Northern Michigan Morel Articles
May 2024 Events: Morels, Mother’s Day & Memorial Day Weekend
With spring in full bloom, there are plenty of reasons to celebrate May in Northern Michigan! From Mother's Day brunches to mushroom festivals, here are 30 events to put on your calendar this May 2024. This is a MyNorth.com exclusive. Want more? View our print...
Mushroom Care 101: How to Store Morels
So you’ve finally found some mushrooms! But what’s next?
Ashlyn’s Picks: 12 Spring Events to Round Out Your Weekend
We’re looking forward to another beautiful spring weekend in Northern Michigan! Explore these 12 local events and festivals taking place from May 18-21. Hosting an event? Let us know! info@mynorth.com. This is a web original article from the team at MyNorth Media and...
Ashlyn’s Picks: 15 Spring Events to Explore This Weekend
It's shaping up to be a beautiful spring weekend! If you're searching for the perfect way to get outdoors and explore the vibrant food, arts and small towns around Northern Michigan, here are 15 events taking place from May 12-14. Hosting an event? Let us know!...
May Events 2023: Mother’s Day, Memorial Weekend & Wine Month
With spring in full bloom, there are plenty of reasons to celebrate May in Northern Michigan! From Mother's Day brunches to Wine Month excursions, outdoor festivals and foodie adventures, here are 30+ Northern Michigan events to explore this month. Hosting an event?...
A Wild Foraged Dinner Featuring Morel Mushrooms & Lake Trout
Northern Michigan outdoorsman and cook Keefer Edwards offers up some of his favorite dishes, honored over years roaming the lakes and forest of his childhood backyard in Glen Arbor. This article first appeared in Traverse Northern Michigan. Find this story and more...
Foraging for Local Ramps & Morel Mushrooms + 3 Tasty Recipes
Spring foraging in Northern Michigan yields everything from morel mushrooms to ramps (also known as wild leeks). We're heading out into our local woods and fields to connect with our food—and each other. Plus, three recipes to try with your foraged finds. This spring,...
Morel Mushroom Recipe Ideas to Inspire Your Spring Spread
Morel mushroom hunting is a sure sign of spring in Northern Michigan. View some of our favorite recipes that allow the flavor of your freshly foraged morels to shine through!Whether you just finished morel hunting in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore or...
Tips for Morel Hunting in Sleeping Bear Dunes Lakeshore
PAID CONTENT Here in Northern Michigan, spring means we’re hunting for morel mushrooms, and one favorite spot is Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. A tell-tale sign foraging season has begun? Cars parked alongside M-22, their occupants walking toward the hills,...
Create a Foraged Feast with Morels in Northern Michigan
The gifts of Northern Michigan's woods find a place at our table as friends combine their talents for a foraged meal and nature-inspired decor. Featured in the May 2020 issue of Traverse, Northern Michigan's Magazine. Subscribe. What happens when good friends walk a...
The Magic of Morels in Northern Michigan
It would happen seemingly overnight. The silent intrusion of wrinkle-faced invaders standing sentry upon the gentle sandy slope in our neighbor's yard. Morel season had arrived in Northern Michigan.Dozens of morel mushrooms dotted the hill, clustered around fallen...
50 Foods a True Northern Michigander Will Try in Their Lifetime
The classic, the questionable and the crazy-good. These are the Northern Michigan foods you've just gotta try. Download a FREE Printable PDF version, to check off foods as your try them, here! Fish Boil Raw Maple Sap Traditional Pasty / The Pasty Oven, Quinnesec...
A Traverse City Wine Dinner Event You Have to Experience
PAID CONTENT An intimate Traverse City wine dinner brings together new friends and old to delight in the magic of expert wine and food pairings at Chateau Chantal.We turn onto a winding drive named Rue de Vin. The French words translate to "street of wine," aptly...
7 Northern Michigan Wine Events at Black Star Farms
As if we needed more reasons to visit Black Star Farms in Suttons Bay, the beautiful Northern Michigan winery is offering decadent monthly dinners throughout 2020. And if you're looking for more intimate Black Star Farms events, the winery also offers premium tastings...
183 Things We Love About the Mitten State in Honor of Michigan’s Birthday
On January 26, 1837, our beautiful mitten was granted statehood, which means the Great Lakes State is turning 183 years old! So, in celebration, we're sharing 183 things we absolutely adore about Michigan. We have the coolest shaped state And the nicest people Two...
The Moral of the Morel
Get ready as 'shroomers streak, sneak and tiptoe across Northern Michigan in search of morels. Featured in the May 2019 issue of Traverse Magazine. Get your copy. We call each other “’shroomers” as we set about ’shrooming in sacred, secret swales of aspen, ash and...
How to Find Morels: Tips from a Pro Forager
A forager returns to Northern Michigan to roam her homeland seeking morels and a connection with her father. Plus, tips on how to find morels.This article first appeared in Traverse Northern Michigan. Find this story and more when you explore our digital issue...
How to “Grow” Morels, Plus Recipes!
When Julie H. Case isn’t writing about travel, wine or weird science, she can be found deep in America’s forests, foraging for mushrooms, including morels, which she blogs about at soIgather.com. Below, she shares her tips on how to “grow” morels and three of her...
57th Annual National Morel Mushroom Festival
Celebrate spring in Northern Michigan with guided morel hunts, gourmet morel dishes, a craft beer block party, carnival rides, an arts and crafts show and more at Boyne City's 57th Annual National Morel Mushroom Festival May 18–21. The festival is known for its...
6 Tips For Finding Morel Mushrooms in Northern Michigan
After years of hunting for morel mushrooms, Eric LaPaugh, owner of Leelanau Adventures, has a lot of experience looking for the tasty morsels. Try these six tips for finding morel mushrooms in Northern Michigan. Timing is everything Morels grow best in spring,...
Traverse City Chef Shares Ramp Salad with Morel Breadsticks Recipe
Renowned Traverse City Chef Pete Peterson shares some of his favorite spring dishes with Traverse food and wine editor Tim Tebeau including this ramp and watercress salad with homemade morel breadsticks. Find more spring recipes by Pete here. Ramp and Watercress Salad...
Traverse City Chef Pete Peterson Shares Morel Gratin Recipe
Renowned Traverse City Chef Pete Peterson shares some of his favorite spring recipes including this morel gratin recipe with Traverse food and wine editor Tim Tebeau for the May 2016 issue of Traverse, Northern Michigan’s Magazine. Get more delicious spring...
5 Tips to Find More Morels in Northern Michigan
Improve your odds of finding morels in Northern Michigan with this hunter’s tip sheet. Cut it out, tape it to the fridge. It’s a distillation of tips from several morel experts whose advice we’ve tapped over the years. Know the concept of micro-environment. For...
Delicious Spring Recipes with Traverse City Chef Pete Peterson
Renowned Traverse City Chef Pete Peterson shares some of his favorite spring recipes with Traverse food and wine editor Tim Tebeau. It’s May in the North. Lowland patches pop with the green gyres of fiddlehead ferns, black morels flush under big tooth aspen, and...
Genetics Researchers Revolutionary Discovery About Morels
Morels vex us. They’re delicious but elusive. They’re visible, but seemingly invisible. They defy cultivation, setting the inscrutable terms of their own mysterious proliferation. Adding insult: there are even false morels. Found one! Oh, just kidding. If it’s any...
Rib-Eye Steaks Recipe With Northern Michigan Morel Sauce
This decadent rib-eye recipe featuring a Northern Michigan morel sauce will have you savoring spring. The recipe is by Ruth Mossok Johnston, author of the cookbook The Art of Cooking Morels. Find more of her remarkable recipes here. Rib-Eye Steaks with Red Zin-Morel...
Morel Mushrooms: How to Find, Store and Cook Morels
Tips on morels and morel mushroom hunting, as well as the how-to on cleaning morels as well as storing morels to cook with in the future.
Morel Hunting in Northern Michigan
English instructor James McCullough, at North Central Michigan College, in Petoskey, asked his students to write essays about Northern Michigan life. Then he asked MyNorth to share six of the essays on the World Wide Web. We said yes. We are posting one each weekday...
Morel Ice Cream in Northern Michigan
A creperie and ice cream shop in Charlevoix called That French Place recently opened its doors in downtown Charlevoix. The store serves authentic, homemade french crepes and ice cream made by Brian Freund of Brian's Ice Cream Experience. Inspired by spring edibles...
Northern Michigan Morel Mushroom Recipes
When spring arrives, trilliums unfold, leeks push their way to the surface and morel mushrooms start to crop up. It's a tasty season indeed. Read on for our favorite Northern Michigan morel mushroom recipes. Appetizers Stuffed Morels Breaded Morels Morel Bruschetta...