The arrival of spring brings with it the finest tasting mushroom in Michigan: The morel.
Reaching a cult-like status among foraging enthusiasts, morels continue to draw increasing interest, luring more and more people into the woods to hunt them down, making these tiny fungi just as coveted, if not more so, as the deer.
Shotguns aside, all anyone needs to pick off some morels is a sharp eye, and a keen sense of what to look for, especially since there are false morels out there to fool you!
When hunting for a true morel mushroom, look for one that is small to large in size with caps that are oblong, cone-shaped, bulbous, or egg-shaped that flow unbroken into a naturally hollow, short, stout stem.