XPost: alt.drugs.mushrooms, alt.drugs.psychedelics   
   From: norsgerm@a...........   
      
   "smitty"  wrote in message   
   news:MPG.1f8cc37d4eeb2d989714@news.x-privat.org...   
   > In article <12i5dj5fgkcso98@corp.supernews.com>, riburr@shentel.net   
   > says...   
   >> To be clear, I'm talking about actively searching/foraging for mushrooms   
   >> in the wild. Purposely culturing a specific type of mushroom is not my   
   >> interest (at this time). My personal needs, in both the psychedelic and   
   >> delicious realms, are fully satisfied by the mushrooms I find in the   
   >> wild.   
   >>   
   >>   
   > it just seems to me that if you are out in the wild searching and you   
   > happen   
   > upon a specific shroom that is interesting in some respect that before you   
   > place one of them in your bag if you scrape the gills while holding it   
   > close to the ground you create a possibility that when you come upon this   
   > same spot a week or so later there may be additional shrooms present that   
   > would not have otherwise been there. they are still in the wild and you   
   > did not actually culture them. you just helped nature do it. that is all.   
   > in this instance you would be making the rounds and not completely   
   > foraging, although foraging implies a labor that makes the fruit more   
   > special in some respects. in any case, good luck and nice exchanging   
   > posts with you.   
   Interesting exchange.   
   Foraging is not going out and gathering all that you find. Farming is   
   gathering all that grows in your field.   
   Foraging mushrooms is also an excuse to observe plants and animals in   
   different environments.   
   I used to 'monoculture' farm grain crops and diversity of nature in   
   gathering (foraging) is much more appealling to me.   
   Kurt   
      
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