Do you know the best practices when mushroom foraging? Tune in as Olivia interviews Chelsea Harbach, Plant Disease Diagnostician in Iowa State University's Plant & Insect Diagnostic Clinic. They discuss tips when it comes to foraging for mushrooms and even growing your own at home. Chelsea also gives some great resources you can use!

Episode Links:

• Iowa Mushroom Calendar: https://naturalresources.extension.iastate.edu/encyclopedia/mushroom-foraging-iowa

• Safe Mushroom foraging webinars by Lina: part 1- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bdiEBwMzZI&t=534s

• Safe Mushroom foraging webinars by Lina: part 2- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNIPxbGbJtU&t=3s

• Safe Mushroom Foraging Book: https://store.extension.iastate.edu/product/Safe-Mushroom-Foraging

• Plant and Insect Diagnostic Clinic e-mail: [email protected]

Growing mushrooms at home resources from other universities:

• Pen State University- https://extension.psu.edu/forage-and-food-crops/mushrooms/production-and-harvesting

• University of Florida- https://gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu/plants/edibles/vegetables/growing-mushrooms-at-home.html

• Cornell University- https://smallfarms.cornell.edu/projects/mushrooms/

• University of Vermont- https://www.uvm.edu/news/extension/growing-mushrooms-indoors