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<blockquote data-quote="Big Package" data-source="post: 2944501" data-attributes="member: 67494">I hunt mushrooms up and down WA/OR during their respective seasons. These go to farmers markets or restaurants. I sell spores and photographs to mycology websites. Sometimes I&#039;ll sell spore photographs too.Off spores alone I make about 3k last two weeks of Nov and again the last two weeks of Feb. Photographs go 100 a piece, and the further out I go for oddball species I&#039;m thinking of raising rates to 250/per this year. The mountains aren&#039;t getting easier as I get older and not many others do it.Really no overhead which is nice. In the right seasons I can live off berries and flowers and fungi, so no having to buy dinner. Typically I&#039;ll eat the ones that aren&#039;t &quot;food safe&quot; by Chef or market standards - which are super strict here and for good reason. Sometimes this means going from WA mountains to swoop back down to PDX and work my way up again. Walking is free. Only have to cover the gas.Made 10k last fall while being a driver helper. It only took four trips to fulfill my spore orders and I went again to get a few hundred more on hand.And no I don&#039;t do anything illegal.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Big Package, post: 2944501, member: 67494"] I hunt mushrooms up and down WA/OR during their respective seasons. These go to farmers markets or restaurants. I sell spores and photographs to mycology websites. Sometimes I'll sell spore photographs too. Off spores alone I make about 3k last two weeks of Nov and again the last two weeks of Feb. Photographs go 100 a piece, and the further out I go for oddball species I'm thinking of raising rates to 250/per this year. The mountains aren't getting easier as I get older and not many others do it. Really no overhead which is nice. In the right seasons I can live off berries and flowers and fungi, so no having to buy dinner. Typically I'll eat the ones that aren't "food safe" by Chef or market standards - which are super strict here and for good reason. Sometimes this means going from WA mountains to swoop back down to PDX and work my way up again. Walking is free. Only have to cover the gas. Made 10k last fall while being a driver helper. It only took four trips to fulfill my spore orders and I went again to get a few hundred more on hand. And no I don't do anything illegal. [/QUOTE]

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