Explore new forested areas of central New Hampshire

Update #1: Explore new forested areas of central New Hampshire

2024-06-13T01:28:40+00:00

Foraging the snowmobile trails in Clough State Park

Challenges Overcome: Connecting partial trails in clough

Update #2: Four more miles of connecting trail.

2024-06-17T12:36:46+00:00 10% complete

In search of foraging spots. Found large tracks of deciduous trees.

Update #3: First medicinal mushrooms of the season, Ganoderma tsugae

2024-06-20T00:37:35+00:00 10% complete

Foraging starts today. Already sold this find.

Update #4: Foraging Reishi

2024-06-20T00:40:24+00:00 10% complete

Reishi (varnish shelf) found on hemlock

Update #5: Clough Stark Mill pond connector

2024-06-20T21:49:49+00:00 10% complete

Sweet fern (Comptonia peregrina) Edible seeds and leaves. Long tradition of making Liberty Tea during the Am Rev

Update #6: Found Leccinum aurantiacum (scabber stalk)

2024-06-21T22:59:45+00:00 10% complete

Exploring Meadowsend logging land along the Hopkinton corridor

Update #7: Chanterelles are popping in the Upper pond in Meadowsend Hopkinton

2024-06-21T23:26:53+00:00 10% complete

A chanterelle does not possess true gills, instead has a network of "false gills" that are actually wrinkles in the underside of the cap. This is the most important feature in identification. False gills should fork.

Update #8: Exploring Drew lake corridor- east

2024-06-22T16:53:35+00:00 10% complete

Forged for Indian cucumber - Medeola virginiana. Found many, only few were mature. The edible rhizome is crisp and taste like cucumber

Update #9: Lost lake trail in Dunbarton. The fungi are resisting the “pop” spotted a favorite mushroom and have almost completed the Mill P

2024-07-02T00:59:20+00:00 10% complete

Chicken of the Woods (C.O.W.) choice edible

Update #10: Gotham pond trail connector

2024-07-02T01:12:24+00:00 10% complete

Indian cucumber and wintergreen in copious quantities

Update #11: Meadowsend forest management area.

2024-07-05T01:35:39+00:00 10% complete

Wintergreen and sweet fern stocks. This is where we found the wild cranberry bog. Not sure what meadowsend group is up to..but they share their land to walkers and foragers. I see their signs everywhere, they own large tracks of land in Weare

Update #12: Connected Rt 127 in Contoocook to south of Clough

2024-07-31T10:37:32+00:00 70% complete

Pieces of trails walked to find the passage from north of Elmbrook to Clough State park

Update #13: Choice edibles from mid summer

2024-07-31T10:41:51+00:00 75% complete

Mycology is slooow! No water in this area. Polypores are doing ok, like this Bondarzewia berkeleyi. Lobster mushrooms and chicken of the woods are popping up sporadically

Update #14: Last trail piece…along canal #2

2024-08-10T12:10:53+00:00 100% complete

I’ve completed what I’ve set out to do this summer. I’ve linked partial trails on the Hopkinton-Everett flood plain from Contoocook to south of Clough State park. Spotted many shelf style mushrooms