Just look at all the Chanterelles growing IN OUR YARD!!!  With all the rain lately, they are popping up all over.  

 

My National Audubon Society Field Guide to Mushrooms describes Chanterelles as some of the most delicious wild mushrooms, and they grow on the ground under oaks and conifers.  It also warns of a poisonous look-alike, the toxic Jack O'Lantern.  We have read the descriptions of them, and compared pictures, and we are sure that these are Chanterelles.  We've picked a lot already, and have eaten them with our green beans and on pizzas.

 

Please do not use my picture to identify mushrooms you find in the wild.  Do your own research, and positively identify what you find before you cook and eat anything.  Foraging is not the safest hobby sometimes, but it can be great fun with the right guides.  

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!