hey I'm up in my backyard today it is Mother's Day and typically this is the day in history
pass where I find morel mushrooms so let's take one last Gander and see if they came
I have an idea that maybe they there's a reason why they don't stay tuned [Music]
hello welcome back to Pine Meadows hobby Farm I'm your host Jerry Hanson brought you guys up
into my backyard just scoop out to see if there's any morel mushrooms growing uh in history past I
would always find them right around Mother's Day today's Mother's Day we've had a couple of uh days
today and yesterday in the 80s so it really dried things out I've been coming up here every week
looking for mushrooms I have found none I know that mushrooms typically grow in stands like this
especially around our Madrones we have a couple of Pacific Madrones that are in the area on my land
I also have some Evergreens I've got some Douglas fur Some Sugar Pine I've got some cedar up here uh
we've got some ponderosa pine that are up here yeah there's a variety of trees on my mountain
and years past there was a wildfire that swept through here and scorched the ground
and that created a perfect environment for where the mushrooms like to grow
now given the time that has passed and the lack of wildfires that have scorched through the ground
here I think that was it 40 years ago was the last group of mushrooms I found I think that that kind
of was the Tail land of the fertility for the prime growing matter for these uh mushrooms
and now it's so dry and also my goats have free range up here plus the deer are up here
I'm wondering if they may have gotten them because they usually I'd never let the goats up here until
this year of course I haven't found any mushrooms up here in the last three years so I think
I'm just gonna give up on finding mushrooms for a while until I do one thing and that is
coming here with a saw and pile up all this slash and twigs and create nice burn areas
that will give an environment for those mushrooms to grow I don't know if the deer will come in and
like if they eat the mushrooms from the field or the property next door and they come in and
poop and spread the poor spores here that might be advantageous to me because I noticed that
most of the mushrooms I find on my farm our real close proximity to Wildlife paths yeah
and I wonder if that's how the spores are being spread because the deer especially
love mushrooms well my goats they could love them I haven't seen them eat it but
they probably got them this is one of the wildlife paths that I have found mushrooms along either
side of them and I haven't seen any so I guess this winter ah this fall uh I'll come in and start
cleaning and piling up and there's some time late winter I'll go ahead and burn the piles that way
in the spring hopefully it brings the mushrooms I could purchase some mushrooms and just come
out and spread the spores just to inoculate the soil so I have a crop of mushrooms up here but
then I've got a cross fence it down there and keep the goats off the mountain which
the baby goats are going to a new home here in the next couple of days then I'll just be left with
back down to four goats two Billy Goats two nanny goats now my friend a mile down the road that
lived over there on Acorn Acres uh he had a burn pile out in his backyard and there in the spring
there was about five pounds of morel mushrooms that shot up in his backyard around that burn pile
so just by observation I think that's what I'll do out here so I'll work this spring
just cleaning up all the wood piling it up and making burn piles and checking them next spring to
see if I have any morale mushrooms that sprouted up around them at least I'll get my property
cleaned up I have it segregated segmented I've been working on one segment of my back pasture
at a time I have this section right here which I completely cleared out I just a couple of branches
that have fallen since that I have to clean up make a little pile out of and yeah I work
tirelessly a lot of hard hours and declaring all the underbrush and limbing up the trees over here
so I should go check my burn piles over here to see if there's anywhere else and then I've got
this section and then that section over there to clean up it's going to take a while but I'll get
them done get them all cleaned up yeah this is one of the areas I had a big fire in the past
all I see growing around here is uh poison oak and other flora and fauna but no mushrooms
well skunked again on Mother's Day looking for mushrooms
it was inevitable anyway I'm your host Jerry Hansen we're uh Pine Meadows hobby Farm tucked up
in the Cascade Mountains and this is my backyard I want to thank you guys for taking a hike up with
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