Mushrooms & sauerkraut

OCTOBER 2025

Baskets full of Saffron Milk Caps! (Iveta Leitase)

Canberra, Australia

Iveta Leitase in Canberra, Australia, tells how she discovered her perfect “mushroom spot” — a pine forest near Canberra where many saffron milk caps grow. It turns out that in Australia, the worms don’t eat these mushrooms!

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