Central Pennsylvania Wild Mushroom Club

This winter I started doing something I have not previously done much of - walking in the woods.  After a brief period of acclimation, I find this an entirely enjoyable experience.  The winter woods is more open once the leaves are down.  And when snow blankets the ground, the tracks of the forest creatures have many stories to tell.  The bugs are gone and one can more easily dress to avoid becoming overheated.  But most of all, the solitude is fantastic.  When I am out tramping about on a winter weekday it is as if I own the woods, so rarely do I enc

The February meeting of CPMC has been canceled as we have been unable to confirm the planned meeting location.  We had planned to conduct mushroom cultivation seminars at both meetings, Oysters in February and Shiitake in March.  The good news is that we will be rolling both of these into the March meeting.  I will send a notice to the membership via the listserve with additional details.  Sorry for any inconvenience, hope to see everyone in March. 

Dave

Where and what time is the Feburay Meeting?

 In case you missed this, the tale makes a good case for carrying a GPS or a compass!

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/02/05/family-lost-for-6-days-found-alive-in-oregon-forest/

 That's the echo in here .  There's a hike this Saturday with the Juniata Valley Audubon Society if anyone would like to join us. Canoe Creek at noon.

I have been trying to find out what type of mushrooms these are... I have a patch of grass beside my house that I get this long string of these mushrooms that grow “under the ground” as bumps and continue to get larger until the majority of the ball is above ground...   Please help... the suspense is killing us not knowing what they are and why we have them just in that one spot...   Thanks

 Check out the facebook site for the club, I post there and it's a good way to get the word out about the club! I wish I could figure out how to link it to my page!

It's Thanksgiving and I wanted to wish everyone a happy holiday.  I will keep this short, as there is no way I could begin to list all of the blessings which I enjoy and for which I am so grateful each day.  But I will say that list of blessings includes living here in the beautiful environs of Central Pennsylvania and all that that entails.  We all have our spiritual places and, speaking for myself, I rarely feel more connected, contemplative, or grateful for all I have than when I am among some remote woodland or stream.  During those

 Dave showed us a beautiful Cinnabar Polypore (Pycnoporus cinnabarinus) in his July 30, 2010 post, and I found it interesting that this 'schroom is blooming this late in the season. These were on dead cherry logs in a pasture west of State College, and I took the photos in the rain this morning. Too bad they are not good edibles!