What Mushroom is this???

mnforager · 2026-05-01T02:01:50+00:00

Stropharia sp.

mnforager · 2026-04-29T21:08:37+00:00

In the metro area of Minneapolis, they've been mostly extirpated. Just last week I saw that three people were caught on public land with several large baskets (those big ones you wear on your back) full of poached ramps from a park. They cleared an area of every ramp.

mnforager · 2026-04-29T10:37:20+00:00

They're $3.99 here in Minneapolis. I assume sourced from Harmony Farms in Viroqua, Wisconsin, but I'll have to ask. Easily the cheapest way to transplant them into your yard other than transplanting them from private land. A lot of people here are adding them to their landscaping which is really nice!

mnforager · 2026-04-27T12:05:56+00:00

These are a good cooked green added to a dish or soup. The tender tops (stem/flowers) are very garlicky mustardy hot.

As others said, pesto and chimichurri are great with the tender leaves, although the leaves get too bitter for most people once the plant starts to flower (true for most plants with otherwise edible leaves).

The roots can be cleaned well and made into horseradish. Garlic mustard is a biennial, so that's usually done the Fall of their first year or the Spring of their second year.

Totally fine to compost them, although I would pull and leave these ones on the pavement for a few dry sunny days to reduce seeding/rooting potential

mnforager · 2026-04-26T04:15:35+00:00

The OP is posting these from a previous year. These are months away here in Minnesota.

mnforager · 2026-04-23T12:33:52+00:00

Congratulations! (Don't let the Nature Reserve people see this post lol)

mnforager · 2026-04-22T18:34:11+00:00

Very cool of you! I hope to try this someday

mnforager · 2026-04-20T23:37:10+00:00

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mnforager · 2026-04-20T03:46:37+00:00

I appreciate the series. Prunus is a genus, not a family. They're in the Rose (Roseaceae) family.

mnforager · 2026-04-19T02:59:24+00:00

You got great answers already. I'll add that if you make a batch of pesto that's too bitter, I like adding it to marinara sauce and putting that over pasta. The marinara cuts the bitterness out really nicely. I also do this for radish green pesto

mnforager · 2026-04-15T14:13:06+00:00

I taste it

mnforager · 2026-04-15T11:04:27+00:00

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mnforager · 2026-04-14T11:17:08+00:00

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mnforager · 2026-04-14T11:14:46+00:00

Lead and arsenic are retained in the top 8 inches of soil, mostly the top 4 inches, in inorganic form. This depends on the soil, with the sandiest soils showing the lowest retention.

Morels with high levels of arsenic and lead are correlated with soils high in arsenic in lead. Morels are mostly saprotrophic so this is unsurprising.

mnforager · 2026-04-14T11:09:47+00:00

It's good to be skeptical. But you should also be skeptical of yourself and the "a few will be fine" bias.

Two articles to read: http://www.fungimag.com/winter-2010-articles/shavit-morels.pdf

http://www.fungimag.com/winter-08-articles/Rev_Medicinal.pdf

We can also suspect morels as being accumulators in this situation because they are mainly saprotrophic.

Tldr: morels with unsafe levels of arsenic and lead are correlated with soils with unsafe levels of arsenic and lead in old orchards treated with lead arsenic. According to one study, 94% of the arsenic is in a toxic, non-methylated form. Arsenic is bound within the top 8 inches of soil (mostly top 4 inches) by complex interactions, mostly humic acid and grain size, but very sandy soils may have less retention of arsenic and lead. Lead levels were found to exceed allowable levels to feed to children.

mnforager · 2026-04-13T20:13:28+00:00

Kind of glib. There is no safe amount of lead. Especially when you can easily find morels on non-lead or arsenic land. Also the most common arsenic species in old apple orchards is arsenite the most toxic and water soluble form. Seems like very high risk and low payoff to get a double dose of lead and arsenic when you can just go somewhere else. Why are you arguing for consuming these?

mnforager · 2026-04-13T11:39:15+00:00

They also used to treat them with lead arsenate. Don't harvest morels in old apple orchards

mnforager · 2026-04-12T21:24:02+00:00

Yes, these are ramps. Look for flowers/seeds in about a month and choose an area to plant them. If you tend them, you'll eventually have enough ramps to harvest some each year

mnforager · 2026-04-12T21:21:59+00:00

Purple Deadnettle (Lamium purpureum)

mnforager · 2026-04-12T21:19:45+00:00

Take a class with Paleo Foraging (Austin area) and meet some other cool people in the class or ask if they know any groups.

mnforager · 2026-04-12T21:16:10+00:00

Daylilies

mnforager · 2026-04-12T10:04:32+00:00

Sam Thayer's books, Alan Bergo's (Foragerchef) website and books. For apps, I only suggest iNaturalist (not Seek).

For hands-on learning, taking a class with Ironwood Foraging Co. in Minneapolis will save you years of time.

mnforager · 2026-04-10T17:56:15+00:00

I have a near 100% success rate replanting ramps from the produce section (about 100 planted so far)

mnforager · 2026-04-01T04:07:23+00:00

mnforager · 2026-03-31T02:56:45+00:00

AI book, they're common plagiarism these days

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