Dried leaves, bark scraps, fallen walnuts — just about everything on the forest floor looked like a morel. I was roughly 40 minutes into a forest trek to find morel mushrooms. The prized culinary ...

Kempenich calls himself the Gentleman Forager, and has made a business out of taking groups to search for edible fungi. Morel trips were some of the toughest for him, because there were few other ...