Wild About Mushrooms
Spawned in 1998 by Charmoon Richardson, the Wild About Mushrooms Co. is dedicated to spreading the joys of wild and exotic mushrooms to the world and Sonoma County, the home of Wild About Mushrooms, is blessed with a variety of mushroom habitats and a long fruiting season for choice edible fungi. Amongst the hundreds of varieties that are found in our area are golden chanterelles, King boletes (porcini), matsutake, shaggy manes, black trumpets, the Prince, hedgehogs, coccoli, oysters, milk caps, candy caps, russulas, and many more.- As a culinary enthusiast, Charmoon works with both restaurants & wineries in Northern California, creating unique mushroom themed events. He won first prize at the annual John Ash-KSRO Recipe Contest, when the theme ingredient was mushrooms. He is a past board member of the Sonoma County Culinary Guild, a organization of food professionals. He also had the privilege of working for author MFK Fisher for a number of years.