WMS Tri-County Foray

11/16/2025

Samuel Thayer uses all of his knowledge and skills each year for Tri-County Foray. We are so thrilled to call him one of our partners. This was part of his plant walk 2025.

11/08/2025

If this wasn't the best Tri-County Foray, then it was darned close! 2025 was excellent. Many mushroom species found, and so many things learned.

11/08/2025

A favorite memory of Tri-County 2025. Final day, and Brennan pulls up and does a clown car trick with Hen of the Woods.

07/16/2025

This Tri-County Foray is going to be one of our best events ever! If you have been meaning to attend one of our events, NOW is the time! We have amazing additions this year.

Learn more and register Here!
https://www.wisconsinmycologicalsociety.org/tricountyforay.html

07/14/2025

Campers rejoice! WMS Tri-County Foray is a beautiful event in the northwestern part of Wisconsin where you get to stay at the scenic campground called Eagle Point in quaint Cumberland, WI.

The event includes guided nature hikes where we discuss mushrooms and plant ID and edibility, and tree identification. We also have Food cooking demos and tastings, 2 gourmet, sit-down dinners, lectures from experts, a salt-packing workshop, a UV night hike, mushroom cultivation demonstrations, and a focus on science! Kids are also welcome at this event. Ready to meet the friendliest group of people you can imagine? Join us!

Camping is included in the cost of the event, and at less than 200 dollars per person, this event is a great value!

Learn more or sign up here:
https://www.wisconsinmycologicalsociety.org/tricountyforay.html

07/13/2025

Exploring Wild Foods is the best part of the Tri-County Foray. And we celebrate that by having a cooking demo by two amazing chefs -Chris Gavin, and Chad Hyatt and by having lots of our own participants bring in wild foods that they have created in their own foraging journeys.

Sing up or learn more here:
https://www.wisconsinmycologicalsociety.org/tricountyforay.html

The Wild Foods Potluck has had so many incredible creations in the past including mushroom pate, ramp butter on homemade bread, black trumpet cream sauce on pasta, queen Anne's lace jelly, mullberry syrup, Venison cheddar jalapeno sausages, hassenfeffer, shrubs, and many more wonderful delights brought in by our particpants. Last year many people said that was their favorite part of the foray, so if you are keen on trying culinary delights, then join us and see what our members are cooking up this year and bring your appetites!

With camping included at less than 200 dollars per person for three nights and 2 days, this event is a huge value!

07/12/2025

Exploring Wild Foods is the best part of the Tri-County Foray. And we celebrate that by having a cooking demo by an amazing chef named Chris Gavin, and by having lots of our own participants bring in wild foods that they have created in their own foraging journeys.

Sing up or learn more here:
https://www.wisconsinmycologicalsociety.org/tricountyforay.html

The Wild Foods Potluck has had so many incredible creations in the past including mushroom pate, ramp butter on homemade bread, black trumpet cream sauce on pasta, queen Anne's lace jelly, mullberry syrup, Venison cheddar jalapeno sausages, hassenfeffer, shrubs, and many more wonderful delights brought in by our particpants. Last year many people said that was their favorite part of the foray, so if you are keen on trying culinary delights, then join us and see what our members are cooking up this year and bring your appetites!
With camping included at less than 200 dollars per person for three nights and 2 days, this event is a huge value!

07/11/2025

Tri-County Foray wants you to meet our presenters! Introducing Chad Hyatt! Chad was part of the foray several years ago and was extremely popular, we are so glad the stars aligned and our schedules lined up this year to bring him BACK!
Chad Hyatt is a classically trained chef that has spent more than a decade working in restaurants and private clubs around the San Francisco Bay Area. You may already know that Chad released an innovative wild mushroom cookbook titled, The Mushroom Hunter’s Kitchen. He spends his free time hunting for and learning about mushrooms, along with seeking out new techniques and traditional ethnic recipes to apply to them and share them with us! Chad frequently demos and teaches wild mushroom cookery at private and public events, does wild mushroom pop-up dinners, and We are getting hungry just thinking about his fantastic creations!
Check our page to view the full list of the most trusted names in Wisconsin Foraging, who will be joining us as leaders on our foray in late August!

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Remember this event will have group forays during the day, exploring the gorgeous land in Barron, Burnett, Washburn counties, lectures will be given for all skill levels to enhance the knowledge of all attendees, cooking demos, exciting UV hikes at night, and a beautiful catered sit-down mushroom gourmet meal.

Learn more or register here:
https://www.wisconsinmycologicalsociety.org/tricountyforay.html

07/09/2025

Meet Sam Thayer! Sam is going to be leading our VIP Plant Walk this year at the WMS Tri-County Foray. Sam is one of the world's foremost authorities on foraging edible plants. He has led our plant walks the past few years and makes each one of them totally different and new. He is also a world reknown author of books on foraging -enthusiastic and energetic and entirely entertaining. If you would like to join Sam on our plant walk, join us at the Tri-County Foray! Camp sites are included, and we have an amazing lineup this year!
Click here to sign up now and learn more:
https://www.wisconsinmycologicalsociety.org/tricountyforay.html

07/08/2025

08/06/2024

Some highlights from thus past weekend