Stone Barns is a great place for mushrooms. With enough rain beforehand, we might find gourmet fall species, such as chicken mushrooms, hen-of-the-woods, honey mushrooms, pear-shaped puffballs, gem-studded puffballs, oyster mushrooms, enoki mushrooms, and blewits. And each species has its own special flavor.

This is the only season for nuts, again species you can't buy. We'll hunt for white oak acorns, shagbark hickory nuts, and black walnuts, all delicious raw or in any recipe that calls for nuts.

Wild herbs and greens will also be thriving in fields and disturbed habitats. We'll look for lamb's-quarters (a wild spinach), ground ivy, wood sorrel, sheep sorrel, poor man's pepper, field pennycress, watercress, wintercress, hedge mustard, and Asiatic dayflower. In addition, we'll be finding culinary and medicinal herbs such as black birch, yarrow, sassafras, mullein, and spicebush leaves and berries.