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What is the most expensive mushroom in the world? 🍄

Published: Wed, 09/24/25

Updated: Mon, 09/29/25

It's white and smells like cinnamon and earth... The Hunt for Matsutake: Foraging the Pacific Northwest’s Most Elusive MushroomBy the time last summer…

What tastes like chicken but looks like an orange?🍊

Published: Tue, 09/09/25

Updated: Tue, 09/09/25

Hint: It's a wild mushroom.Chicken of the woods (Laetiporus spp.) is bright yellow-orange and the young growth edges of the mushroom have the te ture…

Mushroom Season is ON! 🍄

Published: Wed, 09/03/25

Updated: Wed, 09/03/25

learn to safely find edible wild mushrooms in the forest with our myco-guides on the North shore, Maple Ridge or Whistler this year. Each region has…

How much does a bullfrog weigh? 🐸

Published: Thu, 08/28/25

Updated: Thu, 08/28/25

The American bullfrog, a species brought to BC to be farmed for food, has been spreading rapidly since they were released into the wild by humans.

Can you eat hedgehogs?!

Published: Thu, 08/21/25

Updated: Thu, 08/21/25

Hydnum species or hedgehogs are the easiest edible mushrooms to identify for beginners in the wild. They do have 'teeth' but not like us, under their…

Seafood lover's pop-up dinner 🐠| Giant Puffballs!

Published: Sun, 08/17/25

Updated: Sun, 08/17/25

Come meet celebrity chef Bruno Feldeisen beloved judge of TV's the Great Canadian Bake Off who will be cooking up an "Ode to the sea" seafood pop-up…

6 Tasty Wild Berries to Try (+ a few to avoid)🍓

Published: Thu, 08/07/25

Updated: Thu, 08/07/25

Wild berries be jammin' this year!🙈 Our local blackberries are so concentrated that they tasted like jam on the vine when I picked some on Galiano…

Can you pick a porcini in summer? 🍄

Published: Thu, 07/31/25

Updated: Fri, 08/01/25

Forager's report: You'd think it was too dry out, but just go up in elevation into the mountains where it's cooler and you'll find it's been raining…

Edible Sea Plant Harvesting Trip

Published: Sun, 07/27/25

Updated: Sun, 07/27/25

We live on the coast, so let's eat like it! Sea plants are delicious, salty, uniquely flavourful, mineral rich, vitamin packed foods that many of us…

Carnivoria! Our annual meat lovers dinner is back!

Published: Wed, 07/16/25

Updated: Wed, 07/16/25

I never thought my wacky idea to host popup dinners in my garden would being going strong 15 years in! "Carnivoria" was one of our most popular dinner…

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