Wild Edibles: Morel Hunt with Nick Spero

Name: Wild Edibles: Morel Hunt with Nick Spero
Start: 2025-04-27T09:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-04-27T11:00:00-04:00
Location: Patapsco Valley State Park

Schedule

Sun Apr 27 2025 at 09:00 am to 11:00 am

UTC-04:00

Location

Patapsco Valley State Park | Ellicott City, MD

If truffles are out of your price range, morels are the next best thing. Prized for taste and versatility by chefs worldwide, morels emerge for only a short time in spring. Knowing where to look for morels is one important factor in the hunt. Lucky for us, Nick Spero knows all the clues. He knows the rich forests where morels grow and how they are intertwined in a symbiotic relationship with certain trees. We’ll learn how indicator plants can tell us when the morel growing season will start and end. And how the right combination of warmth and rain brings morels popping their heads out of the soil.
We will discuss collection methods and how to prepare our findings for optimal taste and nutrition. To limit our impact on the park, let’s concentrate on learning to identify and sample taste rather than foraging, which may damage an area when too much is taken.
Please note that morels are very temperature and moisture dependent. We will do our best to find them, but like all natural things, we make no guarantees.