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Eat the Woods: Mushroom Foraging Hike at Silver Springs State Fish and Wildlife Area, Yorkville IL

  • Silver Springs State Fish and Wildlife Area (map)

Join Chicagoland's only full time professional forager Dave Odd for a hike through Silver Springs State Fish and Wildlife Area to learn about all the wild and wonderful edible and medicinal mushrooms and plants that grow there. Guaranteed to see at least 50 different species! Mushrooms should be popping with chanterelles, oyster, and chicken of the woods season in full swing.

We will be hiking a few miles throughout the day so bring appropriate shoes, gear, etc and pack snacks.

Meet on the north side of the Loon Lake parking lot. Map here

https://maps.app.goo.gl/t3EtuZPaaaQritdy7

$50 per person, $90 per couple/pair. Group and family rates available, contact Dave Odd 847-409-8623 by text or phone for info.

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Earlier Event: September 15
Eat the Parks: Dawes Park Evanston
Later Event: September 22
The Land of Odd Fall Bioblitz