You Can Eat Any Mushroom Once with Kathy Yerich — WildFed Podcast #115

In this episode:

Kathy Yerich | Forager & co-author of Mushrooms of the Upper Midwest

Podcast discussion:

  • How Kathy got into wild mushrooms

  • Overlap between hunters and mushroom hunting

  • How Kathy gets people started in mushroom hunting

  • On writing a field guide and safety in eating wild mushrooms

  • Using iNaturalist when foraging

  • Fear of mushrooms

  • Tips for getting started in mushroom hunting

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Red Kill Mountain is home to New York state’s largest wild apple savannah. Overlooking the East Branch of the Delaware River is a beautiful hillside covered in wild apples grown from seed.

These apples aren’t the named varieties of grafted clones you get in the store — these are wild, seed-grown apples.

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Meet Kathy Yerich

 
 

A born forager, Kathy Yerich has been intimately involved with mushroom foraging for over 10 years. A proud member of the Minnesota Mycological Society and the North American Mycological Association, she has traveled the country in search of fungi. She has recently started seeing a new side of mushrooms with the discovery of macro lenses. A video producer by day, she is more comfortable behind the camera but recently got a taste of the other side, foraging with “Bizarre Foods” host Andrew Zimmern in a web series called “Appetite for Life.” She lives in Forest Lake, Minnesota, with her potter and mushroom-scout husband Fred and multiple four-legged friends. She is co-author of Mushrooms of the Upper Midwest.

Kathy on Instagram @kathysforay

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