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Born on a farm near Bela-Bela, Kelly Gottschalk\u2019s family moved to the sleepy picturesque village of Sabie when she was 13, and it was there that the seed of what was to become a lifelong passion was planted.<\/h4>\n
It was in Sabie that Kelly befriended an old hippie dude who introduced her to fungi. \u201cI was fascinated. There was just so much to learn and Sabie was the perfect place. The climate, the forests \u2026 an ideal place for mushrooms,\u201d she smiles. At the age of 18, Kelly started her travels abroad and soon forgot all about them.<\/p>\nKelly Gottschalk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Years later, she returned to the misty mountainous region and her obsession with mushies started in earnest. \u201cMy little boy, Slade, and I left Sabie and moved to Cape Town. One day, while we were swimming in the river, I noticed a few mushrooms growing under a tree,\u201d she says. \u201cA closer look revealed Boletus, the same ones my hippie friend had introduced me to. I picked what I could and they became that night\u2019s dinner.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kelly returned to the area the following day and noticed a host of other mushrooms as well. \u201cThere were small ones, big ones, colourful ones and oddly shaped ones. That is where it \nall started. I absolutely had to know their names and what they could be used for, if at all.\u201d Kelly snapped a few pics and posted her finds on a local mushroom identification group, \nlaughing as she says that she really isn\u2019t very good at remembering names. \u201cActually, I\u2019m not good at remembering anything, and yet I was remembering these Latin binomials as though my life depended on it.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
Kelly moved back to Sabie seven years ago. Her day job consisted of managing a guest house, and she spent every lunch hour racing to the forest to hunt for mushrooms. \u201cAfter \nwhat felt like 10 minutes, I would get a phone call saying that my one-hour lunch break was up over an hour ago. I had emails to attend to, guests to welcome in and issues to resolve, and I\u2019d been gone for over two hours.\u201d After five years of living a double life, Kelly finally cracked. She couldn\u2019t be kept away from her dream any longer, so she ditched her job and committed herself full-time to mushies.<\/p>\n
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Kelly\u2019s time was taken up with constant mushroom hunting, taking pics of them and\u00a0 identifying and researching the fungi, and after a while she came across like-minded folk, people who loved mushrooms as much as she did. They started up the Mycological Societies, born from four people in four different provinces who wanted to share their passion, as well as learn, teach, explore and document their finds.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe got in touch with a professor at the University of the Orange Free State, to whom we send all our weird and wonderful specimens. She then gets her students to sequence each \nindividual mushroom, and in so doing South Africa now has an official species list for fungi! It\u2019s an ever-growing project, but I\u2019m so proud to have been a part of something so important.\u201d Kelly adds that they also supplied many of the photos of the new SA Mushroom \nField Guide.<\/p>\n
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After having spent time collecting various species for sequencing, she decided to turn her attention to edible mushrooms. She found that on many occasions she had picked too many to consume at one sitting, so began drying them. \u201cI had drying mushrooms everywhere,\u201d Kelly laughs. \u201cAt one stage my kitchen was so overcrowded with preserve jars that my mum commented on it becoming a health risk. This is how Foraged – Gourmet Forest began.\u201d She explains that she is a forest witch, not a corporate queen, and as such has found it extremely difficult to get her business off the ground at times. She decided to add tours to her itinerary, along with the foraged goods, which involves tagging along with her through the forest undergrowth on one of her daily escapades, searching for mushrooms.<\/p>\n
Kelly\u2019s boys, Slade (seven), and Kaleb (five), love these adventures. This proud mum describes her eldest as a barefooted, wild-haired, unafraid little boy who catches snakes\u00a0 and loves to show anyone who\u2019s around what he\u2019s found. She smiles as she recalls one particular incident. \u201cWe once had a bunch of German tourists yelling and sprinting off in all directions after Slade had shown them a dead green snake he was holding by the tail. This really bugged him as he couldn\u2019t figure out why such a fiasco was being made about his cool little find. He likes to think we are all brave and that we all have a good heart.\u201d<\/p>\nBrave young Slade<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Kaleb, Kelly explains, is feisty and temperamental. He questions everything, and needs answers now. \u201cOne of his first words was \u2018Termitomyces\u2019, although he said it more like\u00a0 ‘pitomyceeees\u2019,\u201d she laughs, \u201cand he\u2019s corrected a few people with their Latin pronunciations, sometimes even correcting their IDs. And he is not interested in learning a mushroom\u2019s common name. He rolls his eyes at me and then insists I tell him the name I use. Witches Butter or Glistening Ink Cap just doesn\u2019t cut it for him.\u201d<\/p>\nFeisty little Kaleb<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
There are so many fascinating and remarkable traits about mushrooms that Kelly could write several books on the topic. She covers what she can on her tours, but by the end of the day feels as if she hasn\u2019t even scratched the surface. \u201cThere are bioluminescent mushrooms, the mushrooms they found in a Chernobyl nuclear reactor eating the radiation, and those they\u2019ve found that can break down plastics. There are cordyceps that zombify their host insect, and fungi that strangle trees while others hollow them out. There are ink caps that deliquesce into ink with which our forefathers wrote with a quill. Others that are toxic when consumed with alcohol, but harmless if not. Not to mention the symbiotic relations they form with various plants and animals, such as the termites that farm with Termitomyces mushroom spores. Neither can live without the other. There is also the stoned ape theory of monkeys in the savannah eating magic mushrooms that eventually was the cause of a cognitive revolution.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kelly\u2019s passion is quite contagious, and the idea of grabbing a basket and rushing off into the forests to forage for mushrooms is ever so appealing. We are fortunate to live in an area prolific with these wonderful marvels of nature, and what better time to go outside, get some fresh mountain air, and find out more about Mother Earth and her incredible mushrooms.<\/p>\n
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