Foraging for mushrooms this fall? Try inoculating at home instead

Most of us have probably heard of our friends or neighbors hunting for mushrooms, oftentimes combing woodlands for the elusive morel each spring. As luck would have it, fall is also a great time to find edible mushrooms growing in woodlands across Nebraska. Not all of us can make the time to join the hunt, but the good news is you can still satisfy your culinary curiosity by growing mushrooms at home.

Mushrooms are one of nature's premiere recyclers. They are technically macrofungi-a diverse group of organisms separate from plants and animals. In Nebraska, we can find fungi everywhere: soil, w...