Tips to foraging for mushrooms Thanksgiving weekend
CBC
If you're looking for a unique outdoor experience this Thanksgiving long weekend and want to contribute something to a family meal for next to nothing, you might want to try foraging.
More people have started foraging for food like wild mushrooms in recent years, according to Dennis Vidmar, owner of the Mush Hub Co. in Windsor.
Vidmar spoke to Afternoon Drive Thursday about some of his tips for finding the best fungi and staying safe while you do it.
Vidmar said last year, the foraging season came to an end around the second or third weekend in October, but he wasn't sure if it might go a bit longer this time around.
"That's the beautiful part is that you never know, right? It's all based on different environmental factors," he said.
"How it looks like now with the recent rainfall that we received, maybe that's even going to push further."
He also said mushrooms have been more scarce this year because more and more people are picking up the pastime, which brings us to his next point.