Tag: mushrooms

• Observing Dryad’s Saddle: The Forest’s Spotted Surprise

  You can see my observation on the iNaturalist site here. A Welcome Sight in Spring Today’s woodland walk brought a delightful surprise: a beautiful cluster of Dryad’s Saddle mushrooms, also known as Polyporus squamosus. This impressive bracket fungus often appears on dead or dying hardwood trees—particularly elm, maple, or box elder—and is a welcome herald…

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  June 4, 2025

  Environment, Farm, Garden, Naturalist, Observations

  foraging, fungi, Garden, mushrooms, Nature, Permaculture, photography

• Maple Days

  3/26/2022:Went to Thurman Maple Days in the Adirondacks today. This was our first time. Our first your was of Toad Hill Maple Farm. The operation was more high tech than I expected, with 2500 tree taps, a pipe system to funnel the sap to a central location, a reverse osmosis system to remove most of…

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  March 26, 2022

  Garden

  Maple, mushrooms