I've always wanted to gather mushrooms, but haven't known how to learn
which ones were good (safe), and which were bad.

How did you learn???

I live in the Sacramento area. There are a lot of mushrooms, toward
the coast from me.

Myrl



On Oct 15, 8:28 pm, Magdalena Bassett >
wrote:
> A. wrote:
> > I'm still waiting to hear of a single mistake in the Russian branch of my
> > family.
> > Got some 80 year olds (plus) out there, not a single upset tummy, and three
> > generations of mushroom hunters behind them, all doing find.
>
> Same here. I don't know of a single person in my family, or extended
> community, where my parents live, who died from eating poisonous
> mushrooms. I figured it's been at least 17 generations since my family
> landed in Poland and by now the ones with the unobservant genes went the
> Darwin way
>
> I wonder if it's true that good mushroomers are also good proofreaders.I
> see typos as often as I see mushrooms
>
> > Of course, people occasionally make mistakes and pour rat poison instead of
> > salt, too.
>
> Or eat processed food, or meat with hormones, or fishmeal-fed chicken
> meat from farms in China.
>
>
>
> > Would love to know more about exactly where to look - no mushrooms here
> > in SoCal, none when I'm in Utah, either, at least not near where I live.
>
> I picked some in Santa Barbara years ago, but the Northwest is it.
>
> Magdalena Bassett