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May 21, 2024
Discover the spectacular fungi explosion in the Blue Mountains, with expert insights and top hunting spots. Join the mushroom adventure!
May 5, 2024
The mushroom picking season opened unusually early this year.
November 18, 2023
An eerie silence hangs over the fogged-filled forest as the dense air clings to my skin.
May 1, 2023
The annual food festival returns to the capital with some old favourite events.
November 6, 2021
The taxpayers of Concord may not realize it, but they own a lot of mushrooms.There’s ghost bolete in Marjorie Swope Park. Slippery Jacks in Morono Park. Dyer’s polypore in the Emerson Tract. And earthballs – lots of earthballs.Those are some of the...
April 9, 2021
Floyd the truffle sniffer. The rich soils of Oberon, 190 kilometres west of Sydney and an hours drive from the Blue Mountains, harbour quite a few delicacies. Apart from wild mushrooms, the area is well-known for the black truffle, although that expensive fellow fungi isnt ready for harvest until the winter months. As a city slicker, I had a lot to learn about foraging, although I did heed instructions and pack a pair of gumboots, a wicker basket and a good knife. ...