Learn Colorado’s Wild Mushrooms
Western Colorado is home to many species of edible gourmet mushrooms including morels, oysters, porcini and chanterelle. Learn when, where and how to forage for these delicious beauties. Topics include identification, habitat, etiquette, preservation and cooking. Trent is the co-founder of Modern Forager and author of Burn Morels – A Modern Foragers Guide to Finding Mushrooms. He is a CDPHE certified Wild Mushroom Identification Expert. Based in Glenwood Springs, he hunts across the Western Slope with his wife Kristen and two dogs, Benzie and Lulu.
While Trent won’t share his secret spots, he will teach Coloradans how to safely locate and pick their own gourmet mushrooms and hopefully develop their own secret spots.
On-Demand Classes! Watch as soon as you signup, with six hours of recorded video.
Cost: $50 for 12 months of access – This includes three 2+ hour classes
Bonus: Colorado Burn Morel webinar as well.
The following mushrooms will be discussed:
Spring Mushrooms:
- Yellow Morels (Morchella esculentoides)
- Black Morels (Morchella brunnea)
- Burn Morels (Morchella eximia, M sextelata, M exuberance, M tomentosa)
- Oyster (Pleurotus pulmonarius, P populinus)
- Dryad’s Saddle (Cerioporus squamosus)
- Wood Ear (Auricularia auricula)
Summer Mushrooms:
- White King (Boletus barrowsii)
- Porcini (Boletus rubriceps)
- Lobster (Hypomyces lactifluorum & Russula brevipes)
- Milk Cap (Lactarius deliciosus)
- Puffball (Lycoperdon spp)
- Hawkswing (Sarcodon imbricatus)
- Shrimp Russula (Russula xerampelina)
- Agaricus (Agaricus spp)
- Chanterelle (Cantherellus roseocanus, C cibarius)
- Hedgehog (Hydnum repandum)
- Matsutake (Tricholoma murrillianum)
- Shaggy Mane (Coprinus comatus)
We also will discuss lookalike mushrooms, especially poisonous and deadly ones.
