Once situated at a motel in Kane, I called the lovely Cat (http://www.thecatseye.biz) with whom I had made plans to go foraging. We agreed to meet at her house the next day and she would take me to some of her sites.
So I drove to her house the next morning, where I was fed a great breakfast and then I was taken to dig leeks and wild onions, and pick fiddlehead ferns. The fiddleheads do not taste quite as good as the ones that grow farther north. However, the wild onions were a great surprise. They were mild and tender, albeit a lot of work because they are so small and hard to clean. Cat fed me supper, using some of the woodland treasures we harvested.
We also looked for chaga and investigated a few small apple “orchards” for morels. I have never seen a morel in McKean CO, PA, and I probably never will.
Cat picking ramps.
Eatmore T. picking fiddleheads.
Eatmore T., posting more than a month after the fact.