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Two Spanish hunters of mushrooms,Joakim Cunill and Luis Casanovas, found themselves in the Greek forests that were burned by the terrible fire that occurred during 2007. They were searching for a rare eatable type, which sprouts only in the ash. Following them, we understood the uncontrollable force of nature. Ten months afterwards the absolute destruction of August, it was full of fruits, as long as you had eyes to see them.
Text: ©Yorgos Xepapadakos
Photographs: © Maro Kouri

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MUSHROOM SAFARIN IN BURNED GREECE In the burned mountains of Ileia prefecture, villages Smerna, Artemida and Makisto. With a basket in one hand and with the pocketknife in the other, Joakim Cunill explains that the enormous quantities of ash, change soil's ph so that the burned trunks function as fertilizer from magnesium and carbonic calcium, inactivate the natural acidity of soil & having as a result, comestible mushroom that we searh & that previously could not be bared, to sprout. Mushroom safari in burned Greece © Maro Kouri MUSHROOM SAFARIN IN BURNED GREECE Two of the most famous professional collectors - experts of wild mushrooms seek an infrequent species of mushroom that sprouts only in burned pinewoods. They collaborate with vertically organized units of packing and partnerships, they supply the best restaurants of Barcelona, & they export them processed in informed cookers of France and Italy Mushroom safari in burned Greece © Maro Kouri MUSHROOM SAFARIN IN BURNED GREECE Where they do not cut the timbers, where they do not make the lumberjacks dykes, Morchella mushroom will come out also the next year. Mushroom safari in burned Greece © Maro Kouri MUSHROOM SAFARIN IN BURNED GREECE The price of fresh 'murtseki' mushroom, exceeds of 100€ per kilo in the first screening and under favorable conditions, an individual can gather up to 60 kilos per day. Mushroom safari in burned Greece © Maro Kouri MUSHROOM SAFARIN IN BURNED GREECE Where they do not cut the timbers, where they do not make the lumberjacks dykes, Morchella mushroom will come out also the next year. Mushroom safari in burned Greece © Maro Kouri MUSHROOM SAFARIN IN BURNED GREECE Two of the most famous professional collectors - experts of wild mushrooms seek an infrequent species of mushroom that sprouts only in burned pinewoods. They collaborate with vertically organized units of packing and partnerships, they supply the best restaurants of Barcelona, & they export them processed in informed cookers of France and Italy Mushroom safari in burned Greece © Maro Kouri 571 © Maro Kouri MUSHROOM SAFARIN IN BURNED GREECE The price of fresh 'murtseki' mushroom, exceeds of 100€ per kilo in the first screening and under favorable conditions, an individual can gather up to 60 kilos per day. Mushroom safari in burned Greece © Maro Kouri MUSHROOM SAFARIN IN BURNED GREECE Where they do not cut the timbers, where they do not make the lumberjacks dykes, Morchella mushroom will come out also the next year. Mushroom safari in burned Greece © Maro Kouri MUSHROOM SAFARIN IN BURNED GREECE Where they do not cut the timbers, where they do not make the lumberjacks dykes, Morchella mushroom will come out also the next year. Mushroom safari in burned Greece © Maro Kouri MUSHROOM SAFARIN IN BURNED GREECE Two of the most famous professional collectors - experts of wild mushrooms seek an infrequent species of mushroom that sprouts only in burned pinewoods. They collaborate with vertically organized units of packing and partnerships, they supply the best restaurants of Barcelona, & they export them processed in informed cookers of France and Italy Mushroom safari in burned Greece © Maro Kouri MUSHROOM SAFARIN IN BURNED GREECE Two of the most famous professional collectors - experts of wild mushrooms seek an infrequent species of mushroom that sprouts only in burned pinewoods. They collaborate with vertically organized units of packing and partnerships, they supply the best restaurants of Barcelona, & they export them processed in informed cookers of France and Italy Mushroom safari in burned Greece © Maro Kouri MUSHROOM SAFARIN IN BURNED GREECE In the burned mountains of Ileia prefecture, villages Smerna, Artemida and Makisto. With a basket in one hand and with the pocketknife in the other, Joakim Cunill explains that the enormous quantities of ash, change soil's ph so that the burned trunks function as fertilizer from magnesium and carbonic calcium, inactivate the natural acidity of soil & having as a result, comestible mushroom that we searh & that previously could not be bared, to sprout. Mushroom safari in burned Greece © Maro Kouri MUSHROOM SAFARIN IN BURNED GREECE Two of the most famous professional collectors - experts of wild mushrooms seek an infrequent species of mushroom that sprouts only in burned pinewoods. They collaborate with vertically organized units of packing and partnerships, they supply the best restaurants of Barcelona, & they export them processed in informed cookers of France and Italy Mushroom safari in burned Greece © Maro Kouri
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