Where to Find Wild Gathered Chanterelle Mushrooms?

There's a new Farmers Market in Lakewood: every Saturday starting this Saturday from 8AM to noon.

It was several years ago, and Friend Mary had given me her old pasta maker... but I'd never used it. So we planned a day when I would seek out some Chanterelle mushrooms, swing by and pick up Friend Mary and we'd head home to Long Beach to make hand made ravioli with the most flavorful of all mushrooms.

It certainly was the best ravioli ever! Every savory bite bursting with flavor. Wild harvested Chanterelles are not easy to find here in Southern California, but I'd heard that the Santa Monica Farmers' Market was the best place to go and sure enough, it was where I found them.

Whether wild harvested Chanterelles will show up at the new Lakewood Mall Farmers' Market, run by the same folks who run the Santa Monica Farmers' Market is a good question, and one that may not be answered until September, when they are back in season.

I imagine that the market will draw from a wide area of healthy-eating foodies, not just Lakewood, and perhaps not even just Long Beach. It will be a destination that supplements the many local Long Beach farmers' markets (rather than replace them).

As for me, I'm not looking for the organic fruit and vegetables, the grass fed beef and lamb or even the fresh seafood.

What I'm thinking I want to do is find a lot of little local places that make cookies and marketable products. I wonder if Primal Alchemy's amazing cookies (I tasted them at Viento Y Agua over Spring Break) will be found at the Lakewood Farmers' Market? I wonder if they will make their way back to Santa Monica? Maybe they already are...

Only time will tell. And I'm happy that when I'm looking for those hard-to-get Chanterelles, I won't have to go all the way to Santa Monica to get them.

Trish Tsoi-A-Sue is a creative facilitator in the Long Beach area. Certified in LEGO® Serious Play, she is the President of ETES Inc, and creator of Makersville, a community of makers. Trish is the Ambassador for the Long Beach LEGO® User Group, a group of AFOLs and Teen Fans of LEGO® (TFOLs). Join our facebook group! Some of her random experiences are recorded on her You Tube channel, Squigglemom! Please subscribe! She often writes about LEGO® , her birth country of Trinidad and about Makers and Making things. She's making a parade of Makers, and would love to find someone who makes something edible to share what they do with her group!