There is some information that participants in the knowledge cannot share with the world wide web. This often includes trade secrets, government information, military data & the more innocuous mushroom hunting grounds.This morning I spent nearly an hour attempting to find a good place to go mushroom gathering near my house, yet found nothing. It appears that mushroom harvesting is a very secretive enterprise, and once the knowledge of a good mushroom hunting ground is discovered, the finder typically wants to keep that information only to themselves, as mushrooms are bound to appear in the same place year after year.
It is due to this secretive nature that the world wide web was unable to provide me with solid information. Thus, I was forced to use old-fashioned connections with friends who have connections to the mushrooming business in order to discover a locale for my new pursuit. It appears that some knowledge on the web is simply too valuable to let out. This is the first time web search has let me down in some time, and I suspect that a good site with information on mushroom gathering places could develop some very strong links very quickly - perhaps a venture is in order...
Geocaching to the rescue?
I don't suspect it'd be too difficult to set something like that up -- though I don't suspect many people would contribute content if it's the case that "wild food harvesters" protect their knowledge of growing locations for wild foods.
I suspect that a great deal of data exists about the growing conditions this fungi prefers; as well as known regional boundaries. I suspect that using a mashup of climate and geological data (soil pH, water table, etc). that a decent "predicted grow" map could be generated. The book "edible wild foods" has such maps for foods like dandelions and mallow -- except as 2-color maps. The maps existing data could generate should be more like heat maps... with the "dense zones" representing probable grow zones; or could be assigned some identifier when it's "probable harvest time". Same thing goes for other wild foods...
Users could verify if such zones really did contain sprouting foods, or if the foods existed there in an earlier stage of their growth.
Hey, good luck out there finding your mushrooms, Rand!
this post sucks rand. lol
im trying to protect my website and i get mushrooms.