Mushroom foraging: the perfect pandemic pastime
Benjamin Winborn finds a deer mushroom behind a rotting log while foraging for edible mushrooms in Nesbit Park in Bartlett on May 21, 2020. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
A basket full of wood ear and deer mushrooms collected by Benjamin Winborn while foraging in Nesbit Park in Bartlett. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
Benjamin Winborn takes a photo of a chicken of the woods mushroom while foraging for edible mushrooms in Nesbit Park in Bartlett. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
Benjamin Winborn inspects a growth of yellow mustard poly spore while foraging for edible mushrooms in Nesbit Park in Bartlett. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
Benjamin Winborn shows off a deer mushroom he found while foraging for edible mushrooms in Nesbit Park in Bartlett. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
Benjamin Winborn crosses a dry creek bed while foraging for edible mushrooms in Nesbit Park in Bartlett. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
The first Memphis Mushroom Festival, scheduled for Oct. 1-4 in Meeman Shelby Forest, welcomes amateur and professional “mycologists,” or fungi fanatics.
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Memphis Mushroom Festival Meeman Shelby Forest State Park Benjamin Winborn Carrington Wise mushroom foragingJill Johnson Piper
Jill Johnson Piper is a second generation newspaper writer with roots in Memphis and Arkansas. She earned a B.A. in English from Rhodes College. Her work appears in Rhodes Today and Memphis magazine, as well as The Daily Memphian.
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