We have an area no larger than an acre near our house and the road. The soil in this area is very sandy and there are "lots" of pine trees, a couple cedar trees, some large oak trees and some other miscellaneous trees.
I've been checking this area every year for the past 5 years for Morels with no success. I check it because it is close to the house and easy to check. This year, about a week ago and while walking the area for an entirely different reason (not at all related to mushrooms), I stumbled upon a handful or 2 of morel mushrooms. Some were fairly large while others were not that big. But we'd just had a series of heavy rains so they were a little bit water logged.
Ed couldn't believe my luck or even where I found them (typically, if we find any at all, it's in our back woods; although, we've never been overly successful...). When he arrived, he asked to see where I found them and tried to find more (to no avail).
While looking though, Ed did find a small handful of Oyster mushrooms. Oddly, the Shiitake inoculated logs that Ed has in the area still have not provided anything worth harvesting... Oh well - we'll take what we can get.
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