On the hunt: Lithuanians race to pick wild mushrooms
VARENA, Lithuania (AP) " Hundreds of Lithuanians ran around with baskets and buckets Saturday in a southeastern pine forest.Why you ask? It's the national championship of wild mushroom picking " a competition always held on the last Saturday in September.That's when conditions are "not too dry, not too wet, the humidity is perfect," explained mushroom hunter Janina Juodine.A rainy, relatively warm summer created ideal conditions for the foraging festival in Lithuania, [...]
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