, morels grow wild during the best time of the year. The only way to get them—if you don’t want to pay a lot of money—is to find them and pick them yourself. But, the morel’s hollow stem and pitted ...

Field care can start with picking. Some morel hunters slice the stems, or pinch them to leave some in the ground, on the theory that leaving the mycelium (the “root”) helps more grow. It doesn’t help, ...