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Blue Moon Outdoors Blue Moon Outdoors offers wild edible foraging, wilderness treks, outdoor workshops, and more in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

Public and private outings available. I've been sharing my knowledge and love of the outdoors for more than 20 years. I've been a volunteer instructor/guide for the MI DNR's "Becoming an Outdoors Woman" and the NMU CAYA programs. I'm a life-long hunter-gatherer and enjoy sharing and teaching about what I do.

When it doesn’t rain where you live and you want to find mushrooms, what do you do? Road trip. Here are a few scenes fro...
09/12/2026

When it doesn’t rain where you live and you want to find mushrooms, what do you do? Road trip. Here are a few scenes from mine so far.

I took a little road trip yesterday and drove about 90 miles southeast to a place that has been getting more rain than w...
09/03/2026

I took a little road trip yesterday and drove about 90 miles southeast to a place that has been getting more rain than we’ve gotten here. It sure did make a difference. I left at sunrise and when I got to my targeted location I immediately found a huge flush of yellow-pored boletes that followed a back road for almost a quarter of a mile. I found a few lobster mushrooms and chanterelles, oyster mushrooms, even an old Chicken of the Woods. (I mistimed the fruiting of this chicken three years in a row!) Mushrooms were sprouting everywhere. I even found my first stinkhorn. 😀 Took a little detour on the drive home just to get a little beach time—something I haven’t done in a couple years. Nice day to be out.

A first ever find for me: a Veiled Stinkhorn! I’m happy as a pig in…you know…to have found it! Speaking of, want to know...
09/02/2026

A first ever find for me: a Veiled Stinkhorn! I’m happy as a pig in…you know…to have found it! Speaking of, want to know why it’s called a stinkhorn? Do like I did: pick one, put it in the car, then drive home for an hour. You will question your decision for at least 59 and a half minutes. But isn’t it a beauty? Also, notice how the veil extended further on the drive home. What a cool mushroom—one I didn’t think I would ever find.

Shortly after the close of the NAMA Yoop Foray I found these beautiful (and tasty) Hericiums just down the street from ...
08/31/2026

Shortly after the close of the NAMA Yoop Foray I found these beautiful (and tasty) Hericiums just down the street from where I life. These are coral tooth Hericiums. NAMA (North American Mycological Association)

A private outing today: had a great foraging trip with Jason and Melissa and visited a place where neither one had ever ...
08/23/2026

A private outing today: had a great foraging trip with Jason and Melissa and visited a place where neither one had ever been. Mushrooms were not the target today, instead we were after blackberries, chokecherries, and whatever remnants of raspberries and blueberries we could find. (Not much.) Despite the dry conditions as of late, we still found plenty of nice blackberries, plus the chokecherries were thick! (Now is the time to get them, folks. They are everywhere.) We even got into a bonus patch of beeked hazelnuts that were also plentiful. It’s very tough to get those before the critters do. The weather was awesome and so were my companions. What a fun trip and a nice haul of free goodies that not everyone takes advantage of.

Ok, that’s it, I’m officially (not officially) done picking blueberries. The few that I found today were very soft and s...
08/11/2026

Ok, that’s it, I’m officially (not officially) done picking blueberries. The few that I found today were very soft and squishy and would fall off the bushes before I could even pick them. ☹️ However…the day was not a total loss. I got a new girl now. 😉

Ok, just hear me out. Yes, I said I was going to stop picking blueberries. Twice. But first of all, I had my fingers cro...
08/03/2026

Ok, just hear me out. Yes, I said I was going to stop picking blueberries. Twice. But first of all, I had my fingers crossed—which is legal and would pretty much stand up in court—and second, I was actually picking mushrooms and the blueberries were an afterthought until I found a patch of HUGE ones. See for yourselves. BTW, you should see the blueberries I had to leave behind! 😩 (for now)

Within one of my favorite mushroom foraging spots is about a 25 square foot area that produces some oddities every year....
07/31/2026

Within one of my favorite mushroom foraging spots is about a 25 square foot area that produces some oddities every year. Each of the last two years I’ve found gilled boletes and these Lilac-Brown boletes. (Sutorius eximius) This is a beautiful, rock-solid bolete that’s very eye-catching. Both times I’ve found them growing in the middle of a dirt road with a few others close by just into the woods. The conjoined twins pictured here filled my hand and weighed 7.5 oz between the two. A real looker. 🤩

Besides scrounging out in the woods for free food, I also grow some of my own. (The grapes you see here are actually in ...
07/26/2026

Besides scrounging out in the woods for free food, I also grow some of my own. (The grapes you see here are actually in my neighbor’s yard but she doesn’t use them so she lets me train them into my yard.) I usually have a decent little assortment and am trying new things all the time. It’s a rewarding project (usually) and doesn’t require a ton of work.

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