Each spring, questions circulate about some of the most desirable and delicious wild foods you can find in Ohio — morel mushrooms. Foraging for wild edibles is a topic that is incredibly challenging to address with clientele because proper identification of a plant or fungus can be the difference between a gourmet dinner and a grueling stomachache or worse, an untimely death.
Fortunately, morels are one of the easiest mushrooms to identify, but if you have any doubt that the mushrooms you have found are not true morels, you should not consume them or prepare them for others. There are false morels that appear in the same timeframe and habitat that are poisonous. Proceed to forage with caution.
If you are looking for permissible places to forage for morels, here is some advice:…