse rinse and you're good to go.
@Harley Mace I soak all my hens in iced water to push all the bugs up. And sometimes my shrimps need a deep clean too. 🤷♀️ imo all it does is take longer to cook out the moisture.
I’m in NY been finding them all over now
Hi Adam, nice video. I just saw a video on the passenger pigeon and it’s role in the population of white oaks in eastern North America. Sounds like something that you could do a video on.
Found my 1st Hen of the Woods mushroom... Easily 10 Lbs
We found out that sasquatch likes the maitake /hens as much as we do. We found another area to search that nothing gets thrown at us . Dang grouchy Pennsylvania Squatches. 💪👁️
Fantastic upload brother man
Beautiful specimens!! Just wanted to thank you for all of your contributions to our beautiful planet, and of course to mycology! I have foraged for years now, and I never miss your videos. Thanks again, keep up the fantastic work!
Thanks for sharing, love your videos my friend! Last year was a bad year where I'm from, but found 4 this year so far, largest being 7.5 lbs! Super happy! Thanks!
Yay those look crazy but I bet they r good
They are delicious! Got some recently, and if you fry them in a pan they honestly kinda remind me of bacon with a mushroomy flavor. Really great with eggs and sourdough
I've been searching for these for a few weeks, I'm in northeast Tennessee and haven't found a single one.
Keep looking! I'm over in Buncombe Co, NC, and found several this week. Good luck!
@@priscillah.3418 That's awesome! I'm going to try Roan Mountain area this weekend. Crossing my fingers!
Great videos thank you great job 👏👏👏👏👏💯
Love your videos, thank you so much for your constant uploads!
Love these maitake, but sadly our woods have been invaded by New Yorkers and it's very hard to find anything decent anymore.
You're so lucky to have access to all of those maitake. It's definitely my favorite mushroom. I have only found them neat HUGE oaks- like at least 3' in diameter. BTW, they also freeze very well. I saute them, and freeze them. Then give them a little more cooking after thawing them. I actually like them "overcooked" a bit. A little browned, and slightly dried out.
Yes, that's how I like most mushrooms, too - it caramelizes the juices and develops the flavor.
Do they have a lot of bugs in them?
@@hap9936 They have hollow areas in the mushroom, so yes, keep an eye out for bugs. I haven't seen bugs actually IN the meat of the mushroom, though.
I happened to stumble upon one of your videos and I am so happy I did! All the videos I have watched so far are so educational and you explain things so succinctly!!
NICE! You found the big one! Thank you for making these videos, I learned a lot!!!
Found a nice one growing out from under a large rock yesterday in NW PA. Had to remove it in pieces, but I am going to enjoy some tonight with Ahi tuna and fresh spinach. I really enjoy your videos and the fact that you are in my area. Thumbs up!
Blessings on your beautiful blond head, Adam! I found about 30 lb of these today, first find ever. And you tipped me off to go looking!
I'm new to mushrooms. I found a big specimen while walking in the woods in MA. I took it home and cut it up and fried it on a pan. It was so amazingly delicious! So thankful I found your videos. While cutting it up I found a tiny salamander like in the video and some black beetles so I put them in a jar and drove them back to the forest to release them. Next time I will cut the mushroom up while I'm still in the forest because I live in a city where the salamander might not survive outside here.
I live in South Eastern MA. Just got back from foraging and found a bunch of Chicken of the woods and Maitake on the same tree!
I noticed it just as I was exiting and saying to my son "guess today just wasn't our day".
@@jamstagerable thats awesome, I went to Blue Hills last year near the southern part of it near route 93. Thats where I found a huge maitake
Is no one going to talk about finding a salamander in the mushroom?
I bought and love the foraging wild mushrooms course... would you offer a course in various tree identifications as well?
Currently working on it!
Do you know of any mushroom-eating bugs that can transmit diseases through their feces or other bodily fluids? I've heard of things like Chagas disease, rat lungworm, and other tropical parasites transmitted by bugs, but I'm wondering if there any similar sicknesses in the northeastern United States. I'm worried about getting sick from eating a mushroom containing a hidden bug, eggs, or germs.
Cooking destroys all parasite viruses and bacteria
I have 80 acre is SW Virginia and because of you Adam I have found many edible species we have a huge cluster of hen of the woods that grows in same location every year about 30-50lbs I have gallons of them dried you helped me to identify, chicken of the woods, chanterelles, pheasant back, and lots of edible boletes, black trumpets, and old man of the woods just to name a few the only thing i cant find is the elusive moral......again thank you Adam for teaching us this long lost food source .....I just love your personality
I've been collecting morels for a couple of decades, but I haven't found anything else around here. Gets too dry just after the spring floods. I had some inky caps came up in the yard one year and then never again. And yes, I left some to spore. The woods here has only about half the species of trees as I was used to in Southern Indiana only 100 miles to the west and both in the Ohio River Valley.
Gallons of them dried? Maybe sell them!
Oh my gosh that is sooooo beautiful ❤️😁😁😁❤️
Mmmm ... maitake might be my favorite! I have been hunting for them. I’ll have to post some recipes. Thanks for the videos
I found a big one yesterday and 15 that were mush, it’s getting to cold up here for hens now I think, but if it warms up for a few days will they come back out? My first year
I was wondering when you see them just popping up how many days would you suggest let pass before checking to see if harvestable
That cuts it. I just need a field guid to mushrooms.
Awesome find!! Walking my dog yesterday and came across a few small ones I left behind to hopefully get a little bigger. I did pick a nice batch of shaggy ink caps tho. Keep the great videos coming and best wishes to you and yours! ✌🤟🙂
My best day for hens was 14. Only kept one, it was enough for me and a couple famy members. A wet early fall usually results in an exceptional crop.
where were you in this video? I hope to visit it in the future
Great video man been making videos this week myself pickling them feel free to check it out
I'd love to see this style of video but for honey mushrooms. I've been seeing A. mellea everywhere lately.
Is it possible to find reishi around oak. If not, ive got somethin else I guess.
Absolutely beautiful specimens, still looking for my first
Hi Adam, thank you for sharing your knowledge and harvest. My son and I went out the other day and harvested 4. Great tasting mushroom. Thumbs up to you. 👍
Liked and commented to give you some more traction! Thanks for the knowledge and the love you show for what you do.
Pack it in, pack it out folks!
I have tried in my neck of the woods and yet to find Hen of the Woods
Awesome. The same thing happened to me today. Was out in North Park going for a run and ended up harvesting a GIANT maitake, maybe 18 pounds. Amazing!
Of course I left you a 👍.
I JUST saw a bunch of these today, but didn’t know what they were. Thank you so much for the info! I’ll be going back to harvest a few later :)
Lucky you appreciate your bounty don't let any go to waste
random chicks music i have 20 minutes worth of videos to watch later to make sure I know the different methods to freeze and store. Want to make sure it lasts!
Been watching your back catalog. All great videos, thank you so much.
You are ageing well, and continue to make great videos for us foragers.
What is your favorite way to prepare your Hens? I've gotten several pounds of "cleaned" mushroom and looking for recipes to try out.
I fry mine in onions and garlic and butter
Fry small sections in olive oil or bacon drippings until starting to crisp around edges,add some minced garlic and fresh thyme.
Great on sourdough toast,perhaps with a fried egg on top
There's maitakes in my back woods, can you recommend a cleaning technique for them?
If they're fresh and in good shape they are relatively stout and can take a good strong hosing to remove the big stuff such as dirt, grass, pine straw, etc. I blast mine with full setting on nozzle. Unless they are really gritty and full of ingrown grass & weeds, this cleans em up enough to bring into kitchen. I break apart into smaller pieces and just rinse under running water. Maitake do not absorb water like lots of other mushrooms and are easy to get to clean up.
@@blenderbenderguy Thanks for the tips, it's good to know they aren't absorbent like CotW.
Wow! Jackpot :-)
Great mushroom. Great video.
okay, so I found about same size of the Maitake and I tried to fry it but turn out very tough and absolutely not edible.
Can you tell me why? Thank you.
We have an old white oak right next to our house that usually grows one or two hens every year. I haven't seen them yet this year, even with all the rain we have had recently... I hope they will come up, but we do still have some dehydrated mitake from 2 years ago.
Speaking of mushrooms I wonder whycum they don't make motor oil fluorescent blue so you can see better on the dip stick?
I call it mushroom Karma....I go for conditioning hikes without a thought of harvesting and....bam....mushrooms a-go-go.....
Wow it's beautiful! Amazing video as always.
Are you native to SWPA? I'm in Armstrong County near Apollo. I would like to make friends with some local botanical foraging and Mycology experts to learn hands on. Any recommendations? -Larry
Found some over the last week in nw Ohio!!! Happy hunting!! Check out my channel I have some shroom videos if your interested. I just started doing them.
I grew up in Western MARYLAND. I'm guessing you are south west of PITTSBURGH. Every time I watch your videos I feel at home. After all were on the same mountain range and less than a hundred miles apart.
OK, so why can't YT allow us choose UK v USA VIDS? I don't want to view USA. Am I missing something? No offence to the poster.
I'll be looking,I'm going to hampshire county W.V. tomorrow.Very close to you.I wish we'd get some real rain though,it would help I'm sure.
I got pulled over after foraging one day. The maitakes I had were so dank the cop didn’t believe there wasn’t weed in the car. After an hour of searching he apologized and just wrote me a warning for speeding. I wasn’t even mad, just amused.
Adam it is because of you that I started looking for edible mushrooms in my woods. This fall I have found five different kinds of mushrooms that are edible.
My problem is.... I’m afraid to try them. I know the usual route is start very small, never raw. The usual way I cook store-bought mushrooms is to slice them and sauté in olive oil. I suppose I could do that with the wild ones I find. I hope you or another commenter can suggest a way to go.
Wow! So awesome! Yeah, my experience too…out enjoying and bam, mushrooms appear! ❤️👍🏾
Cool! I just watched your last video on this yesterday! :)
I'm gonna move to PA so your videos will be more relevant to me
I wish you had some PNW videos!
Maybe Astoria area so you can teach people how not to pick posionous mushrooms while hunting for psilocybin containing ones ... We have poisonings over here every once in a while because people hunt for Azurescens and pick Galerina instead
Shrimp of the woods is plentiful here in eastern Ohio right now. Picked a couple pounds yesterday and left plenty.Unfortunately didn't see any hen of the woods.Love the videos I use to only hunt morels and puff ball. Until I found your channel. Thks for opening my mushroom world.
They are beautiful I hope I find some. Ty Adam. Do you have a website? Would love to know if you come were I am adirondacks upper NY state
I harvested 4 large hen-of-the-woods at the base of an oak tree on my front "lawn" in Smithtown NY. I get fruiting bodies most years in October.
In NW Iowa we mostly have bur oak, and that's where find our maitakes...usually mid to late August.
100%; dry, haven't even tried stomping for foxfire honey mushrooms but they don't dry-store half as nice