{"id":58925,"date":"2015-10-30T00:08:41","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T07:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=58925"},"modified":"2015-10-30T00:08:41","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T07:08:41","slug":"hear-ye-205","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/58925","title":{"rendered":"Hear Ye!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maryjanesfarm.org\/snitz\/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=21537\">Welcome New Sisters! <\/a>(click for current roster)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maryjanesfarm.org\/snitz\/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=18055&amp;whichpage=334\">Merit Badge Awardees <\/a>(click for latest awards)<\/p>\n<p>My featured Merit Badge Awardee of the Week is \u2026 Kathy Butler-Bebout!!!<\/p>\n<p>Kathy Butler-Bebout (#6691) has received a certificate of achievement in Farm Kitchen for earning a Beginner &amp; Intermediate Level Forage for Food Merit Badge!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had an exceptionally wet spring and early summer here, and have seen many more fungi and mushrooms than usual. My husband, the kids, and I spent an hour looking at the Missouri Dept. of Conservation <a href=\"http:\/\/mdc.mo.gov\/discover-nature\/outdoor-recreation\/mushrooming\/edible-mushrooms\">edible mushroom page<\/a> to confirm that the fungus growing on several dead logs across the creek were edible.<\/p>\n<p>We had success! We correctly identified the fungus as oyster mushrooms.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image aligncenter size-full wp-image-58927\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/oyster_mushroom.jpg\" alt=\"oyster_mushroom\" width=\"432\" height=\"323\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My main areas for foraging are SurePop Farm, 240 acres, 12 miles S of Yellville, AR, on Water Creek in rugged Ozark Mountain terrain, a few miles N of the Buffalo River; and Sunrise Farm, 40 acres of bottom and upland pasture on Greasy Creek, 7 miles SW of Yellville. Sunrise Farm has been cultivated and foraged for generations. I searched there this spring for morel mushrooms in a small, undisturbed area in a sycamore grove on the bank of Greasy Creek. Morels, happily, are one of the easiest to identify because of their &#8220;spongy, Christmas tree&#8221; shape, and the area was relatively free from heavy undergrowth, so they were easier to spot under dead leaves and logs. SurePop is remote and barely cultivated. I targeted the elderberry thicket along the creek, the deep ravine full of dead logs from the &#8217;09 ice storm, and the large flat area overgrown with kudzu on the S side of the farm.<\/p>\n<p>I learned that, for me, the only way to forage for fungi in the off-season is to identify areas with conditions conducive to their growth. I checked these areas periodically through spring, summer, and early fall of 2015. I fell in love with fungi! When the weather turned moist and still, an incredible variety of mushrooms, shelf fungi, puffballs, and the like revealed themselves. I can identify elf&#8217;s ear (not edible), morel, oyster, delicious milky cap, lion&#8217;s mane, and puffballs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image aligncenter size-full wp-image-58928\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/unnamed_fungus.jpg\" alt=\"unnamed_fungus\" width=\"432\" height=\"289\" \/>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome New Sisters! (click for current roster) Merit Badge Awardees (click for latest awards) My featured Merit Badge Awardee of the Week is \u2026 Kathy Butler-Bebout!!! 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