Finding food - - hunting for morels in my own backyard

As spring slowly creeps up on us here in the northern states, I'm looking forward to my first harvests of the season. Usually the first "vegetable" I pick is the elusive morel mushroom that springs up on my property and it appears just when the asparagus is at its best. Mushrooms, as they emerge from the ground, are one of nature's small miracles. The lawn and woods will be mushroom-free and suddenly after some moist weather, they will suddenly poke up, seemingly overnight.

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