Two handfuls of morel mushrooms found during a hunt along the Missouri River in Burt County near Decatur, Neb., on April 9, 2012. The Missouri River flood of 2011 has washed away many favorite morel ...

English instructor James McCullough, at North Central Michigan College, in Petoskey, asked his students to write essays about Northern Michigan life. Then he asked MyNorth to share six of the essays ...

IDAHO, USA — As spring unfolds across Idaho's varied landscapes, a different kind of treasure hunt is taking place in the state's damp forests - the search for the elusive morel mushroom. "There's ...

Another season is biting the dust. The best season for avid morel mushroom hunters is coming to a close. Our crazy Northern Illinois weather patterns have blessed the morel hunting community with what ...

Dried leaves, bark scraps, fallen walnuts — just about everything on the forest floor looked like a morel. I was roughly 40 minutes into a forest trek to find morel mushrooms. The prized culinary ...

BOYNE CITY — In the woods of Northern Michigan, the morel mushroom is more than just a delicacy — it’s a legend. For 65 years, Boyne City has celebrated the arrival of these wild spring mushrooms with ...

For the past few weeks, Nevada teen Nicholas Williams, 13, has had a friendly $10 wager with his dad, Travis, as to who would find the first morel mushroom of the year. On Wednesday, Nicholas claimed ...

Boyne City's 65th annual National Morel Mushroom Festival is May 15-18. A festival celebrating morel mushrooms features special dinners and a tasting event throughout its three days. Morel mushrooms ...

Destination Michigan is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, ...

Good Food Morels; Wild Fennel; The Future of Food Writing Is there a future in food writing? An influential writer says yes, but it's not what it used to be. Plus, the hunt for morels and foraging for ...

My longtime journalist pal Bob Tita was a newsroom desk neighbor of mine two decades ago before he left Northwest Indiana in 2002 to become a reporter for Crain’s Chicago Business, and later, a ...

I know I say this every other week but, in the spring, I could write a daily column. Right now I need to write two crappie columns, cover two mushroom trips, preparing for huckleberry picking and who ...