Targeted mushroom foraging

Mushroom hunting success is no accident. In this webinar, you'll learn how to find mushrooms strategically and successfully – without aimlessly wandering around. You'll discover which trees and plants serve as indicators, which locations are typical for certain species, and how to combine your mushroom knowledge with real terrain expertise. With concrete examples of edible species such as porcini, bay boletes, red-capped scaber stalks, or saffron milk caps. This turns searching into truly finding.

Learn in this webinar:
• Learn how to approach mushroom hunting systematically
• Understand the interaction of mushroom, tree, and soil
• Use indicator plants and companion trees for targeted finding
• Discover typical locations for popular edible mushrooms
• Practical examples: Red-capped scaber stalks under birches, porcini near beeches on low-calcium soils, saffron milk caps under pines, and purple wood blewits on deciduous forest floor with nettles
• Avoid common beginner mistakes when searching
• Ideal for anyone who wants to not just collect, but also understand
• Compact, practice-oriented, and immediately applicable out in the forest

Our Expert:
Nadja Frotscher-Kanka has been a mushroom coach since 2018 and a mushroom expert for the German Society for Mycology (DGfM) since 2020. She regularly offers coaching, training, and guided mushroom walks to infect people with her passion for mushrooms. On Instagram, she runs the channel @pilzcoachbadenweiler.

More about the expert:
https://www.pilzcoach-badenweiler.de/unsere-geschichte.html

Our Expert:
Moritz Schmid is a mushroom coach for the DGfM and a certified forest bathing course instructor. In workshops and retreats, he shares his love for nature and the forest and invites participants to discover the diversity of the mushroom world in an unconventional way. He creates spaces where nature, design, and a passion for mushrooms harmoniously merge. He not only teaches the safe identification of mushrooms to deepen the connection to nature in a holistic way. His unique flatlays, where he arranges collected mushrooms into spectacular mosaics, are an expression of his innovative connection to nature.

More about the expert:
https://www.intothewoods-mushrooms.com/

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Photo credit: Moritz Schmid