THE MOREL MUSHROOM: SOUTHERN INDIANA GOLD
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- Опубліковано 15 кві 2024
- The pursuit of the legendary morel mushroom, has produced lots of memories, lots of folklore, but always a great time! This film explores how to find them, how to cook them, and the traditions surrounding this annual April event. A true part of the Southern Indiana experience!
About 35 yrs ago, not long after moving into a new house (no longer there) I was on the phone with my mother. I looked out the kithchen window (east and next to a large Elm) and saw several Morels 😮 Just there in my yard! I wound up with over a dozen good size. Personally, I'm not a mushroom eater but, I think their interesting and take a lot of pictures. My parents and husband enjoyed the shroom feast 😊 I continued to find Morels for a few more years after that, including a couple other places in the yard. Quite extraordinary and fun 🙂
Had a friend that had them growing in their front yard. Another told me about sitting at a park bench, outside a rest stop, and they were growing underneath it! You never know where you’ll find them! 🙂
I have good childhood memories of mushroom hunting. My Dad, an older friend of ours, and I would go hunting on horses. The old friend rode a pony and seemed to find more than us. The joke was that his pony could smell the mushrooms. I wish my kids could have had those days.
Great video. Thank you for the yummy Indiana morel memories. Those small morels are so tasty. It was so nice to live near someone who had their own private morel patch. I never had to hunt them only prepare, eat, and enjoy. Yummy, yummy.
When I was a kid we wouldfill 50 gal plastic bags with those mushrooms i lived on a farm in martinsville indiana
One year, I went to Brown County with a friend. I found one mushroom in three hours, him zero. So we went somewhere else, a few miles away. Three guys we met on the trail had 50 pounds bags, filled to the top with morels. We thought we were about to have a great mushroom day, but I believe those guys found every mushroom in the valley! 😂
I grew up hunting them with my Dad, I lost him a few weeks back but I'll always have the memories
Adventures With Roger: Southern Indiana Gold! No wait, Morels... my bad.
Man, first comprehensive history videos, now this... thanks Roger!!
We always look in our woods. Fun times especially when you find them.
Like a treasure hunt! And after the first person finds one, EVERYONE gets excited. 🙂
Family ❤ Amanda, Bailey, Rosa and Tiffany.... I love my girls. Mom and dad.....I miss you ❤️
headed to our perry county farm this weekend to harvest another feed. found first batch of blacks on easter sunday this year.
My brother is back home, hunting mushrooms, in Southern Illinois. Im stuck in West Texas, missing the entire mushroom season. From the looks of it, im going to miss the Strawberry season, too.😔
Whats really weird, is that I have lived in Alabama for the past 30 years, and even tho they grow there, not one soul has ever heard of them! Man, they just dont know what they've been missing out on!
Many good memories of mushroom hunting with my Dad in Floyd & Harrison counties! We’d then take them home and cook them up Southern Fried! Good times!
The mention about the snake 🐍 under the May apples made my husband and I both laugh 😆 If I happened upon one of those, my hunt would be over real quick! Yikes! 😳
Great video Roger! 👍🏼👍🏼
I was out scouting for filming locations, when I found several morels. A few minutes later, a local guy came by, and we spoke for a good while about mushroom lore, family and legends. Had not even occurred to me before, to make a mushroom video. 🙂
One of the local news channels had a morel mushroom the size of a 2 liter bottle. I used to hunt them myself until I lost my ability to walk.
That’s a giant!
Literally, my childhood 😭
I have found almost 50 lbs. since April 1st here in northeast Tennessee. Going out today to check a couple more spots before they disappear. This was an average year for me and not a bumper crop like some years in the past.
Not grocery bags when we were kids. Bread sacks. LOL
Miss hunting them in Lawrence County. My father in law still goes, he's 83.
This video brought back memories of my one and only mushroom 🍄 hunt.
👍👍Hey Roger!
I've found many around shagbark hickory trees
They came and went faster than normal this year up here in north eastern Indiana, but they were still just as good as ever. My one family member found over 2,000.
Watch the dandelions each spring. If the dandelions are coming out, then so are the morels.
When the dandelions are going away, then that means the morels are in their really good yellow stage but going away, too.
(2024)
Southern Indiana seemed to have a boom year, pretty huge ones too
I'm your neighbor in SW Ohio---we do the morel thing here too. I was hoping your video would include a warning about "false morels" and how to tell the difference. But, it was a very nice video---and I agree with how wonderful it is to create family memories.
Omygoodness. This video is perfect. I could agree with everything. Thank you for all you do.
I have 40 acres in Lawrence county and have never found one there. Of course, that hasn't stopped me from still hunting them...lol
Love finding them...not so much eating them, but my family loves them, so I guess thats a win.
Oh how I miss these. They are so good.
I've spent my life in the country and rural areas, but the only time I found mushrooms was when I accidently turned into an alley in the ghetto. It was near downtown Indy, and there were hundreds of them.
I found some behind a church, wasn’t even looking for them. Another guy parked at a McDonalds, got some good, and went outside to eat. They were all around a picnic table, on the city.
I remember little mushrooms in southern Indiana. I would tap them and clouds of spores would fill the air.
Puff balls?
great sauteed in butter and mixed with pasta!!!
I’ve not had it that way, but it sounds great!
Just paid $40 for a pound!!! cooked in butter with head cheese and scrambled eggs. found 2 once, 1 was 17 in. the other 16 inches, they were shown on the local tv station. 1994
Very nice Roger.
Another Great Video ! Keep up the good work
Excellent work as always Roger thanks for sharing!!
We are out looking now! There is plenty of good weather!
I have lived in Southern Indiana for years, l like history and the outdoors. Great job and work on your videos. Thank You!
My pleasure, Kevin!
Another great video. Thank you, Roger! Hoping to find some this year. Good luck!
My cousin found over 50 today. I think it’s a good year! 🙂
I found 3 of them in my back yard yesterday. 50 would be the score of a lifetime.
And terrific eating, no less!
My boss lives up past milltown, the blue river is basically his backyard. He has found a morel goldmine. Just this week alone he’s found almost 50. Not sure if it’s a leprechaun playing tricks or what but I’m hoping to go there this weekend and help him find a few more 👍
They are popping up all over the place, it’s a good year!
Great video , brought back good memories and a "Delicious Taste" , Thank-you ❤❤❤
Great interesting takes on the Hoosier state, nu subscriber here!
Welcome to the adventure, John! 🙂
I loved this video! We have hunted the morel here in Michigan too!! What a great Childhood you have had! I love my adventures here in our state too. Miss the old relatives and visiting the farms. Thanks for the great information. I think I will go look in our woods today!
I loved this episode!
My mom and my son used to hunt them. Both are gone now.
I never could see them unless they were huge. They said I stepped on a couple, so I left it to the professionals.
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Dear Roger,
Very nice footage from a Morel mushroom. I live in the Netherlands and in my area i know a place where Morels grow. Not much, just a couple of them and those mushroom are in symbiotic with a very niche kind of funghi. In our country grows 3 species of the Morel and 2 of them are on the RedList class 5.
you have a great channel and you have another subscriber as well, respect! 🙂
Hi Ed! What’s the season for morels, where you live? Here, it’s around the second week of April, until the end of the month.
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Hiya Roger, the season for Morels ( Morielje in dutch ) in the Netherlands is from half April till the last week of May. ( Y )
@edcornwall8700 I’d heard that morels were also a big deal in Europe, but had never known anyone that hunted them. Thank you for giving me a new insight. 🙂
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My land has one little 5 acre area that has these. All my land is wooded, but they only grow in the one area. This is just outside of Columbus. I’m not a fan of mushrooms, so I let me neighbor harvest them.
My friends father had heart problems and couldn’t walk very far. Him and I would drive through Yellow Wood and the Hoosier National. He could spot a mushroom as we eased down the gravel road. He’d send me out and try to tell me where it was. He was great at spotting them but gave terrible directions. I miss Dave and those trips.
Sounds like wonderful memories! I sure wish I could score a real mushroom scope, I walk right passed them!
Another great video Roger.i set up my own UA-cam channel.its called Mel Mayhem and has a picture of a brown pit bull.only got 3 videos up so far.still learning how to do and gotta learn how to edit properly,Mel from Australia 🇦🇺
Hopefully, I have e a successful hunt on Friday.
I live in Southern Indiana and I don't think I've ever seen one
This seems to be a good year. I found two without trying. My cousin found over 50 today! Under the mayapples are where to start!
@@AdventureswithRogerthank you! I have found everything besides morells
@@AdventureswithRogerI look for the may apples .. the morels are camouflaged much like a snake. But I know if I kind find a mayapple, I've got better odds of finding a morel
We hunted them every year as kids! Yes, look under Mayapples is what we were told
We called them christmas tree mushrooms
The bags don't seem to make much of a difference...they always show up eventually. 😂😂
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Can you do a series on the Silver mine 10 miles North of Jasper. It operated in 1887. Please.
Not familiar with that story. What do you have?
My spots are in my will...js
I don’t blame you!
are you related to that archer Ed guy? i believe his last name is Turpin and from indiana
Love it
I'm going to need you to let me know the locations of where you find all your morel mushrooms.
Fake locations, coming right up! 🙂
@@AdventureswithRoger lol...yeah I wasn't very optimistic you'd divulge that information....my best friend says that were one finds their morels is the kinda secret a person takes to the grave with them. I've never actually eaten or tasted them before...but someday I hope too....I know of two places where they grow but I've never found enough of them at either location to make a meals worth. Both spots only produce very small mushrooms.....maybe I should go to both spots in late March and sprinkle some miracle grow where the grow...but imafraid if I did that it might kill them off....I'm hoping that if I'll just leave them alone that maybe one year they will take off and produce alot of big ones.
@@davy1458 No matter where you find them, it’s important to use scissors and cut them just above the ground, leaving a root system: they’ll continue to grow there. It’s always good practice to put them in a netted bag, and shake them to let spores fall out. The biggest mushroom I saw this season, was one a guy grew by soaking some mushrooms overnight, then dumping that water next to an old tree.
@@AdventureswithRoger thanks for the tips friend.
That confederate gold