No mushroom hunting adventure is more exciting than the hunt for morels, and he who hunts the morel, this magnificent mushroom, is a very special person. In order to succeed, he is prepared to do what other mushroom gatherers don´t even think of.
This is a strange mushroom which likes the places that the other members of its family do not like, and is gathered with great passion and with a certain inexplicable feeling verging with sensuality. Every gatherer has his own secret hunting grounds which he guards jealously.
Spring is the season which makes the hunter feel restless, and as soon as he feels the time has come, off he goes, for if he is only a few days too late there will be nothing to find. It is a true pleasure to join the mushroom gatherers of Me?imurje or Gorski kotar, who organize traditional events and compete for the “Golden Morel”, i.e. the largest and most beautiful specimen. Last year, the first prize was won by a 43cm high morel of 600g, found around Delnice.
One of the ways of conserving these mushrooms is drying them.