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Morel Fever Is Here: Mesick Mushroom Festival
Friday , 8, May 2015 Community, Environment Leave a commentMorel mushrooms began to pop out of the ground in the past week up north. So far, they’re slow and few due to lack of rain. Soaking rain in the southern part of Michigan hasn’t made it here at all. That’s keeping the morels from coming up the way we like. It’s also making Northern […]
Mother’s Day and Mesick, Michigan: May 9 through 11, 2014
Wednesday , 7, May 2014 Uncategorized Leave a commentIn two days the annual Mesick Mushroom Festival begins in the town of Mesick. Mushroom hunting is a time honored, sometimes-cutthroat tradition of spring in northern Michigan. Whether you hunt for the small black morels, the large, white-grey ones, or cross your fingers and say a prayer before feasting on “beefsteak” false morels, you know […]
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