Mid-Atlantic mushroom foragers collect 160 species for food, medicine, art and science

By: Amy Wrobleski, Penn State, The Conversation

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Published: November 24, 2025

Words: 984

Last Updated: 18 hours, 26 minutes ago

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By Amy Wrobleski, Penn State

Like many mushroom harvesters, I got interested in foraging for fungi during the COVID-19 pandemic.

I had been preparing for a summer of field work studying foraged desert plants in a remote part of Australia when the pandemic hit, and my travel plans were abruptly frozen. It was March, right before morel mushrooms emerge in central Pennsylvania.

I wasn’t doing a lot other than going on long hikes and …

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