Your Wildest Foods

Your Wildest Foods is brought to you by our friend Matt McAllister, known to us as “Mushroom Matt.” One day, Matt showed up at our door, sharing news of his foraging and we could not turn him away! A Father of four, Matt’s foraging comes with passion, and a vast knowledge of mushrooms with a wide range of places he picks. Matt is so pursuant of mushrooms, fiddleheads, nettles, and more, that he invests significant travel time to locations he hopes to forage. By that, we’re talking 5 hour car rides to sleep in his car overnight, to then drive back down and deliver his findings! 

Matt's reliability has been invaluable to The Acorn. Knowing his mushrooms are top quality add a special element to our dishes. We can’t express just how much we love working with Matt, and how much our relationship has grown over the years. Matt picks clean, and his process is very respectful to the Indigenous and Crown lands he seeks permission to forage.