Fungi expert leads Gitigaan foraging class

Fungi expert leads Gitigaan foraging class

CLOQUET — The Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa’s Gitigaan Program’s Spring Series continued with a class on identifying and foraging one of the Northland’s most daunting wild foods: mushrooms. Local mushroom foraging expert Ariel Bonkoski, owner of the Duluth-based Ariel’s Mushroom Co., walked the packed room on how to identify common edible mushrooms known to grow in the north woods on Tuesday. “Mushrooms are my whole life,” Bonkoski …