User_Name:
The_Girl
Date:
Monday, January 31, 2011
Time:
09:35:33 PM

Messages

Lookin for some of the crew from Clinton. Jodi? Martin? Chuck? Guy? We already found Uncle Bob! Hope to here from someone soon! Its almost time! email us at sedmondson@live.ca


User_Name:
Keith Hunter
Date:
Monday, January 31, 2011
Time:
05:09:39 PM

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wild side---It was a good experience over in Creston. I like being able to meet different people in different regions and see how similar the challenges are for small businesses to develop around principles of fair trade and niche markets. The training doesn't include things such as you are asking about in terms of business development and how to create market connections. It is focused on HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points) and Traceability. We will be doing more training sessions this year. I am thinking that if you can come up with a group of about 20 or more people in your area that would like this training maybe we could get a session to your region.


User_Name:
wild side
Date:
Monday, January 31, 2011
Time:
01:49:34 PM

Messages

Thanks all. I'm always learning and I can only hope to be asking good questions. Hey Keith, Creston was too far for us to travel and not at a good time (bummer for us). How was the turn out and response? In the seminar, is there a component that address' how to market and create business connections? If there is a seminar closer to the East Koot's we'll be there. Please keep us on the email list and we'll also check in on your website. Dshroom, i've also had interesting comments from some inexperienced chefs regarding morels from the forest. Anything organic (esp. morels -natural or fire) from the forest is bound to have some insects, almost impossible not to?! One target to educate could be chefs.


User_Name:
DShroom
Date:
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Time:
08:12:58 PM

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As far as dealing with a new buyer/seller relationship in terms of consumer protection, I find that a reputation for quality and honesty is a very good start. My experience with oversight, particularly government oversight, is that it a costly bureaucratic thing. You are basically dealing with an organic product to begin with and as long as the product is fresh, I have rarely seen problems. And bad mushrooms look like bad mushrooms.... My credo is that I would never sell anything I wouldn't eat myself. Once a chef swore up and down that there were "worms" in my morels because it was that type of year. He actually cooked them up for me and was about to serve them to me when he changed his mind. I guess I looked too eager to eat them. My point is how do you know anything you buy is good--knowledge of your product and experience. And it goes back again to a reputable seller. (I hate to tell you how most of the "inspected" meat nad chicken is handled in this country). But in this field and in this market small wild mushroom companies/sellers are probably doing handstands to establish that their products are quality products.


User_Name:
ghostman52
Date:
Friday, January 28, 2011
Time:
10:51:07 PM

Messages

IS THERE ANYONE BUYING WINTER MUSHROOMS IN THE EUGENE,ROSEBURG, LINN COUNTY,AREAS?I ONLY PICK THE VERY BEST HEDGEHOGS,YELLOWFEET,ECT.


User_Name:
bugeye
Date:
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Time:
06:23:08 PM

Messages

HI Rick from Terrace, Hello to Ray in Cranbrook, and a special hello to Norm, hope all is good! Take Care. From Bugeye,shaker Baker, phone me


User_Name:
Keith Hunter
Date:
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Time:
10:40:31 PM

Messages

Crescent shroomer----having a "get a clue class" is a great idea LOL


User_Name:
Keith Hunter
Date:
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Time:
10:38:22 PM

Messages

wildside---the GACP Training does have a component on traceability and record keeping. I thought you were going the training session we had in Creston a couple of months ago? The training is for food safety and traceability but we do speak about ethical harvesting practices. It is not a session on teaching pickers harvesting practices in the sense of the damage that happens that some people on here talk about---I do think that is a very important subject but I think when we look at damage to mushroom patches (or other non timber resources) that included in changing that damage the logging practices have to be included also. The logging does far more damage to ecosystems than pickers do (not that it makes anyone damaging the forest less responsible for what they do)


User_Name:
wild side
Date:
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Time:
02:03:04 PM

Messages

thank you crescent shroomer (sustainable buyers should become aware of the Training Session to aid in educating sustainable pickers). can anyone explain methods used by buyers and their link to accountability/ traceability, (be it traditional or new ways). also, how does someone begin relationships with buyers from buyers ? weilerhart@shaw.ca


User_Name:
Crescent shroomer
Date:
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Time:
11:21:41 AM

Messages

Could someone send a memo out to foriegn pickers about the training session coming up there the ones who need to get a clue befor the destroy the hole forrest.


User_Name:
Keith Hunter
Date:
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Time:
09:37:14 PM

Messages

Hello everyone---There will be a two day training session on Good Agriculture and Collection Practices (GACPs) in Williams Lake, BC on February 16 & 17, 2011. There is more information on our website http://www.firstnationswildcrafters.com/WilliamsLakeGACPTraining.html


User_Name:
A''
Date:
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Time:
08:37:31 PM

Messages

Thanks DShroom and but I have the order filled and when the call comes for something and I can't find any around here I'll put the call out for them,Thanks again.........A"............


User_Name:
me too
Date:
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Time:
05:12:46 PM

Messages

i got 60 lbs pines,50 lbs morels and some king boletes 15 lbs. all 2010 .contact @ r2421@telus.net. very nice product


User_Name:
DShroom
Date:
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Time:
03:56:52 PM

Messages

To A: Have at least five pounds of dried #1 matsutake. Write with particulars to: Wild.mushroom@hotmail.com


User_Name:
Crescent shroomer
Date:
Monday, January 24, 2011
Time:
07:54:31 PM

Messages

Wildside, usually the mushrooms are shipped from buyer either straight to airport for commercial flight then regraded or sent to a warehouse regraded then shipped, shipping does damage some of the good grade so theres always a regrade somewhere and for the most part there shipped overseas or wherever in a day or two to assure quality and freshness. or they could ship them to a warehouse and cut and dry them.


User_Name:
wild side
Date:
Monday, January 24, 2011
Time:
06:29:05 PM

Messages

what steps do buyers out there take to protect the consumer ( a check and balance for a one up one down traceability system) ??? em : weilerhart@shaw.ca


User_Name:
Crescent shroomer
Date:
Monday, January 24, 2011
Time:
11:13:52 AM

Messages

Well said lobo nothing worse the hitting the patch and seeing nothing but trash on the forest floor i went into one of my old matsi patches this year and this patch is only half mile long by 300 maybe 400 yards and i picked up 20 plus energy drinks water and soda bottles ect... i also know what you mean about tin foil theres a hispanic crew in one of my old patches i caught them one day with a pit fire heating up there burritos, couldnt agree more you pack it in pack it out and your right no ones perfect nothing worse than pointing fingures i'am guilty myself for leaving trash lay around and i'am a guilty firefighter who has left burnt hose in the woods, befor in my younger years but know i do my part to help clean it up and who smokes out of a can pipe now a days? lol! I also love packing out some ones beer can markers i once new a old boy that would do that probablly cause he was to wasted to find the place again i would go behind and pick them up also guilty of moving a few into dead zones lol! good days to all and happy hunting, once again your right now one is perfect and if you think you are your full of yourself!


User_Name:
Lobo ....
Date:
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Time:
07:30:36 PM

Messages

I find it best to not point a finger if three of them are still pointing back at me. Not one of us is perfected; I look at trash as part of my research. I have often found tin foil miles inside of a burn with a few fish bones and rice grains still inside. I am sure that we all see soda, beer & energy drink cans as well as water bottles on the ground or shoved in a burned-out root hole, but without fingerprints who is to say what about whom, it is easy to crush the can and place it in with my picked morels or pack bag. {If you are one who marks a patch or visible, established hiking trail with can-on-a-branch, then it may be in a trash can miles away by the time you return, sorry.} I photo document partially burned as well as other fire hoses and items left by firefighter crews. In college they taught us that orange peels are not bio-degradable and that future archeologists would be studying them in fossilized form, please pack them out. As for drug pipes etc left where little children might be harmed by their curiosity, it would be a great ‘eternal’ shame on any guilty party. I documented a home-made ‘smoking can’ in the Silver Lake burnsite and believed at the time that it was left at a parking spot by a user-buyer who had been in the area, but only those who were actually using it know for sure. Deer & elk hunters often leave piles of beer cans or trash bags full of such garbage, is it too heavy to put in their truck for the drive home? I do pick up trash and often photo-document it prior to disposing of it properly, perhaps some day I will publish photos in a blog-of-shame.


User_Name:
TK
Date:
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Time:
06:16:54 PM

Messages

My real name is Marion Seyfarth, August, you have more user names on this board than Carter has liver pills! old hippie is just one of them! "A", LostMorel, Mad Morel, Phanthom, ect,ect!


User_Name:
TK
Date:
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Time:
06:15:33 PM

Messages

My real name is Marion Seyfarth, August, you have more user names on this board than Carter has liver pills! old hippie is just one of them! "A", LostMorel, Mad Morel, Phanthom, ect,ect!


User_Name:
Julie
Date:
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Time:
09:30:19 AM

Messages

Hi anyone know if there is a salal buyer in the duncan area thats open and there phone number thanks.


User_Name:
Buyer info
Date:
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Time:
07:03:09 AM

Messages

Does anyone know of any Truffle buyers around Eugene, Corvallis, Lebanon area?


User_Name:
A''
Date:
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Time:
12:48:19 AM

Messages

what this I read TK,be man enough to us my real name? and slander. Wow that's big word's coming from you!. but if the the hippie was right then I'll back him up 110% on that. I gave up on that long ago and I don't need to say a thing about,you have do it to yourself without help from me. August Steinborn......That's my real name!........old hippie good job but back off on him he's mine.......Hippie if you have some dryed matsutake I could use some, I need about 20lbs.


User_Name:
Tinker
Date:
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Time:
04:33:20 PM

Messages

At least four months before the morels start to pop.The winter doldrums are setting in! :-( Hope everyone had a great holiday season,and all the best to all for a great new year!


User_Name:
Shoegy
Date:
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Time:
07:56:53 AM

Messages

Yeah,spring mushrooms just around the corner!


User_Name:
TK
Date:
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Time:
07:41:33 AM

Messages

Be man enough to use your name"A" if your gonna spout slander!


User_Name:
wild side
Date:
Friday, January 21, 2011
Time:
08:00:17 PM

Messages

any ideas how to import mushrooms from one country into another the most cost effective and effecient way? weilerhart@shaw.ca


User_Name:
Rainbow Warrior
Date:
Friday, January 21, 2011
Time:
03:01:06 PM

Messages

fiddlehead heaven........yes he was laid to rest beside his parents out at boothryd half way between bb and Lytton. and yes I wish it would have been many others instead of him.


User_Name:
"Old Hippie"
Date:
Friday, January 21, 2011
Time:
12:17:48 PM

Messages

Well said there Lobo & Truffle Dog and for you Tk,I do believe lobo; was talking about your beer cans and your glass pipe. I also could say more but that would the wrong thing to do on Matsimans board. I also don't care about Chris Matherly and Jack, Truffle Dog is right on and A' knows that as well so you would be better off to keep your mouth to you self before others turn on you.You do remember Joe, the Buyer who help you out when you needed help! and what did you do to help him, not a thing. Next time help those that help,get it!!


User_Name:
bugeye
Date:
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Time:
09:58:10 PM

Messages

Dear Dirty Dan . Bug-eye here how are you doing you gravey sucking pig.Hope your keeping well


User_Name:
TK
Date:
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Time:
11:22:27 AM

Messages

'A' and I shared a campsite that was no where near the river!


User_Name:
Lone Lobo
Date:
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Time:
10:23:22 AM

Messages

I did not arrive at the Crow Creek burnsite until fall of that year when came to research fall mushrooms between there and Mt. Rainier National park. I found no morels to photograph but I did photo-document lots of trash at a river crossing campsite, even a discarded pipe of the 'crack' variety I presumed which was near loads of surface human waste. It is so sad that folks feel the need to discard hazardous waste which leaves an eyesore for other campers.


User_Name:
TruffleDog
Date:
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Time:
09:29:06 AM

Messages

After being used and discarded by Chris Matherly, I really don't think that A' is defending him. A' didn't write that. A' has no need to use transference in this situation. Chris apparently does. "greed is a powerful thing and most mushroom consumers haven't a clue what's involved with the harvest let alone the profit/expence ratio. c. matherly may have an opportunity to shed some much needed light on this. i don't know the guy or what his goals are.(?)" Chris will not be able to shed any light on making a living by picking mushrooms. He may have a cursory understanding of the process but he attempts to make his living by publicizing mushrooms, not collecting them. I am having the problem that I have with Jack Czarnecki and Chris Matherly when they come to the west coast is that they take information from actual working people and sell it to tourists as their own. Chris just showed up here because he saw an opportunity to cash in on the knowledge of the locals. Jack just showed up here because he wanted to cash in on the knowledge of the locals. How does Chris from the midwest/east coast become an expert on northwestern mushrooms? The same way that Jack did, by finding a local to educate them. Through their associations with working people in the industry, Chris and Jack are now spokes people for US. It really is time that carpet baggers like these take a back seat to those that have paid their dues.


User_Name:
TK
Date:
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Time:
08:51:00 AM

Messages

Also, your composing your sentences like August and I would really hate to think August is defending you!


User_Name:
TK
Date:
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Time:
08:40:06 AM

Messages

Well hi there Chris, do you remember the Crow Creek burn that you brought the so called Discovery Channel Crew to film? My family and I had picked on that little hundred acre burn from the beginning along with August and his family! I know you remember my daughters wolf, so do you remember me now? Anyway you and your crew went in and slayed the shit out of what was left of the crop after asking us to back out and let you guys "just film the mushrooms"!


User_Name:
wild side
Date:
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Time:
04:03:00 AM

Messages

bamfield field station -Van Is, anyone been there? i've a few questions about the beach and its facilities. please email weilerhart@shaw.ca our young family is wanting to attend the mushroom gathering there in the fall.


User_Name:
wild side
Date:
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Time:
03:51:49 AM

Messages

shroomertom, congrats on raising your children while on the harvest. a fun and challenging thing to do. we sortof do that during our spring, then fall harvest season as up here its freezing cold during the winter months. roasting FTO coffee is slowly taking traction. over the past few years, our personnal experience has been that super clean mushrooms can be sold at three times non clean. usually now with just a phone call and they're gone but on a small scale. the dried market is doing well also. it is concerning that from what is posted here that the harvestor is so taken advantage of, but, years go on yet little changes. with gas prices on the rise and will certainly continue to, there's a dark cloud a comin' so best to prepare - how as a whole community i'm at a loss. greed is a powerful thing and most mushroom consumers haven't a clue what's involved with the harvest let alone the profit/expence ratio. c. matherly may have an opportunity to shed some much needed light on this. i don't know the guy or what his goals are.(?) well, best of luck to y'all and one thing we remember is the deep felt joy we get from connecting with the natural world and sharing it with our kids and friends. so many are becoming disconnected or never were. also, sorry to learn about a comrade passing (we'll see you soon enough one day). finally, i'm seeking to buy dried king boletes. email weilerhart@shaw.ca


User_Name:
Chris
Date:
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Time:
10:12:29 PM

Messages

Tk, I really would to know what I was lying to you about. I don't like to say this but if anyone was lying it's you.


User_Name:
TK
Date:
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Time:
10:05:24 AM

Messages

Thanks TruffleDog, I looked at the link. I'm surprised that Chris is able to do any more forays! I know from personal experience from a small burn three years ago that he is a lying peace of sh8t!


User_Name:
TruffleDog
Date:
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Time:
09:47:46 PM

Messages

Bored this afternoon. Found a couple of non-union guys that have formed their own union. http://www.morelmushroomhunting.com/2010_Truffle_Foray.htm How long will they need each other? Good luck Chris. Good luck Jack. Good luck anyone that pays Chris Matherly of the Morel Mushroom Hunting Club to attend any foray. Good luck to anyone that shows Jack anything. Is Jack really selling hard earned info to Chris second hand? I guess if it is handed to you the info has no value.


User_Name:
Crescent shroomer
Date:
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Time:
12:10:58 PM

Messages

Just wanted to correct myself dont like spreading false info. Filgar owned a house in dorris not weed sorry got them mixed up. happy hunting!


User_Name:
Fiddlehead Heaven
Date:
Monday, January 17, 2011
Time:
09:36:31 PM

Messages

Rainbow Warrior, sorry to hear about Frank. Too bad it wasn't Dave the welder instead !! Am coming through next June, would like to stop and pay my respects. Is he at rest in Boston Barr ? Dwight in New Brunswick


User_Name:
Joe
Date:
Monday, January 17, 2011
Time:
07:27:39 PM

Messages

Shroomertom Look forward to buying some of your boletes this spring Joe Central Oregon


User_Name:
Shroomertom
Date:
Monday, January 17, 2011
Time:
06:50:32 PM

Messages

Havn't seen John in a long while. I used to go to Patrick Falwell (Wild West) in K-Falls--he had a slightly easier grade and really loved his boletes. (When Arlee Smith and he were buying together it was almost like a stand-up comedy team.) After that bout with flesh-eating disease and the house burning down, Patrick seemed to have dropped from the scene as well.


User_Name:
Crescent shroomer
Date:
Monday, January 17, 2011
Time:
01:23:47 PM

Messages

Well shroomer tom sounds like weed is worse than i remember, we used to go sell there sometimes we had a friend who owned a house and bought out of his garage you might know him( john filgar) good guy tough grader lol! sounds like he might of got pushed out lost his number and havent been down that way in a few years. he used to mechanic for mercedes in k. falls might of went back. Pretty messed up when buyers try playing some one like that might of been able to if he was the only buyer there at the time.


User_Name:
Shroomertom
Date:
Monday, January 17, 2011
Time:
12:09:43 PM

Messages

Didn't get their names.


User_Name:
Tk
Date:
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Time:
08:44:51 PM

Messages

Ok, ITK! We gonna have some fun next weekend!!!


User_Name:
TK
Date:
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Time:
08:42:50 PM

Messages

Shroomertom, what two Asian buyers? I'm courious! I just want to know if I've dealt with them too!


User_Name:
Shroomertom
Date:
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Time:
07:52:10 PM

Messages

Oregon Ridge Walker: The kids of yours I've met turned out fine! My wife and I raised 4 kids on the mushroom circuit in a 17' motor home (hence some called us "Smurfs".) People are going to take advantage of an economic crisis--here's where my BA Magna cum laude kicks in--wage rates typically crash during a depression (to pay off all the scams and frauds run by the financial oligarchs, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, etc. during the boom). HOWEVER. The prices being charged to the restaurants by the companies haven't gone down much (if any). I had to live in my car for 6 months last year. Maybe this year the companies will have it up to 8 or even 10 while they sit in their fancy digs and whine to me about "privation"!!! As for not buying hogs--ugh! I just started picking some. I guess it's hog stuffing, hog soup, marinated hogs, etc.!


User_Name:
itk
Date:
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Time:
07:41:40 PM

Messages

Its all good TK! Now its time to smack the pack! Im from IL. originally and have da bears in my blood!


User_Name:
shroomertom
Date:
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Time:
07:30:14 PM

Messages

Right on, Crescent Shroomer! There is justice in the world. The buyer you referred to (who paid me $3 while paying everyone else $4-$5 in early matsie season this year) got blown out of the water I heard in Weed. Seems two Asian buyers moved in and his crews started selling all their boletes to them instead. Used to be good picking there before being ruined. Some of the crew bosses even purchased whole motels in Weed. Looks like a SE Asian village--toddlers running around with no pants, dogs scavenging and laundry hanging everyplace. Back in 2004 this buyer was at Silver Lake buying morels off the burn. We were selling him about 40% of his shrooms. One day I came in with a whole van full. "Sorry, Tom," he said, "the price just crashed. It's down to $4." I went down thre road to where Carl Houk was buying. "What's the price?" I asked. "Same--$6. Nothings changed." So we started unloading. The buyer you refer to, when he saw all the shrooms, came running down the highway (pavement about 110 degrees) in his bare feet, waving his arms and shouting "Tom, come back, the price just went back up!" Needless to say, I stopped selling to him and he left a few days later.


User_Name:
TK
Date:
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Time:
04:59:33 PM

Messages

Lets have some fun! Way to go ITK!


User_Name:
ITK
Date:
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Time:
03:28:20 PM

Messages

Sorry TK but the Bears gotcha. No way a losing record is making it to the Championship game. BEARS!


User_Name:
TK
Date:
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Time:
01:31:01 PM

Messages

OK, I'm eating some humble pie! GO GREEN BAY PACKERS!


User_Name:
TK
Date:
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Time:
07:49:03 PM

Messages

"old shoe face" ok August, ChickenHawks over the Bears and GreenBay comes to Seattle!


User_Name:
"old shoe face"
Date:
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Time:
07:37:36 PM

Messages

Go Green... bay..... all..... the..... way. eat that....TK


User_Name:
Oregonridgewalker
Date:
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Time:
11:51:00 PM

Messages

Same s different day.. every year we pick these mushrooms ,we sell these mushrooms for what we can get . we think we should be treated fairly but usually we get screwed . this year has been the worst prices that i have seen if someone out thier gives a shit about the pickers or the buyers then they should help them. I have been picking,buying mushrooms for about 25 years in Sutherlin,Oregon, raised 5 children all five have graduated from High School , now two in colledge I am paying about 1000.00 a month to keep them in school .I do work 7 days a week ,two shifts first picking then buying every night . when the prices drop so does the volume. for instance tonite I am closed on hogs and feet prices too low on the mushrooms i am buying which are chants and blacks the prices are 3 and 3 .these prices are set by the company i buy for and in my opinion are so rediculious that I think that this will be my last year in this business unless someone that is not greedy will employ me and my fellow pickers and pay us fairly David


User_Name:
Crescent shroomer
Date:
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Time:
02:59:36 PM

Messages

Totally agree truffledog lived in crescent my whole life saw everything your talking about these companies buyers weasled there way making you think they could be your buddy next thing you know there asking if will take coke bottle danny{that little XXX still around cave junction?} to our patches ooops!! nexted thing you now you got a crew following you everywhere. Any one ever pick mount hoffman in cali? 4 of us picked 29 baskets in one day the following week were asked to take a guy named martane down with us not as big of an ooops but ooops at least he would show us some area back! Still a big ooops cause the following year dick head mike sevens put a buyer down in dorris oooops hoffman GONE!!! crawling with littering XXX faces!! Our family is one of the few who kept picking there alot of locals gave up when everyone started showing up running through the woods with automatic weapons trying to intemidate people well never worked on us i guess we were probably a little crazier than they wanted to be lol! we lost alot of ground just by agreeing to take someone with us thinking we might benefit in the end sure we made good money and usually got a $1 more for our clean mushrooms but was it really worth it in the long run? NOOOOOOO! it came down to GREED!!! always does with MOST people!


User_Name:
justed pissed
Date:
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Time:
12:29:22 PM

Messages

gas is over 5 bucks a gallon here in northern bc.i think its time to retire the patches.hang up the boots.the buyers here only paid 1.50 a lb this year. jacked it up for the first week and them down to a 1.00. while the buyers got $1.50 a lb. good for all them brokers. very poor to the pickers. it cost us this season.not worth it no more. time to stomp the mushrooms in the patch..if its going to be like this.no one will get much from any my patches. a volume picker going crazy. good luck


User_Name:
TruffleDog
Date:
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Time:
08:30:43 AM

Messages

Go ahead, quit picking and watch another new labor force emerge. One of the reasons for the crews (crescent, trout lake, etc.) is that local pickers in the mid-80s quit picking for companies they did not like (another reason is skyrocketing demand). These companies and fledgling companies imported the labor to insure their acquisition of crops. The companies were able to do this because they got the bed location information from the "locals" that sold to them and some of the locals became field operatives for the companies. My greatest gripe is about mushroom companies (especially "new" truffle buyers) that only bring money to the equation. They attempt to act as though they have something new to offer to the customers and landowners but it is the same product everyone else has and the landowners just get greedy when educated or restrict collection on their lands (look at the BLM, for example, since they have demanded the locations from mushroom pickers in order to issue permits, they have restricted access to the crops, concentrated the permits issued to certain sections and raised the permit fees). The landowners are used to hiring cheap labor and think that of a mushroom picker as another source of revenue to be milked for all the market can bear. New companies have no new customer base, no picker base and no land base. They care for nothing but their money and intend to maximize the use of it. Of course, that means that someone else has to give a share of their pie to the money man. I must like my pie a bit more than the scabs like their pie but the shear number of scabs is becoming overwhelming. Truffle price for scabs able to sell truffles in Portland or Seattle: limited quantity sales, $40 per pound for blacks, $15 for whites, about 25% to 50% of "union" prices. How does this hurt the market? The big companies that deal with scab labor are able to offer cheaper prices to my customers than I pay my crew. I offer a better product and personal service so I have customer retention. There are a few good mushroom companies out there, mostly started by pickers for pickers. I am labor. I am management. I am the union.


User_Name:
crescentshroomer
Date:
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Time:
10:51:00 AM

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Ghostman52 i respect that keep us up to date with this top dollar buyer stuff hope it works out for ya my dad and i are having an uncle establish something with his overseas broker friends and hopefully it goes well if so never under 10 a pound 1's 2's matsi's i'am not greedy i know money's the root of all evil. exspecially if gas hits $5 by next season yikes, definetly keep posted i will bring QUALITY CLEAN MUSHROOMS to you for top dollar if are thing dont go through did i mention CLEAN MUSHROOMS!!!


User_Name:
ghostman52
Date:
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Time:
09:13:36 AM

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Is there anyone else out there who is so sick of going out and spending $3.20 a gallon for gas,looking all over hell for the very best mushrooms out there,have a permit to legally pick and sell,treat everyone out there with respect and respect others picking spots,but yet when you go in to sell them the buyers treat you with very little respect and give you next to nothing for a quality product while the mexicans and aisan brothers are treated like long lost brothers taking their products and laughing and acting like they"ve known them their whole life!While we"re venting can I also ask for a universal grading system where all the buyers must adhere to!What was good today is not good tomorrow depending on the buyers mood or location!Beware next year there will be another sheriff in town,a buyer who will give respect to all that give respect and a price that wont be beat any where in the state!The wheels are in motion now so stay tuned.I NEED TO KNOW YOUR GREATEST GRIPES AND WE WILL TRY TO SOLVE YOUR PROBLEMS BUT REMEMBER ROME WAS NOT BUILT IN A DAY!


User_Name:
itk
Date:
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Time:
09:28:41 PM

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Ok TK how about twice in one season in this lifetime lol! Good luck. I rooted for the birds this week but not next! Take er easy.


User_Name:
"Phantom Writer"
Date:
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Time:
12:54:47 PM

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Seahawks over Chicago; Green Bay over Falcons. Tk; Don't call them chickenhawks, that's for a team that can't make the grade and dose not make it to a play off. Seattle made it there and won the first round and they were last Years super bowl chump's. They got there ;and they believe in there self's and there well be in the SuperBowl and History well be made. "GO....ALL....THE.....WAY.......


User_Name:
TK
Date:
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Time:
08:27:36 AM

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itk, everyone in the South knows that ChickenHawks are always a threat! We already beat them once in Chicago this season! So hold your breath, but don't chouck on your humblepie!


User_Name:
itk
Date:
Monday, January 10, 2011
Time:
02:10:42 PM

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TK, Aint no way in hell seattle is winning in chicago. Not in this lifetime.


User_Name:
TK
Date:
Monday, January 10, 2011
Time:
12:18:19 PM

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Well, the way things are set up, the Falcons play the Packers Saturday and the Falcons will win! The SeaHawks play the Bears on Sunday, and I think the SeaHawks can win! Then it would be between the Falcons and the Seahawks for our division! Lets see what happens!


User_Name:
Crescent shroomer
Date:
Monday, January 10, 2011
Time:
11:24:53 AM

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My teams the RAIDERS but with a disfunctional owner not sure will be in the playoffs anytime soon, this season was are best chance now were getting rid of people for some reason! GREEDY!! thats it!


User_Name:
A''
Date:
Monday, January 10, 2011
Time:
01:20:59 AM

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I'll stay with Seattle, Because I well not stop summing half way across the lake, if it is deep. I've been there 12th man and they well not give up....All.....the....Way......The Dream Team.


User_Name:
crescentshroomer
Date:
Sunday, January 09, 2011
Time:
10:50:34 PM

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I'am with you on atlanta but it will be a tough one got them against new england cant stand them so go atlanta!!


User_Name:
oregonridgewalker
Date:
Sunday, January 09, 2011
Time:
10:22:59 PM

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Sutherlin,tonite Chants 3.00 Hogs 1.50 Trumpets 3.00 Feet .50


User_Name:
bjt
Date:
Saturday, January 08, 2011
Time:
11:04:05 PM

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prices for winters anyone, brookings, willits, sutherlin


User_Name:
TK
Date:
Saturday, January 08, 2011
Time:
11:00:32 PM

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Anyone care to predict a Super Bowl Winner! I predict the Atlanta Falcons! The ChickenHawks did good with the Saints, but it's over now! Go Falcons!!!


User_Name:
TK
Date:
Saturday, January 08, 2011
Time:
10:11:58 PM

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WHO DAT, DONE BEAT THEM SAINTS! HA ha ha ha ha! GO FALCONS!!!


User_Name:
forest
Date:
Friday, January 07, 2011
Time:
04:17:02 PM

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Hello, I have several hundred pounds of dried @ fresh Chaga mushroom for sale. Contact: forestedibledelights@yahoo.com I accept all major credit cards.


User_Name:
boratsutake
Date:
Thursday, January 06, 2011
Time:
09:38:43 PM

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Hope everyone has had matsi stuffed bird for Christmas...greeetings to all, albeit, belated


User_Name:
wild side
Date:
Thursday, January 06, 2011
Time:
07:05:43 PM

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good one Dirty Dan. All the BEst in the New Year friends ... may your patches be fruitful and without humanfootprints.


User_Name:
windwalker
Date:
Wednesday, January 05, 2011
Time:
03:52:24 PM

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not the same one i know, but my heart goes out to you and his family, you will be in my prayers. Thank you for the quick response....


User_Name:
Rainbow Warrior
Date:
Wednesday, January 05, 2011
Time:
02:21:04 PM

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Windwalker...........Frank Issac was a friend of mine,from Boston Bar, who ended up in the hospital with fluid in his lungs and after that he suffered a heart attack while in the hospital. He was in a coma and on life support and on sunday his kidneys failed and he went off to the great patch in the sky. R.I.P. buddy


User_Name:
windwalker
Date:
Tuesday, January 04, 2011
Time:
11:58:25 PM

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could you please explain what and when happened to Frank, also known as Deiter? I think he is the same one i knew....Thanks


User_Name:
Sula the rus
Date:
Tuesday, January 04, 2011
Time:
06:41:43 PM

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QUE, thanks; I guess, Jack you mention is a buyer? I guess one can check what's going on in Japantown S.-F. meanwhile, ha, as well as check with any asian upscale restaurants on the coast..?


User_Name:
TK
Date:
Monday, January 03, 2011
Time:
07:15:38 PM

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To who ever posted under my user name at 11:31:33, thanks for helping me!


User_Name:
TK
Date:
Monday, January 03, 2011
Time:
02:37:57 PM

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I like the mighty Quinn, but use your own name, to who ever made the last post!


User_Name:
TK
Date:
Monday, January 03, 2011
Time:
11:31:33 AM

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Come on with out you; come on with in: You not seen nothing like the mighty Morel Quinn. lol


User_Name:
just another picker
Date:
Monday, January 03, 2011
Time:
07:44:18 AM

Messages

any word on Deitmar yet?.........hope he just went awol although it doesnt sound good from what i read on the message board.....


User_Name:
QUE
Date:
Sunday, January 02, 2011
Time:
11:39:26 PM

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Sula the rus, I'll find Jacks#, Smilely Jack and post back when I can.


User_Name:
crescent shroomer
Date:
Sunday, January 02, 2011
Time:
10:26:06 PM

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I dont bitch about it i just go archery hunting when thats done i just pick for fun as long as the tanks full just wandering the woods is good enough for me!


User_Name:
Sula the rus
Date:
Sunday, January 02, 2011
Time:
10:09:25 PM

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Guys, I am new and in North. CA; think this year is crazy. Never did anything like commercial harvest and money. WHERE TO FIND BUYERS??


User_Name:
Rainbow Warrior
Date:
Sunday, January 02, 2011
Time:
09:27:36 PM

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Didn't think my first post of the new year would be one of great sadness with a very dear friend passing on to the Great Patches in the Sky.........Good bye Frank you will be missed by many, and we will look after your sacred patches in B.B. Forever in our hearts and minds, Goodbye for now buddy.


User_Name:
TK
Date:
Sunday, January 02, 2011
Time:
08:45:05 PM

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When Quinn the Eskimoe gets here, everybody's gonna jump for Joy! So come on without, come with in, you've not seen nothing like the mighty Quinn! Your a good man ZiQuinn!!!


User_Name:
TK
Date:
Sunday, January 02, 2011
Time:
08:38:57 PM

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Good to see Randy and Quinn still take the time to check in and post! Happy New Year Every One!!!


User_Name:
"A''
Date:
Sunday, January 02, 2011
Time:
08:32:20 PM

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Why would you keep bitch'en lol; Zi Quinn. By the way; Zi Quinn do you know about the New Yakima Vally Mycological Society. Many people off have started a new Club and if you have time just e-mail me at Augustmoon1788@hotmail.com or look me up on Face book, "Augustmoon". I really fill you could have a big effect in the group. King Morel, How was box day back at home. I'm still looking foreword to hearing from you. Send me a e-mail and let's talk.


User_Name:
ZiQuinn
Date:
Sunday, January 02, 2011
Time:
04:30:22 PM

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To prove my point, there is one that will keep on bitch'en.. Like me!


User_Name:
kingmorel
Date:
Sunday, January 02, 2011
Time:
04:27:38 PM

Messages

Best of the season to all


User_Name:
Crescent shroomer
Date:
Sunday, January 02, 2011
Time:
12:30:02 PM

Messages

The thing is with taking a season of here in the states or canada is they have found matsi's in other country's sure there crops aint as big as ours but it would only hurt our market worse by allowing those other country's to ship more of there product and in the end less of ours, imagine the buyers quotas then 100 pounds give or take this year was ridiculous enough at 300 pounds for a few weeks.


User_Name:
Dirty Dan
Date:
Sunday, January 02, 2011
Time:
11:11:30 AM

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Seems like we All been writing a story . Only the story has been dragging on and on till there' s no end. Zi Quinn has just wrote the climax. Thanks Zi Quinn. Happy season to you all , whatever it may be.


User_Name:
ZiQuinn
Date:
Sunday, January 02, 2011
Time:
09:51:53 AM

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We talk as like all mushroom pickers are the same. Yet, just reading the mail here we see that pickers are a pluristic society within a society and as such, pick for different reasons. The only dynamic way I see to , "Shake" the industry is to all just quit picking for an undetermined period of time. That would change things within a years time. Price and availability. However, that is not going to happen because not all can just quit for a season. As the old story goes and today we still see it true, follow the money. Cut off the spigot for just one season and see what happens. What is actually going to happen is, some will just give it up. some will just keep on bitching. some will try to find a way to improve their lot. Good luck to all.


User_Name:
Boletus joe
Date:
Saturday, January 01, 2011
Time:
11:31:52 AM

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AND..A Happy New Year to everyone.... Of course it's about money.... money to buy the fuel to get you to the patch....money to get your truck fixed (again)..... and for ME enough money so that I can go on another adventure next season.... Thing is it seems to take more money every year....Hmmmmm. If I break even, see new ground and get home safely....I have had a good season.... Yes I have had exceptional seasons in the past... I repeat "In The Past" With the amount of hurting people out in the world today, it will only get harder.... So just enjoy it for what it is...... buy a camera, take some pictures, do some fishing, take the time to get to know what is going on in the area you are picking in... be a tourist. Meet and greet, have fun.... and above all don't be anell... Again HAPPY NEW YEAR


User_Name:
"Phantom Writer"
Date:
Saturday, January 01, 2011
Time:
03:53:02 AM

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I don't understand why we need to line are pocket with money!. It was good money back then and less people and more land for us to Rome?!. Stop and do some real thanking about it;is it money you were out for now day or the love of a good hunt for a pot of gold that other's like us have found and now have found bet's and peace's. I seam to find a patch or two now and then only to give it up to worm's. If you are really a true picker then you would not look for shrooms where there are many other's picking and why would you need to be near many buyer's. I prefer to to find new patch's now day's and still make extra cash also I have found new way's to enjoy the outdoors even take my camera along;you never know what you may find that other's well never in a life time. I have some photos on face book that I just posted from this year and more to post soon. If you have face book look for Augustmoon1788 and take a peek.


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