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Come pick some fresh morel mushrooms.

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Morel mushrooms

Morels have long since been the treasured ingredients of epicureans. When spring comes, people all over the world venture out into woods and forests in hopes of finding wild morels to grace their dinner tables. But it is not an easy and simple task – morels are evasive – and mor often than not, people come home empty-handed.

Attemptations to be able to raise morels as any other crops, like potatoes and cabbages, must have been tried for decades if not centries. And in 1980’s, an American R. D. Ower successfully harvested morel mushrooms from growing boxes. A patent of this technology was later filed and granted. But for not-very-clear reasons production of morel mushrooms by this technology ceased a few years later. Then Chinese took over the flag and, from the beginning of this century have started mass production of morel mushrooms. It started from the Sichuan basin where climate there is warm and wet, and has spread to all over the country from the east coastal area to western province of Xinjiang, and from subtropical provinces of Yunnan and Fujian all the way up to Heilongjiang province boarded with Russia and Mongolia.