The colonnade was crowded with peasant women selling mushrooms and other delicacies.

For now, foraging remains a fairly low-profile pursuit, and selling wild mushrooms an even more specialized one.

"There was only one health-food store that sold really deadly mushrooms, but it stopped years ago when it turned out they weren't organically grown."

Selling mushrooms by the roadside, a common career path here, was not quite what Yuri Dobrovolsky had in mind.

It will sell white, black and summer truffles; fresh wild mushrooms and truffle and mushroom products.

'Train rangers and educate the local community, set up social enterprises selling organic mushrooms and forest honey.'

Gourmet Garage also sells exotic mushrooms, salad greens, berries and so forth retail.

Hans Johansson, who sells wild mushrooms to Manhattan restaurants, buys by the nose.

Many of the local people who sell mushrooms on a small scale blame the commercial pickers for the damage to the forests.

I'm tired of selling magic mushrooms to a bunch of bikers and aging hippes, anyway.