abundant porcini mushrooms as autumn approaches

It is a pleasure that announces the fall. Explore the forest in search of porcini mushrooms. And today, the harvest is quite good. In a few hours, the basket fills up. These two friends came for the day from Montélimar (Drôme). He has a keen and trained eye. For a week, Serge Ollier has been spending his days in the woods. He will not show us his favorite corners, but just a place as a demonstration.

We are on the Ardèche mountain plateau, just over 1,000 meters above sea level. The first mushrooms appeared after the thunderstorms at the end of August. In Saint-Cirgues-en-Montagne (Ardèche), the collectors follow one another, at Patrice Ceyte. He is a mushroom collector. He buys the porcini mushrooms, then resells them to wholesalers or restaurants. Ceps in abundance, after the dry and very hot summer, it was almost unexpected.