THE MOREL MUSHROOM: SOUTHERN INDIANA GOLD

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  • Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
  • The pursuit of the legendary morel mushroom, has produced lots of memories, lots of folklore, but always a great time! This film explores how to find them, how to cook them, and the traditions surrounding this annual April event. A true part of the Southern Indiana experience!

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  • @brandonfutch6355
    @brandonfutch6355 5 месяцев назад +8

    Adventures With Roger: Southern Indiana Gold! No wait, Morels... my bad.
    Man, first comprehensive history videos, now this... thanks Roger!!

  • @LaDonnaShielded-kc7zm
    @LaDonnaShielded-kc7zm 3 месяца назад +2

    Morel🤤. The blackened ones after a fire, are scrumptious!

  • @talesfromanoldmanpatoneal6372
    @talesfromanoldmanpatoneal6372 5 месяцев назад +3

    Family ❤ Amanda, Bailey, Rosa and Tiffany.... I love my girls. Mom and dad.....I miss you ❤️

  • @meandthemrs7403
    @meandthemrs7403 4 месяца назад +3

    I have good childhood memories of mushroom hunting. My Dad, an older friend of ours, and I would go hunting on horses. The old friend rode a pony and seemed to find more than us. The joke was that his pony could smell the mushrooms. I wish my kids could have had those days.

  • @addieandkaysenfamilyadvent1418
    @addieandkaysenfamilyadvent1418 5 месяцев назад +2

    We always look in our woods. Fun times especially when you find them.

    • @AdventureswithRoger
      @AdventureswithRoger  5 месяцев назад +1

      Like a treasure hunt! And after the first person finds one, EVERYONE gets excited. 🙂

  • @michaelhorton1350
    @michaelhorton1350 2 месяца назад +1

    Knox County has many places where these delicious ‘shrooms grow. And, the narrator ain’t wrong. Springtime and first several days of sunshine after frost brings them out - - and reptiles.

  • @brentmay6379
    @brentmay6379 5 месяцев назад +3

    Love finding them...not so much eating them, but my family loves them, so I guess thats a win.

  • @Gunpowdermaniac22
    @Gunpowdermaniac22 5 месяцев назад +6

    Literally, my childhood 😭

  • @jchawkins4
    @jchawkins4 2 месяца назад

    I came across your sight sometime ago and I really enjoy it, for I to am from Indiana and reside in a small town north of Indianapolis. Must say that Moral hunting seems to be a tradition and family event that all of us look back on fondly as Hoosiers.

  • @stardust949
    @stardust949 5 месяцев назад +1

    I'm your neighbor in SW Ohio---we do the morel thing here too. I was hoping your video would include a warning about "false morels" and how to tell the difference. But, it was a very nice video---and I agree with how wonderful it is to create family memories.

  • @usnhm1625
    @usnhm1625 5 месяцев назад +3

    Miss hunting them in Lawrence County. My father in law still goes, he's 83.

  • @indianamichelle7216
    @indianamichelle7216 5 месяцев назад +1

    Many good memories of mushroom hunting with my Dad in Floyd & Harrison counties! We’d then take them home and cook them up Southern Fried! Good times!
    The mention about the snake 🐍 under the May apples made my husband and I both laugh 😆 If I happened upon one of those, my hunt would be over real quick! Yikes! 😳
    Great video Roger! 👍🏼👍🏼

    • @AdventureswithRoger
      @AdventureswithRoger  5 месяцев назад +1

      I was out scouting for filming locations, when I found several morels. A few minutes later, a local guy came by, and we spoke for a good while about mushroom lore, family and legends. Had not even occurred to me before, to make a mushroom video. 🙂

  • @papap.8006
    @papap.8006 5 месяцев назад +2

    Very nice Roger.

  • @June-n9k
    @June-n9k 5 месяцев назад +1

    Great video. Thank you for the yummy Indiana morel memories. Those small morels are so tasty. It was so nice to live near someone who had their own private morel patch. I never had to hunt them only prepare, eat, and enjoy. Yummy, yummy.

  • @terrysuemakesvideosforyou9940
    @terrysuemakesvideosforyou9940 5 месяцев назад +1

    I loved this video! We have hunted the morel here in Michigan too!! What a great Childhood you have had! I love my adventures here in our state too. Miss the old relatives and visiting the farms. Thanks for the great information. I think I will go look in our woods today!

  • @princearcane4602
    @princearcane4602 3 месяца назад

    One day I may get to taste & experience,
    The Morel of the story 😄

  • @californiacat9762
    @californiacat9762 5 месяцев назад +3

    I remember little mushrooms in southern Indiana. I would tap them and clouds of spores would fill the air.

  • @bjbobbijo5066
    @bjbobbijo5066 4 месяца назад +1

    They came and went faster than normal this year up here in north eastern Indiana, but they were still just as good as ever. My one family member found over 2,000.
    Watch the dandelions each spring. If the dandelions are coming out, then so are the morels.
    When the dandelions are going away, then that means the morels are in their really good yellow stage but going away, too.
    (2024)

    • @AdventureswithRoger
      @AdventureswithRoger  4 месяца назад +1

      Southern Indiana seemed to have a boom year, pretty huge ones too

  • @thatc10
    @thatc10 5 месяцев назад +7

    Not grocery bags when we were kids. Bread sacks. LOL

  • @marknicholson2718
    @marknicholson2718 5 месяцев назад +2

    My mom and my son used to hunt them. Both are gone now.
    I never could see them unless they were huge. They said I stepped on a couple, so I left it to the professionals.

  • @DeanMartin-mx2gi
    @DeanMartin-mx2gi 9 дней назад +1

    I was at my cousin's place and they found a patch of morels. They picked a bushel basket of moerels. We just boiled them in water and ate them. They were delicious!!! Funny thing was i never did find out where they found them other than i think they were on some property owned by some the ancestors😊

    • @AdventureswithRoger
      @AdventureswithRoger  9 дней назад

      @@DeanMartin-mx2gi I once passed three good old boys in the woods, with 50 pound trash bags, full of morels. Did not find a single mushroom on the entire hillside! 😂

  • @edcornwall8700
    @edcornwall8700 5 месяцев назад +1

    Dear Roger,
    Very nice footage from a Morel mushroom. I live in the Netherlands and in my area i know a place where Morels grow. Not much, just a couple of them and those mushroom are in symbiotic with a very niche kind of funghi. In our country grows 3 species of the Morel and 2 of them are on the RedList class 5.
    you have a great channel and you have another subscriber as well, respect! 🙂

    • @AdventureswithRoger
      @AdventureswithRoger  5 месяцев назад

      Hi Ed! What’s the season for morels, where you live? Here, it’s around the second week of April, until the end of the month.

    • @edcornwall8700
      @edcornwall8700 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@AdventureswithRoger
      Hiya Roger, the season for Morels ( Morielje in dutch ) in the Netherlands is from half April till the last week of May. ( Y )

    • @AdventureswithRoger
      @AdventureswithRoger  5 месяцев назад +1

      @edcornwall8700 I’d heard that morels were also a big deal in Europe, but had never known anyone that hunted them. Thank you for giving me a new insight. 🙂

  • @JustAnotherPaddy
    @JustAnotherPaddy 5 месяцев назад +3

    My land has one little 5 acre area that has these. All my land is wooded, but they only grow in the one area. This is just outside of Columbus. I’m not a fan of mushrooms, so I let me neighbor harvest them.

  • @indianagashauler3377
    @indianagashauler3377 5 месяцев назад +1

    My friends father had heart problems and couldn’t walk very far. Him and I would drive through Yellow Wood and the Hoosier National. He could spot a mushroom as we eased down the gravel road. He’d send me out and try to tell me where it was. He was great at spotting them but gave terrible directions. I miss Dave and those trips.

    • @AdventureswithRoger
      @AdventureswithRoger  5 месяцев назад

      Sounds like wonderful memories! I sure wish I could score a real mushroom scope, I walk right passed them!

  • @richardbritton5280
    @richardbritton5280 5 месяцев назад +1

    ty Roger ty

  • @heavymeadowdetective192
    @heavymeadowdetective192 5 месяцев назад +2

    Hopefully, I have e a successful hunt on Friday.

  • @Mike_Greentea
    @Mike_Greentea 5 месяцев назад +3

    👍👍👍

  • @melissainaus7955
    @melissainaus7955 5 месяцев назад +1

    Another great video Roger.i set up my own RUclips channel.its called Mel Mayhem and has a picture of a brown pit bull.only got 3 videos up so far.still learning how to do and gotta learn how to edit properly,Mel from Australia 🇦🇺

  • @JasonMartin915
    @JasonMartin915 2 месяца назад +1

    I would often accompany my mom moral hunting. I hate mushrooms, but i love battered fried morals!

    • @AdventureswithRoger
      @AdventureswithRoger  2 месяца назад +1

      They are good! Batter fried morels were the first mushroom I ever had, a gateway to common buttons and portobellos. 🙂

    • @JasonMartin915
      @JasonMartin915 2 месяца назад +1

      @@AdventureswithRoger yes they are 😊

  • @bouncerslabrealnature9143
    @bouncerslabrealnature9143 5 месяцев назад +2

    The bags don't seem to make much of a difference...they always show up eventually. 😂😂

  • @armyvet8279
    @armyvet8279 5 месяцев назад +3

    I live in Southern Indiana and I don't think I've ever seen one

    • @AdventureswithRoger
      @AdventureswithRoger  5 месяцев назад +4

      This seems to be a good year. I found two without trying. My cousin found over 50 today! Under the mayapples are where to start!

    • @angelmartin7310
      @angelmartin7310 5 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@AdventureswithRogerthank you! I have found everything besides morells

    • @my_flippin_journey
      @my_flippin_journey 5 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@AdventureswithRogerI look for the may apples .. the morels are camouflaged much like a snake. But I know if I kind find a mayapple, I've got better odds of finding a morel

  • @indysbest9851
    @indysbest9851 3 месяца назад +1

    Brown county is the spot. Be careful on private property. Everyone is armed and not welcoming to trespassing

    • @AdventureswithRoger
      @AdventureswithRoger  3 месяца назад

      One year, me and a friend went mushroom hunting at Brown County. He said, “I know a great place!” We hadn’t even got in a quarter mile, when we met four country boys, each with 50 gallon trash bags, filled to the top with morel mushrooms! Really nice people. We were really excited, hoping for only a small bag for home. But those four guys must’ve found every mushroom that side of the hill range, we didn’t find a single one!

  • @lordsams
    @lordsams 3 месяца назад

    That confederate gold

  • @kevinwhitted2147
    @kevinwhitted2147 5 месяцев назад +11

    When I was a kid we wouldfill 50 gal plastic bags with those mushrooms i lived on a farm in martinsville indiana

    • @AdventureswithRoger
      @AdventureswithRoger  5 месяцев назад +5

      One year, I went to Brown County with a friend. I found one mushroom in three hours, him zero. So we went somewhere else, a few miles away. Three guys we met on the trail had 50 pounds bags, filled to the top with morels. We thought we were about to have a great mushroom day, but I believe those guys found every mushroom in the valley! 😂

    • @Tony-no2mg
      @Tony-no2mg 2 месяца назад +1

      @@AdventureswithRoger yeah I know a few people that have found pounds of mushrooms

  • @lostbear53
    @lostbear53 5 месяцев назад +4

    Just paid $40 for a pound!!! cooked in butter with head cheese and scrambled eggs. found 2 once, 1 was 17 in. the other 16 inches, they were shown on the local tv station. 1994

  • @chadlongnecker630
    @chadlongnecker630 5 месяцев назад +4

    I grew up hunting them with my Dad, I lost him a few weeks back but I'll always have the memories

  • @CumberlandGapJimBow
    @CumberlandGapJimBow 5 месяцев назад +4

    I have found almost 50 lbs. since April 1st here in northeast Tennessee. Going out today to check a couple more spots before they disappear. This was an average year for me and not a bumper crop like some years in the past.

  • @edwardh1591
    @edwardh1591 5 месяцев назад +5

    One of the local news channels had a morel mushroom the size of a 2 liter bottle. I used to hunt them myself until I lost my ability to walk.

  • @juliepearce6667
    @juliepearce6667 5 месяцев назад +4

    My brother is back home, hunting mushrooms, in Southern Illinois. Im stuck in West Texas, missing the entire mushroom season. From the looks of it, im going to miss the Strawberry season, too.😔
    Whats really weird, is that I have lived in Alabama for the past 30 years, and even tho they grow there, not one soul has ever heard of them! Man, they just dont know what they've been missing out on!

  • @KentuckyGirl
    @KentuckyGirl 5 месяцев назад +4

    This video brought back memories of my one and only mushroom 🍄 hunt.

  • @bwilkinson6901
    @bwilkinson6901 5 месяцев назад +3

    headed to our perry county farm this weekend to harvest another feed. found first batch of blacks on easter sunday this year.

  • @kellymercer8347
    @kellymercer8347 5 месяцев назад +3

    Omygoodness. This video is perfect. I could agree with everything. Thank you for all you do.

  • @robinwebb2160
    @robinwebb2160 3 месяца назад +3

    About 35 yrs ago, not long after moving into a new house (no longer there) I was on the phone with my mother. I looked out the kithchen window (east and next to a large Elm) and saw several Morels 😮 Just there in my yard! I wound up with over a dozen good size. Personally, I'm not a mushroom eater but, I think their interesting and take a lot of pictures. My parents and husband enjoyed the shroom feast 😊 I continued to find Morels for a few more years after that, including a couple other places in the yard. Quite extraordinary and fun 🙂

    • @AdventureswithRoger
      @AdventureswithRoger  3 месяца назад +2

      Had a friend that had them growing in their front yard. Another told me about sitting at a park bench, outside a rest stop, and they were growing underneath it! You never know where you’ll find them! 🙂

  • @charlottefaubion9998
    @charlottefaubion9998 5 месяцев назад +3

    Oh how I miss these. They are so good.

  • @Daves3DProjects
    @Daves3DProjects 5 месяцев назад +2

    I have 40 acres in Lawrence county and have never found one there. Of course, that hasn't stopped me from still hunting them...lol

  • @everyday_treasures
    @everyday_treasures 5 месяцев назад +2

    We are out looking now! There is plenty of good weather!

  • @ASFMitchelProductions
    @ASFMitchelProductions 5 месяцев назад +2

    I've found many around shagbark hickory trees

  • @gamebredduramax71
    @gamebredduramax71 5 месяцев назад +3

    Another Great Video ! Keep up the good work

  • @jeremyhaus8572
    @jeremyhaus8572 5 месяцев назад +4

    Another great video. Thank you, Roger! Hoping to find some this year. Good luck!

    • @AdventureswithRoger
      @AdventureswithRoger  5 месяцев назад +3

      My cousin found over 50 today. I think it’s a good year! 🙂

    • @hernberferd6725
      @hernberferd6725 5 месяцев назад +3

      I found 3 of them in my back yard yesterday. 50 would be the score of a lifetime.

    • @AdventureswithRoger
      @AdventureswithRoger  5 месяцев назад +2

      And terrific eating, no less!

  • @gigatorious
    @gigatorious 5 месяцев назад +2

    Excellent work as always Roger thanks for sharing!!

  • @kevinwhitted2147
    @kevinwhitted2147 5 месяцев назад +2

    We called them christmas tree mushrooms

  • @DerrickHikes
    @DerrickHikes 5 месяцев назад +1

    My boss lives up past milltown, the blue river is basically his backyard. He has found a morel goldmine. Just this week alone he’s found almost 50. Not sure if it’s a leprechaun playing tricks or what but I’m hoping to go there this weekend and help him find a few more 👍

    • @AdventureswithRoger
      @AdventureswithRoger  5 месяцев назад +1

      They are popping up all over the place, it’s a good year!

  • @IfyouKNOWITYOUKNOWIT
    @IfyouKNOWITYOUKNOWIT Месяц назад +1

    I find them in my yard. It makes cutting grass more enjoyable.

  • @geraldmckillip5594
    @geraldmckillip5594 5 месяцев назад +2

    Great video , brought back good memories and a "Delicious Taste" , Thank-you ❤❤❤

  • @RetiredLovingIt
    @RetiredLovingIt 5 месяцев назад +1

    We hunted them every year as kids! Yes, look under Mayapples is what we were told

  • @sharksport01
    @sharksport01 5 месяцев назад +2

    I've spent my life in the country and rural areas, but the only time I found mushrooms was when I accidently turned into an alley in the ghetto. It was near downtown Indy, and there were hundreds of them.

    • @AdventureswithRoger
      @AdventureswithRoger  5 месяцев назад +1

      I found some behind a church, wasn’t even looking for them. Another guy parked at a McDonalds, got some good, and went outside to eat. They were all around a picnic table, on the city.

  • @chamblen4
    @chamblen4 5 месяцев назад +1

    are you related to that archer Ed guy? i believe his last name is Turpin and from indiana

  • @nancyM1313-Boo
    @nancyM1313-Boo 5 месяцев назад +2

    👍👍Hey Roger!

  • @prospectorproductions
    @prospectorproductions 2 месяца назад +1

    I used to go when I was a kid and we would find paper grocery bags full. They are amazing. I live in Nevada now and only get to enjoy them when I go home to visit friends.

    • @AdventureswithRoger
      @AdventureswithRoger  2 месяца назад

      Morels were the first mushrooms I ever ate. I now like buttons on pizza, burgers and steaks because of that introduction.

  • @mushroomhunter7521
    @mushroomhunter7521 5 месяцев назад +1

    Love it

  • @youareon2something
    @youareon2something 5 месяцев назад +2

    I loved this episode!

  • @dean828
    @dean828 5 месяцев назад +1

    🍄!

  • @basecampbucayu
    @basecampbucayu 5 месяцев назад +1

    great sauteed in butter and mixed with pasta!!!

  • @johnr3603
    @johnr3603 5 месяцев назад +1

    Great interesting takes on the Hoosier state, nu subscriber here!

  • @jerrydeem8845
    @jerrydeem8845 5 месяцев назад +1

    My spots are in my will...js

  • @janetewens701
    @janetewens701 3 месяца назад

    @6.00 min. Yes Amen to tht🙏👌🥰

  • @kevinreul8169
    @kevinreul8169 5 месяцев назад +1

    I have lived in Southern Indiana for years, l like history and the outdoors. Great job and work on your videos. Thank You!

  • @bradleygard9849
    @bradleygard9849 5 месяцев назад

    Can you do a series on the Silver mine 10 miles North of Jasper. It operated in 1887. Please.

  • @davy1458
    @davy1458 3 месяца назад

    I'm going to need you to let me know the locations of where you find all your morel mushrooms.

    • @AdventureswithRoger
      @AdventureswithRoger  3 месяца назад

      Fake locations, coming right up! 🙂

    • @davy1458
      @davy1458 3 месяца назад +1

      @@AdventureswithRoger lol...yeah I wasn't very optimistic you'd divulge that information....my best friend says that were one finds their morels is the kinda secret a person takes to the grave with them. I've never actually eaten or tasted them before...but someday I hope too....I know of two places where they grow but I've never found enough of them at either location to make a meals worth. Both spots only produce very small mushrooms.....maybe I should go to both spots in late March and sprinkle some miracle grow where the grow...but imafraid if I did that it might kill them off....I'm hoping that if I'll just leave them alone that maybe one year they will take off and produce alot of big ones.

    • @AdventureswithRoger
      @AdventureswithRoger  3 месяца назад

      @@davy1458 No matter where you find them, it’s important to use scissors and cut them just above the ground, leaving a root system: they’ll continue to grow there. It’s always good practice to put them in a netted bag, and shake them to let spores fall out. The biggest mushroom I saw this season, was one a guy grew by soaking some mushrooms overnight, then dumping that water next to an old tree.

    • @davy1458
      @davy1458 3 месяца назад +1

      @@AdventureswithRoger thanks for the tips friend.